Faculty in Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation and Management

Name	Topics	Areas of Study
David Andow	Ecological risk assessment of biological stressors, such as invasive species and genetically engineered organisms. Evolution of pest resistance and food web interactions.	Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Brian H. Aukema	Forest entomology, statistics	Assessment, Monitoring, and Geospatial Analysis Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Robert A. Blanchette	Forest and Shade Tree Diseases, Wood Microbiology	Forest Products Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Charles R. Blinn	Forest and riparian zone management, marketing, harvesting	Economics, Policy, Management, and Society Forest Products Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Paul V. Bolstad	GIS in natural resource analysis, forest ecology, spatial data analysis	Assessment, Monitoring, and Geospatial Analysis Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
John Bradford	Global change on terrestrial ecosystems	Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Thomas E. Burk	Biometrics, growth modeling, sampling, information systems	Assessment, Monitoring, and Geospatial Analysis Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Dean Current	Resource analysis, international forestry	Economics, Policy, Management, and Society Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Andrew J. David	Forest genetics, tree improvement, gene conservation, alternative biomass crops	Forest Products Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Mike Dockry	Social, community, and indigenous forestry; human environment interactions; traditional ecological knowledge; American Indian studies; climate change planning; international forestry and development; land tenure; public involvement, collaboration and participatory methods; planning; interdisciplinary sustainability science; environmental history; strategic foresight methods.	Economics, Policy, Management, and Society Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Grant Domke	Carbon dynamics in natural and managed ecosystems, resource inventory and assessment, ecosystem health, dendroecology, global change, bioenergy, forest canopy dynamics, ecosystem modeling, and forest biomass and carbon accounting.	Assessment, Monitoring, and Geospatial Analysis Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Chris Edgar	Forest resource anaylsis	Assessment, Monitoring, and Geospatial Analysis Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Alan R. Ek	Biometrics: Sampling, resource inventory, modeling forest dynamics	Assessment, Monitoring, and Geospatial Analysis Economics, Policy, Management, and Society Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Lee E. Frelich	Forest ecology: fire and wind, climate change and invasive species.	Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
David C. Fulton	Human dimensions of natural resource policy and planning	Economics, Policy, Management, and Society Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management Recreation Resources, Tourism, and Environmental Education Wildlife Ecology and Management
Susan M. Galatowitsch	Ecological restoration of wetlands, lakeshores, riparian systems, and prairies	Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management Wildlife Ecology and Management
James Gerber	Focus is the interrelation of climate variability, crop yields, and systemic trends in food security.	Economics, Policy, Management, and Society Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Sarah E. Hobbie	Ecosystem ecology, carbon and nutrient cycling	Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Gary Johnson	Urban and community forestry	Economics, Policy, Management, and Society Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Bonnie Keeler	Serves as the project director, leading a team of experts in ecology, economics and software development seeking to better communicate and quantify the value of nature.	Economics, Policy, Management, and Society Forest Hydrology and Watershed Management Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Michael A. Kilgore	Natural resources economics, policy, and administration.	Economics, Policy, Management, and Society Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management Wildlife Ecology and Management
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	Forest Hydrology and Watershed Management Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Daniel Larkin		Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Chris Lenhart	Research interests include linkages between hydrology, stream geomorphology and ecology. I am also very interested in the ecological restoration of streams and wetlands.	Forest Hydrology and Watershed Management Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Rebecca A. Montgomery	Forest ecology, ecophysiology, tropical ecology, global change biology	Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Ed Nater	Biogeochemistry; Environmental Chemistry; Pedology	Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Kristen C. Nelson	Human dimensions, community forestry, environmental sociology, dispute resolution, and participatory planning	Economics, Policy, Management, and Society Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Karen Oberhauser	Invertebrate conservation and ecology, with particular interest in monarch butterflies; Citizen Science and ecological monitoring; Promoting a citizenry with a high degree of scientific and environmental literacy.	Economics, Policy, Management, and Society Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Brian J. Palik	Forest Ecology	Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
C. Hobie Perry	Forest soils, inventory, hydrology	Assessment, Monitoring, and Geospatial Analysis Forest Hydrology and Watershed Management Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
A. Stephen Polasky	Environmental and resource economics, ecology and economics, conservation biology, game theory	Economics, Policy, Management, and Society Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Peter B. Reich	Forest Ecology Laboratory Institute on the Environment	Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Matthew Russell	Primary topics of interest are forest ecosystem health, modeling forest ecosystem dynamics, and forest analytics.	Assessment, Monitoring, and Geospatial Analysis Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Jonathan Schilling	Biodegradation, wood microbiology, forest biogeochemistry	Forest Products Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Ingrid E. Schneider	Recreation resource management, tourism	Economics, Policy, Management, and Society Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management Recreation Resources, Tourism, and Environmental Education
Rob Slesak	Forest soils, applied forest ecology, forest management, hydrology, forest monitoring	Forest Hydrology and Watershed Management Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
James L. David Smith	Conservation Biology	Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management Wildlife Ecology and Management
Veronique St-Louis	Quantitative ecology	Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Robert Venette	Invasive species	Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Marcella Windmuller-Campione	Silviculture and Applied Forest Ecology	Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management
Diomy Zamora	Agroforestry, fire ecology, forestry extension, renewable energy (biomass production)	Economics, Policy, Management, and Society Forests: Biology, Ecology, Conservation, and Management