Resource Management

This cutting-edge concentration prepares you to work in habitat restoration, land conservation and management. This concentration also has wide-ranging applications for organizations, companies and cities. Students in this concentration take at least two field-based courses and do a field-based capstone project.

Many graduates with the Resource Management concentration go on to work in land management and conservation positions in government, non-profit, and private organizations.

Student research

Your capstone project is a culmination of your classroom, research and field experiences in the MES program. Your methods and results are unique to your professional and academic goals. Take a look at abstracts by recent MES students with a concentration in Resource Management to understand the breadth of capstone topics and formats.

• Resource Management Abstracts

Every student in the Master of Environmental Studies (MES) program creates a research poster designed to showcase their capstone project. The selection of posters listed below is representative of the range of research projects undertaken by recent students in the Resource Management concentration.

• Wetland and Riparian Invaders: A Guide to Invasive Plants of Southeastern Pennsylvania (PDF) by Aileen Gambecia '08
• Unionville Serpentine Barrens: Analyzing the Relationship Between Soil Profiles and Plant Succession Rate (PDF) by Elizabeth Haegele '11
• An Analysis of Rangeland Preservation in Western States (PDF) by Ian Howell '12
• Evaluating Strategies to Protect Open Space and Slow Sprawl in the Philadelphia Region (PDF) by Paul Lumia '08

Sample Resource Management concentration courses

In the Resource Management concentration, you will choose from a wide variety of courses, from departments and graduate schools across the University. The following list provides some examples of courses that the program has approved for students to take as part of this concentration.