Faculty

Gregory Amacher, Ph.D.
Professor

• forest economics & management
• environmental economics

Scott Barrett, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

• forest operations
• logging businesses
• BMPs for water quality

Michael Berry, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

• forest operations
• supply chain optimization
• biomass utilization
• forest business economics

Amy Brunner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

• tree environmental physiology
• functional genomics
• tree phenology & growth

Adam Coates, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

• fire ecology & effects
• silviculture
• restoration ecology

Kelly Cobourn, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

• natural resource economics
• bioeconomic modeling
• water policy 

Carolyn Copenheaver, Ph.D.
Professor

• forest ecology
• dendrochronology
• land-use history  

Hannes De Deurwaerder, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

• tree ecophysiology
• climbing plant ecology (native & invasive)
• tropical forest dynamics
• ecosystem stress responses

Stella Schons DoValle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

• natural resource economics
• development & conservation
• international forest business  

Carrie Fearer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

• forest health
• forest pathology
• invasive species

Shane Furze, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

• Precision Silviculture
• Adaptive Silviculture Strategies
• Digital Soil Mapping
• Forest Productivity Modeling

J.P. Gannon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

• examining streamflow generation
• remotely sensed data

Keith Goyne, Ph.D.
Professor

• soil chemistry
• biogeochemical cycling
• ecosystem ecology

Corey Green, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

• forest biometrics
• forest inventory
• remote sensing

Jason Holliday, Ph.D.
Professor

• evolutionary genomics
• climatic adaptation
• genome-enabled breeding

Ashleigh Kirker, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

• urban hydrology
• land use legacies
• process-based hydrologic modeling
• wetland function and connectivity

John McGee, Ph.D.
Professor

• geospatial extension

Kevin McGuire, Ph.D.
Professor

• hydrology & water resources
• forest watershed management
• catchment biogeochemistry

Daniel McLaughlin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

• ecohydrology
• watershed science
• ecosystem ecology

John Munsell, Ph.D.
Professor

• private land stewardship
• landowner behavior
• agroforestry adoption

Phil Radtke, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

• digital forest modeling
• terrestrial laser scanning (TLS)
• forest inventory & analytics

John Seiler, Ph.D.
Professor

• tree ecophysiology
• dendrology
• carbon cycling

Michael Sorice, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

• human dimensions
• private lands conservation
• natural resources recreation

Marc Stern, Ph.D.
Professor

• social science
• natural resource management
• environmental education

Brian Strahm, Ph.D.
Professor

• soil biogeochemistry
• ecosystem ecology
• carbon & nutrient cycling

Jay Sullivan, Ph.D.
Professor

• forest and resource economics
• forest management and planning
• economics of forest conservation and restoration
  forest landowner incentives and decisions

Quinn Thomas, Ph.D.
Professor

• ecosystem ecology & modeling
• ecological forecasting
• environmental data science

Valerie Thomas, Ph.D.
Professor

• remote sensing
• ecosystem condition & dynamics
• big data

Anja Whittington, Ed.D.
Collegiate Associate Professor

• outdoor/adventure education
• inclusion in the outdoors
• social science

Eric Wiseman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

• urban forest management
• urban forest assessment
• trees in the built environment

Randy Wynne, Ph.D.
Professor

• forest remote sensing
• environmental analytics
• measure, monitor, model