Forestry
Forestry offers advanced study in natural and social science, management, and economic aspects of forestry and wood science, in an interdisciplinary setting.
Faculty Members
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Aitken, Sally | forest genetics, climate change, Climate change, conservation, ecology, genetics, genomics |
| Alila, Younes | Hydrology, Flood, Water Resources, Water Structures, Forest Hydrology, Forest management, hydrological engineering |
| Arcese, Peter | Global change biology; Ecology; Conservation Biology; Evolutionary Biology; conservation finance |
| Avramidis, Stavros | wood physics; momentum, heat and mass transfer in wood; wood dielectrics; wood drying optimization; dielectric heating, drying, phytosanitation; wood thermodynamics; non destructive evaluation; NIR wood species ID; application of neural networks to properties prediction; modeling of wood drying; cell-wall architecture; sorption characteristics of wood |
| Boedhihartono, Agni | biodiversity; Communities and Livelihoods; conservation; Forest management; Land-use Change; social science; sustainability; Tropical Landscapes and Livelihoods |
| Bohlmann, Joerg | plant biochemistry, forestry genomics, forest health, conifers, poplar, bark beetle, mountain pine beetle, natural products, secondary metabolites, terpenes, floral scent, grapevine, Conifer genomics Forest health genomics Mountain pine beetle, fungus, pine interactions and genomics Chemical ecology of conifer, insect interactions |
| Bulkan, Janette | aboriginal forestry, biodiversity, climate change, communities and livelihoods, conservation, corporate responsibility, forest management, forest policy, international trade, social impact, social science |
| Bull, Gary | international forest policy, environmental services markets, carbon markets, Government and economic systems |
| Burton, Cole | Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Ecological Trends; Animal; Biodiversity and Biocomplexity; Landscape and Restoration; Environment Management and Protection; Wildlife Management; Mammal Ecology; Biodiversity conservation; Ecological Monitoring; Population and Community Ecology; Landscape ecology |
| Carroll, Allan | climate change, mountain pine beetle, bark beetles, forest disturbance, integrated pest management, insect ecology, population dynamics, insect-plant interactions, Climate change, conservation, ecology, ecosystems, forest biology, forest management |
| Chanway, Christopher | Soil microbiology |
| Cool, Julie | modelling, wood products, wood science, wood |
| Coops, Nicholas Charles | Telemetry (Remote Sensing, Radar); Space Techniques; Forestry Technology and Equipment; Plants and Forests |
| Cranston, Emily | Nanoparticle synthesis, properties and applications; Bio-based materials and nanocellulose; Atomic force microscopy (forces, adhesion, friction, imaging); Colloid and interface science; Polymer chemistry; Cellulose nanocrystals; Bioproducts; Foams, emulsions, aerogels |
| Dai, Chunping | Bamboo; Bio-products; Wood Products; Wood Science; Wood Technology |
| Daniels, Lori | forest plants and trees; forest history; forest management; environmental protection and natural resource use, Climate change, ecology, fire regimes |
| Davies, Jonathan | Phylogenetics & Biodiversity. Development and application of phylogenetic methods in ecology and conservation biology |
| Day, Susan | Plants and Forests; Landscape and Restoration; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Environment Management and Protection; urban forestry; urban soils; urban ecology |
| El-Kassaby, Yousry | Applied Genetics; Tree domestication; Seed orchards’ genetics; Tree breeding; genomics; conservation |
| Ellis, Simon | Wood processing and manufacturing, Wood quality, anatomy, wood products processing program |
| Eskelson, Bianca | Natural resource management; Forest Biometrics; Forest Modelling; Disturbance Effects |
| Evans, Philip David | Wood anatomy, wood durability, wood products, wood technology |
| Gergel, Sarah | Aboriginal forestry, biodiversity, climate change, communities and livelihoods, conservation, ecology, remote sensing, sustainability |
| Grayston, Susan | Climate change, microbiology, soil science |
| Griess, Verena | Resources Management; Plants and Forests; Landscape and Environmental Organization; sustainable forest management; forest management planning; decision support systems; forest economics; mixed species; near natural/ close to nature forestry; plantation forests; silviculture |
