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How to Apply| Faculty Member | Title | Interests |
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Professor | Forest ecology, production, restoration, and biogeochemistry |
| Indy Burke | Professor | Biogeochemistry, ecosystem ecology, and pedagogical techniques |
| Tony Cheng | Assistant Professor | Participatory, collaborative planning and implementation approaches; the inter-relationship between governmental, non-profit, and for-profit organizations as emergent institutional arrangements; the interplay between local institutional arrangements and national policy |
| R. Dennis Child | Professor | Range ecology, range planning, natural resource policy, systems ecology |
| Steven Fassnacht | Assistant Professor | Snow hydrology, hydrologic modeling, snowpack mapping, hydrological data assimilation, sediment transport modeling, channel stability studies |
| Maria Fernandez-Gimenez | Assistant Professor | Ecological and social dimensions of wildland ecosystems, focusing primarily on rangelands including community-based and collaborative natural resource management; traditional and local ecological knowledge; pastoralism and pastoral development; participatory research |
| Stephanie Kampf | Assistant Professor | Physical hydrology, land-atmosphere interactions, hydrologic modeling, watershed management |
| Julia Klein | Assistant Professor | Grassland, shrubland, and alpine plant community and ecosystem ecology; rangeland ecology and management; global change, biodiversity, and sustainability science |
| Rick Knight | Professor | Management of birds, conservation biology |
| Melinda Laituri | Associate Professor | Cultural geography; environmental equity, risk, and hazards; geographic information systems |
| Bill Lauenroth | Professor | Shortgrass steppe, rehabilitation of disturbances, blue grama seeding and disturbance |
| Michael Lefsky | Assistant Professor | Remote sensing, lidar remote sensing |
| Lee MacDonald | Professor | Land use hydrology, monitoring, wetlands, cumulative effects |
| Kurt Mackes | Assistant Professor | Forestry operations, wood utilization & marketing, and bioenergy derived from woody biomass |
| Paul Meiman | Assistant Professor | Ecology and management of rangelands, invasive plant ecology and management |
| Mark Paschke | Assistant Professor | Restoration and ecology of disturbed ecosystems, soil and rhizosphere biology, ecology of invasive plant species, nitrogen biogeochemistry, biology of Frankia and actinorhizal plants, ecology of plant-microbe interactions |
| Robin Reich | Professor | Forest biometrics and spatial statistics |
| Doug Rideout | Professor | Wildfire: Economics of initial attack, economics of prescribed burning and fuels management, interagency strategic planning and fire policy. Timber: Timber sale contracting, forest investment analysis, timber supply and demand. Analysis of the timber industry in public forestry |
| Roy Roath | Associate Professor | Extension specialist, grazing management, rangeland monitoring |
| Monique Rocca | Assistant Professor | Forest fire management, plant community ecology, landscape ecology, spatial analysis, ecological restoration |
| Bill Romme | Professor | Fire effects on communities and ecosystems, fire history, landscape dynamics, vegetation patterns |
| Frederick "Skip" Smith | Professor | Ecology of forest productivity and silviculture of forest stands for multiple outputs |
| John Stednick | Professor | Water quality, biogeochemistry, watershed management |
| Yu Wei | Assistant Professor | Developing and implementing operations research models to integrate economic, ecology and social concerns in forest ecosystem management and planning |
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STEP 2: Order GRE Scores (all applicants) & TOEFL or IELTS Scores (if applicable)
An official report of your GRE scores is required for all FRWS Graduate Applicants. We only require scores for the GRE General test; it is not necessary to take the GRE subject test. Scores from the aptitude test (verbal plus quantitative) should exceed 1000 for M.S. candidates and 1100 for Ph.D. candidates.
An official report of your TOEFL or IELTS scores is required for all international applicants that are from non-English speaking countries. CSU requires a minimum TOEFL score of 213 (computer based), 550 (paper based), or 80 (internet based) or an IELTS score of 6.0 or better for conditional admission.
Copies of score reports issued to you or another party are not acceptable, but you only need to submit your official scores from ETS to CSU once regardless of the number of programs, departments, or even colleges you are pursuing for admission.
The Education Testing Service, ETS, administers both GRE and TOEFL exams. You may request that your scores be sent to CSU when you take your exam(s). The institution code is 4075 and the department code is 0108. ETS will send your scores to CSU electronically where they will be automatically matched up with your application in the university admissions database. We generally receive your results within 4-6 weeks of your testing date.
