Integrating science and management to understand and sustain
agricultural, horticultural, forest, and wetland ecosystems.
Welcome! Our department
has as its mission the identification and application of ecological
principles that contribute to the sustainable use of ecosystems in a
rapidly changing global environment. Faculty expertise provides a
framework for the study of interactions between biological, chemical and
physical components of agricultural, horticultural, wetlands, forest,
and watershed ecosystems.
We play a key role in interdisciplinary curricula and research projects
involving biogeochemistry, soil science, plant science, sustainable
cropping systems, and invertebrate and microbial ecology. Through its
teaching and research programs in these areas the department addresses
the needs of Maine's natural resource-based industries and contributes
to a knowledge foundation upon which their sustainability can be built.
The department is directly responsible for the B.S. degree in Landscape
Horticulture and Sustainable Agriculture, and its faculty play a pivotal
role through instruction and advising in the Ecology and Environmental
Sciences B.S. program. The department participates in seven graduate
degree programs at both the M.S. and Ph.D. levels.
Landscape Horticulture:
http://www.umaine.edu/lhc/
Sustainable Agriculture:
Sustainable Agriculture Program
Ecology and Environmental Sciences:
http://www.umaine.edu/nrc/