The Global Change Ecology and Management is a new option designed to prepare students to work effectively as natural resource scientists and managers in a rapidly changing world. We are responding to growing student concern about, and interest in, global change impacts and how society will deal with them. We are recruiting and training a new generation of natural resources leaders ready to address evolving management changes in the face of global change. We offer this new option out of the conviction that there is no area of natural resource science or management that will be unaffected by global change in all its manifestations. The Global Change Ecology and Management (GCEM) program draws on SNRE strengths in the biological, physical, and socio-economic sciences. GCEM class options draw from course offerings within and outside of SNRE, tapping into strengths in this area across the University. Newly developed courses will complement and build on the existing curriculum to provide a strong foundation of knowledge.