If you did not initially request that your scores be sent to CSU, you can order additional reports by contacting ETS. Please see the ETS website (http://www.ets.org/) for more information about ordering reports. ETS will send the reports directly to CSU, but it generally takes 4-6 weeks for the reports to arrive and be processed.
ETS only keeps GRE scores for five years, so in order to have an official report sent to CSU, your scores must be less than five years old. The CSU Graduate School will only accept TOEFL or IELTS scores taken within two years prior to admission.
STEP 3: Collect Application Materials
Begin collecting your application materials. It is imperative that your application packet is complete before sending it to us. Note that application submissions vary slightly depending on whether you are a U.S. citizen or an international applicant.
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Application Packet Checklist: * Two official copies of transcripts from every institution you have attended including institutions where coursework was brief and/or seemingly unrelated to the program(s) you wish to pursue in FRWS * Three letters of recommendation from at least two of the following:
* Statement of Research Interest. Include your long term and educational goals, and how graduate studies will contribute to both. The essay is important for matching student and professor interests. |
Application Packet Checklist: * One official transcript from every institution you have attended including institutions where coursework was brief and/or seemingly unrelated to the program(s) you wish to pursue in FRWS. All transcripts must include a certified translation into English. * Three letters of recommendation from at least two of the following:
* Bibliographic Statement (including a description of your research interests, long and short term goals, and how the graduate program will contribute to both). The statement is important for matching student and professor interests. * Certified proof of financial support, GS Form 3F |
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Once you have gathered all of these documents, send them in one packet to: |
Once you have gathered all of these documents, send them in one packet to: Admissions Office Spruce Hall Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-8020 USA |
STEP 4: Apply Online & Pay Application Fee
Please visit CSU’s Graduate School website at http://graduateschool.colostate.edu to fill out the online application. There is a $50 application fee for each program that you choose to apply to.
When filling out the application, please note that after you pay the $50 fee there is a second part to the application that is also mandatory. Here you will be able to provide contact information for your references, specify the types of financial assistance you are interested in, indicate whether you are applying to the PCMI program, and upload copies of your statement of interest and resume (optional).STEP 5: Follow Up
Maintain contact with any faculty that expressed an interest in working with you. It is a fine line between being proactive and going overboard, so please be mindful of their schedules. If they inform you that they are not accepting graduate students for the semester you wish to begin your program, please explore other options.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is there a form for the letters of reference? No. We recommend that you ask your references to send the letters directly to you in a sealed envelope. Once you have gathered all your application materials, send everything to the appropriate address, including the letters of reference still sealed in their envelopes.
Can I send a photocopy of my transcripts? No, we must have official, original copies of all your transcripts.
Do I need to send transcripts if I didn’t get a degree at the college, if the subject area was unrelated to the program I am applying for, if it was a very long time ago, or if it is a foreign university and difficult to get transcripts from? Yes! We need official transcripts from every institution you have attended, regardless of how long ago it was, how relevant the material studied is to your current interests, and whether or not you completed a degree at that institution. This includes domestic and foreign colleges and universities and community or technical colleges. We do not need copies of your high school transcripts.
How do I get an assistantship? Whether or not you are offered an assistantship is dependent on your advisor. Many faculty will not accept students unless they have funding; others may. When a faculty member offers to serve as your advisor, ask them if they have funding available for an assistantship.
How will I know when my application is complete? Your application will not be evaluated until it is complete. The easiest way to ensure your application is complete is to gather all the supporting documents yourself and send them in one packet to the department. Then apply to CSU on-line, and make sure that ETS and IELTS (if appropriate) are sending your scores to CSU. You will receive two emails from the FRWS Department. The first will be sent when we recieve the on-line application, and it will list any missing application materials. The second will be sent once all of you application materials have been received.
My undergraduate degree is not in natural resources. Can I still be considered for graduate studies in the FRWS Department? Yes! Many of our students come from diverse backgrounds. However, if your undergraduate degree is not in natural resources or a related field, you may need to take more prerequisite courses to compensate.
How can I check on the status of my application? You can send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and ask about the status of your application. You can also check on RamWeb (https://ramweb.colostate.edu/) to see if your ETS/IELTS scores have arrived at CSU yet.
More Questions? Contact Sonya Le Febre, Forest, Rangeland and Watershed Stewardship Department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1472, USA, or email This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .