The Landscape Ecology Program provides opportunities
for graduate students to be trained in the field of landscape ecology
and related disciplines. Note, UMass does not offer a degree in
landscape ecology' per se. Rather, the landscape ecology program
is an unofficial program of study within the
Department
of Natural Resources Conservation. The graduate degree conferred
is in either Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation (WFCON) or Forestry
and Wood Technology (FOR). Alternatively, students may earn a graduate
degree in
Organismic and
Evolutionary Biology (OEB) if accepted into this interdepartmental
and multidisciplinary graduate program.
The Program periodically accepts both Master's and Doctoral degree candidates,
as well as post-docs. Positions are entirely contingent on availability
of extramural funding and/or teaching teaching assistantship. Most students
are supported exclusively on research assistantships, and their research
program is, in part, dictated by the conditions of the research grant
or contract under which the assistant is being provided.