Faculty
Joe Knight
Professor and
Department Head
jfknight@vt.edu
540-232-2052
313 Cheatham Hall
310 West Campus Dr.
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Teaching and Research Faculty
Gregory Amacher
Professor
- forest economics & management
- environmental economics
Mike Aust
Professor
- forest operations
- forestry BMPs
- water quality
Scott Barrett
Associate Professor
- forest operations
- logging businesses
- BMPs for water quality
Michael Berry
Assistant Professor
- forest operations
- supply chain optimization
- biomass utilization
- forest business economics
Amy Brunner
Associate Professor
- tree environmental physiology
- functional genomics
- tree phenology & growth
Adam Coates
Assistant Professor
- fire ecology & effects
- silviculture
- restoration ecology
Kelly Cobourn
Associate Professor
- natural resource economics
- bioeconomic modeling
- water policy
Carolyn Copenheaver
Professor
- forest ecology
- dendrochronology
- land-use history
Stella Schons DoValle
Assistant Professor
- natural resource economics
- development & conservation
- international forest business
Carrie Fearer
Assistant Professor
- forest health
- bioinformatics
- endophytes and the tree microbiome
J.P. Gannon
Associate Professor
- examining streamflow generation
- remotely sensed data
Keith Goyne
Professor
- soil chemistry
- biogeochemical cycling
- ecosystem ecology
Corey Green
Assistant Professor
- Forest biometrics
- Forest inventory
- Remote sensing
Jason Holliday
Professor
- evolutionary genomics
- climatic adaptation
- genome-enabled breeding
Bruce Hull
Professor
- leadership & collaboration
- sustainable development
- society & values
Jeff Marion
Adjunct Professor
- recreation ecology
- visitor impact management
- sustainable recreation
John McGee
Professor
- geospatial extension
Kevin McGuire
Professor
- hydrology & water resources
- forest watershed management
- catchment biogeochemistry
Daniel McLaughlin
Associate Professor
- ecohydrology
- watershed science
- ecosystem ecology
John Munsell
Professor
- private land stewardship
- landowner behavior
- agroforestry adoption
Phil Radtke
Associate Professor
- digital forest modeling
- terrestrial laser scanning (TLS)
- forest inventory & analytics
John Seiler
Professor
- tree ecophysiology
- dendrology
- carbon cycling
Michael Sorice
Associate Professor
- human dimensions
- private lands conservation
- natural resources recreation
Marc Stern
Professor
- social science
- natural resource management
- environmental education
Brian Strahm
Professor
- soil biogeochemistry
- ecosystem ecology
- carbon & nutrient cycling
Jay Sullivan
Professor
- forest and resource economics
- forest management and planning
- economics of forest conservation and restoration
forest landowner incentives and decisions
Quinn Thomas
Associate Professor
- ecosystem ecology & modeling
- climate change science
- environmental data science
Valerie Thomas
Professor
- remote sensing
- ecosystem condition & dynamics
- big data
Anja Whittington
Collegiate Associate Professor
- Outdoor/adventure education
- Inclusion in the outdoors
- Social science
Eric Wiseman
Associate Professor
- urban forest management
- urban forest assessment
- trees in the built environment
Randy Wynne
Professor
- forest remote sensing
- environmental analytics
- measure, monitor, model