Natural Resources Management

To qualify for the MNRM degree, the candidate must satisfactorily complete a minimum of 32 semester credits of course work in his/her selected curriculum, and an oral presentation based on an NRM topic of the candidate’s choice.

To qualify for the M.S. degree, the candidate must satisfactorily complete a minimum of 30 semester units in his/her selected curriculum, an oral examination, and a thesis or comprehensive study paper.

To qualify for the Ph.D. degree, the candidate must satisfactorily complete a course of study of no less than 90 semester credits (including 30 semester credits from the M.S. degree or equivalent), both a written and an oral preliminary examination, a research-based dissertation, and an oral defense of the dissertation. In addition, the candidate presents final public seminar based on the dissertation research. For more specific information, please refer to the Natural Resources Management Graduate Student Guidelines available on the NRM Web site.

NRM program courses are offered by NRM and the other participating academic units. These include:

  • Agribusiness and Applied Economics
  • Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
  • Agricultural Systems Management
  • Anthropology
  • Biology
  • Botany
  • Civil Engineering
  • Communication
  • Computer Science
  • Economics
  • Entomology
  • Geosciences
  • Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
  • Mathematics
  • Microbiological Sciences
  • Philosophy
  • Plant Pathology
  • Plant Sciences
  • Political Science
  • Range Science
  • Sociology
  • Soil Science
  • Statistics
  • Zoology

Adnan Akyuz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor/Climatologist
University of Missouri-Columbia, 1994

Francis Casey, Ph.D.
Professor of Soil Science
Iowa State University, 2000

Amitava Chatterjee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Soil Science
University of Wyoming, 2007

Larry J. Cihacek, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Soil Science
Iowa State University, 1979

Dennis Cooley, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
University of Rochester, 1995

Edward (Shawn) DeKeyser, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Range Science
North Dakota State University, 2000

Tom DeSutter, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Soil Science
Kansas State University, 2004

Gary A. Goreham, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
South Dakota State University, 1985

Christina Hargiss, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Natural Resources Management
North Dakota State University, 2009

Robert Hearne, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics
University of Minnesota, 1995

Xinhua Jia, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
University of Arizona, 2004

Chiwon W. Lee, Ph.D.
Professor of Plant Sciences
Purdue University, 1977

Wei Lin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Buffalo, 1992

Zhulu Lin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering
University of Georgia, 2003

Rodney G. Lym
Professor of Plant Sciences
University of Wyoming, 1979

Mark Andrew Meister, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Communication
University of Nebraska, 1997

Jack E. Norland, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Natural Resources Management
North Dakota State University, 2008

G. Padmanabhan, Ph.D.
Professor of Civil Engineering,
Purdue University, 1980

Deirdre Prischmann-Voldseth, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Entomology
Washington State University, 2005

David A. Rider, Ph.D.
Professor of Entomology
Louisiana State University, 1988

David Ripplinger, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Agribusiness and Applied Economics
North Dakota State University, 2012

David Roberts, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Agribusiness and Applied Economics
Oklahoma State University, 2009

Kevin Sedivec, Ph.D.
Professor of Range Science
North Dakota State University, 1994

Halis Simsek, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering
North Dakota State University, 2012

Dean D. Steele, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
University of Minnesota, 1991

Joseph D. Zeleznik
Extension Forester
Michigan State University, 2001