Graduate Studies in Natural Resources Science and Management

Faculty in Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation and Management

Mark E. Ascerno

Forest entomology: Forest and urban plant pest control

Melvin J. Baughman

incentives for private forest management, taxation, recreational trail design

Robert A. Blanchette

Forest and Shade Tree Diseases, Wood Microbiology

Charles R. Blinn

Forest and riparian zone management, marketing, harvesting

Paul V. Bolstad

GIS in natural resource analysis, forest ecology, spatial data analysis

Kenneth N. Brooks

Hydrology: Modeling impacts of forest land use on water resources, hydrology of peatlands

Thomas E. Burk

Biometrics, growth modeling, sampling, information systems

Anthony W. D'Amato

Silviculture, vegetation management.

Andrew J. David

Forest genetics, tree improvement, gene conservation, alternative biomass crops

Alan R. Ek

Biometrics: Sampling, resource inventory, modeling forest dynamics

Lee E. Frelich

Forest ecology: fire and wind disturbance, invasive species, global

David C. Fulton

Human dimensions of natural resource policy and planning

Sarah E. Hobbie

Ecosystem ecology, carbon and nutrient cycling

Gary R. Johnson

Urban and community forestry

Michael A. Kilgore

Natural resources economics

Randall K. Kolka

Land management (forest, agriculture and urban land uses) on the terrestrial and aquatic cycling of nutrients, carbon, heavy metals (notably mercury) and water 

Rebecca A. Montgomery

Forest ecology, ecophysiology, tropical ecology

Kristin C. Nelson

Human dimensions, community forestry, environmental sociology, dispute resolution, and participatory planning

Joseph O'Brien

Plant pathology

Jacek Oleksyn

Ecophysiology, tree biology

Michael E. Ostry

Forest pathology

Brian J. Palik

Forest Ecology

C. Hobie Perry

Forest soils, inventory, hydrology

A. Stephen Polasky

Environmental and resource economics, ecology and economics, industrial organization

Peter B. Reich

Forest ecology, ecophysiology

Michael R. Reichenbach

Forestry extension

Jonathan S. Schilling

Biodegradation, wood microbiology, forest biogeochemistry

Ingrid E. Schneider

Recreation resource management, tourism

J.L. David Smith

Conservation Biology

Diomides S. Zamora

Agroforestry, fire ecology, forestry extension, renewable energy (biomass production)