ubc forestry

UBC Forestry

Undergraduate ProgramsDepartments

Forest Sciences• Forest Sciences• International Specialization

Conservation• Science & Management• Global Perspectives

Forest & ConservationSciences

Forestry• Forest Resources Management• Forest Operations

Forest ResourcesManagement

Wood Science• Wood Products Processing

Wood Science

Graduate Programs

Research• PhD• MSc, MASc

Course-based• Master of Forestry• Master of Sustainable

Forest Management• Master of International

Forestry• Master of Geomatics for

Environmental Management

64 Faculty, 920 Undergraduates, 240 Graduates (2015)

UBC Forestry capabilitiesCapability = formal or informal group of scientists active in research and teaching within a given field broadly applicable to the proposed Mountain NCE (grouping not mutually exclusive)

• Climate change impacts and adaptation

• Natural resource conservation• Hydrology / riparian and aquatic ecology• Wildlife ecology• Indigenous forestry• Forest ecology / ecosystem processes• Environmental detection and monitoring• Forest economics and policy• Forest management and silvics• Forest health / disturbance ecology

Forest Insect Disturbance Ecology Lab (FIDEL)Obj: investigate the influence of climate and climate change on the dynamics and impacts of eruptive forest insectse.g. mountain pine beetle, spruce beetle, western spruce budworm

UBC Forestry potential priority contributions• Natural resource conservation• Hydrology• Riparian and aquatic ecology• Wildlife ecology• Indigenous forestry• Forest ecology / ecosystem processes• Environmental detection and monitoring• Forest economics and policy• Forest management and silvics• Forest health / disturbance ecology• Climate change impacts and adaptations