| Guy, Robert | Plants and Forests; Physiology; Ecological and Ecophysiological Processes |
| Hagerman, Shannon Marie | biodiversity, climate change, communities and livelihoods, conservation, forest policy, social science |
| Hamelin, Richard | |
| Hinch, Scott | salmon migrations, salmon ecology, salmon fisheries, fish conservation, land use impacts (e.g. forestry) on fish and habitat, Salmon, conservation, ecology, fish ecology, fisheries management, stream, and riperian ecology |
| Innes, John | Plants and Forests; Climate Changes and Impacts; Forestry |
| Jiang, Feng | bio-based nanomaterials, carbohydrate chemistry, chemistry, sustainability, wood science |
| Kozak, Robert Antal | Forest-dependent communities in transition, international development & poverty alleviation, value-added strategies, forest certification & corporate social responsibility, forest sector sustainability & competitiveness, marketing, management & consumer behaviour |
| Krzic, Maja | Agriculture; Soil science; Soil science education; Integration of multimedia and soil science |
| Lam, Frank | timber engineering; structural use of wood products, Engineered wood systems |
| Lemay, Valerie | Modeling, estimation, biometrics/mensuration |
| Loss, Cristiano | Wood; Timber Engineering; Wood Building Systems; Hybrid Wood-Based Systems; Seismic Design and Analysis of Timber Structures; Industrialised Wood Systems; Engineered Wood Solutions; Wood as Structural Material; Engineering Wood Design |
| Mansfield, Shawn | plant metabolism, cellulose biosynthesis, lignin biosynthesis, wood formation, wood quality, cell wall biochemistry, tree biotechnology, transgenics, Tree biotechnology |
| Marshall, Peter | Plants and Forests; Forest measurements; Forest stand dynamics |
| Martin, Tara | biodiversity, climate change, climate models, conservation, ecological monitoring, ecology, land-use change, landscape ecology, landscape planning, modelling |
| Meitner, Michael | forest aesthetics and scenic beauty, outdoor recreation, environmental visualization, geographic information systems, visual perception, agent-based modeling, Public involment in planning, sustainability leadership |
| Montwe, David | climate change; Forest management; silviculture; Increasing forest resilience to climatic extremes using silvicultural interventions; Evaluating silvicultural treatments on timber quality and value; Reducing impacts from forest disturbance agents under climate change; Drought and climate change; Species selection; Regeneration; Long-term resilience |
| Nelson, Harry William | analyzing natural and environmental resource policy with an emphasis on forestry and in developing new policy options that can help enhance the long run sustainability of Canadian forests and the communities and businesses that rely upon them |
| Nesbitt, Lorien | Liveable and equitable urban environments; urban forestry; Socio-ecological interactions in urban environments; climate change; Ecosystem services; remote sensing |
| Prescott, Cindy | Ecological and Ecophysiological Processes; Ecosystem (Aquatic and Terrestrial); Landscape and Restoration; Land and Soil; ecological restoration; soil organic matter; nutrient cycling |
| Renneckar, Scott | Advanced renewable materials, biopolymer structure characterization, Clean fractionation of biomass, Electrospinning Fibers, Nanocellulose, Self-assembly of biopolymers |
| Rhemtulla, Jeanine | Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Ecological Trends; Landscape and Restoration; Environment Management and Protection; Biodiversity and Biocomplexity; Landscape ecology & spatial analysis; Ecosystem services; Reforestation; Conservation & Poverty Alleviation; socio-ecological systems; Temperate & tropical forest & agroforestry systems |
| Richardson, John | Natural sciences; Ecology; freshwater biology; food webs; streams; forest |
| Ritland, Kermit | statistical genetics, Population genetics, genomics, plant mating systems |
| Roeser, Dominik | Forest Operations; Wildfire Operations; Biomass supply systems; Feedstock quality improvements; Technology transfer of harvesting technologies in different operational environments; Small scale harvesting systems; Small scale bioenergy solutions |
| Saddler, John | Biotechnology, microbiology |
