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 efforts have been organized into centers and laboratories that have multidisciplinary faculty memberships. Examples include: the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center; Terrestrial Wildlife Ecology Laboratory; Environmental and Social Sustainability Lab; and Forest Ecosystem Restoration and Ecology Lab. 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
- Rural and environmental sociology
- Rural-Urban interface food production
- Coupled human and nautral systems
Facilities include managed field sites at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster, Ohio, and at nine outlying stations; classrooms, laboratories and offices in Kottman and Parker Halls on the Columbus campus and laboratories and offices in Williams and Hayden Halls on the Wooster campus; and the 30-acre Schiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Park on the banks of the Olentangy River in Columbus.
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