Research

The School of Environment and Natural Resources has excellent research initiatives that integrate the natural and social sciences within the context of natural resource use and management for a sustainable environment. The School’s research portfolio includes broad support from federal and state agencies, private industry, and foundations. The annual recurring budget exceeds $5.0 million, with over $2.2 million in additional resources generated through sponsored research. Examples of major research themes include:

• Urban wildlife ecology
• Aquaculture and fisheries management
• Human behavior and decision making in environmental policy
• Carbon sequestration and global climate change
• Forest ecosystem and watershed restoration
• Sustainable agro-ecosystems
• Soil ecology
• Land remediation and by-product utilization
• Wetland and riverine restoration

Facilities include managed field sites at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster, Ohio, and at nine outlying stations; office and laboratory space in Kottman and Parker Halls on the Columbus campus and in Williams and Hayden Halls on the Wooster campus; and the 30-acre Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park on the banks of the Olentangy River in Columbus.