PROGRAM:

Food and Resource Economics
University of Florida
PO Box 110240
Gainesville, FL  32611

COORDINATOR:

Chris O. Andrew, Graduate Coordinator

PHONE:

(352) 392-1826 ext. 302

EMAIL:

coandrew@ufl.edu

WWW:

http://www.fred.ifas.ufl.edu

MA_STUDENTS:

58

PHD_STUDENTS:

48

MA_ENTERING_CLASS:

25

PHD_ENTERING_CLASS:

12

PERCENT_WITH_AID:

45

AVERAGE_ANNUAL_STIPEND:

$9,510

PERCENT_ON_TEACH_ASSIST:

2

PERCENT_ON_RES_ASSIST:

98

FACULTY_IN_ENV_RES:

Clyde Kiker, Sherry Larkin, Donna Lee, Ferdinand Wirth, Roy Carriker

FIELD_IN_ENV_RES:

yes

NUMBER_COURSES:

3

NUMBER_OF_MA_PHD:

20

MA_AND_PHD_DEGREES_IN_LAST_3_YEARS:

15

SPECIAL_RESOURCES:

Hydrologic Science Academic Cluster (M.S. & Ph.D.)

Interdisciplinary Ecology (M.S. & Ph.D.)

Environmental Engineering Sciences (M.S. & Ph.D.)

Tropical Conservation and Development Program (M.S & Ph.D.)

Forest Resources and Conservation (M.S. & Ph.D.)

Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (M.S. & Ph.D.)

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (M.S. & Ph.D.)

JOB_PLACEMENTS:

Toben Galvin (M.S.) - NOAA

Tracey Osborne (M.S.) - Environmental Defense Fund

Don Petrella (M.S.) - Self employed

Lowell Pritchard (Ph.D.) - Emory Univ.

Trevor Woollery (Ph.D.) - C.D.C Atlanta

Effie Phillippakos (M.S.) - University of Florida

DISSERTATIONS:

Lowell Pritchard, 1999, Social Dimensions of the Ecological Concept of
Resilience.

Trevor Woollery, 1997, Tropical Forest Depletion: 
Assessing the Forest Products Trade and Economic Influences on the
Foret Area Industrially Logged