International Research & Extension
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Most areas of the Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources (FER) contribute to an international extension activity or engage in international research on some level. Although we now maintain research partnerships in every region of the world, FER is particularly active in Central and South America.
Many of FER's major international research initiatives take place through extension programs involving global industry or academic partners:
Camcore is a non-profit, international program that works for the conservation of tropical and subtropical forest tree species. Camcore works around the world with industry partners to identify threatened species and collect seeds from them for use in conservation and growth studies, assess genetic diversity to improve methods of conservation, evaluate the adaptability of trees to new locations and develop long-term improvement programs for ensuring the sustainability of resources.
Forest Nutrition Cooperative is a joint venture with Virginia Tech that was founded in 1969 and conducts applied research on forest nutrition, primarily as it relates to pine and eucalyptus species in the South, Argentina, Chile and Columbia. Participating members own and manage over 20 million acres of pine plantations in the southern United States plus 3 million acres of pine and eucalyptus plantations in South America.
Forest Biotechnology is an international research partnership headquartered at NC State that works with partners around the world to promote innovation in basic science in order to advance the application of molecular genetics to forest trees. This mission is implemented through research, scientist training and technology transfer worldwide. The program is led by two of the world’s leading researchers in forest biotechnology, both of them on the faculty of FER: Dr. Vincent Chiang and Dr. Ron Sederoff.
International Forestry and Conservation is a group that promotes international faculty exchanges, student participation in global research projects and courses in relevant topics. It offers research grants to students, and works with a wide variety of worldwide organizations in pursuing such international research topics as tropical forest conservation and economic development and sustainability for developing countries.
The Nicholson Endowment supports faculty and scientist exchange with Sweden, especially SLU. The endowment was established to create a fellowships for Swedish students to pursue doctoral degrees in the Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources at NCSU and for NCSU faculty to go on sabbatical or promote other long-term exchanges between DFER faculty and Swedish institutions.
