Home :: Education :: Graduate Programs :: Graduate Faculty
GRADUATE FACULTY:
Jeffrey Benjamin, Ph.D. (University of New Brunswick, 2006)
Assistant Professor of Forest Operations. Supply chain management within forest industry, forest / stand production and final product quality, analysis of transportation systems, harvesting system selection
Thomas B. Brann, Ph.D. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1979), Professor of Forest Resources. Inventory methods and computer sciences.
John J. Daigle, Ph.D. (Massachusetts, 1997), Associate Professor of Forest Recreation Management. Recreation planning and management, social research methods for natural resource professionals, human dimensions of natural resources management.
Michael E. Day, Ph.D. (University of Maine, 2000), Associate Scientist. Physiological ecology.
David B. Field, Ph.D. (Purdue, 1974), Edwin L. Giddings Professor Emeritus of Forest Policy. Professor Emeritus of Forest Resources. Forest Economics and policy, forest resource valuation, forest taxation, forest planning.
Douglas J. Gardner, Ph.D. (Mississippi State, 1985), Professor of Wood Science and Technology. Program Leader, Wood Science and Technology. Wood surface chemistry, phenolic-adhesive chemistry, wood anatomy, wood composites, wood adhesion.
Barry S. Goodell, Ph.D. (Oregon State, 1983). Professor of Wood Science and Technology, Forest Products Lab. Cooperating Professor, Chemical Engineering and the Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center. Control of decay in wood, wood microbiology, wood preservation, wood biotechnology.
Michael S. Greenwood, Ph.D. (Yale, 1969), Ruth Hutchins Professor of Forest Tree Physiology and Professor of Forest Resources. Cooperating Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Forest tree improvement, tree regeneration, tree physiology.
Anthony Halog, Ph.D. (University of Karlsruhe, Germany, 2002), Assistant Professor of Industrial Ecology & Life Cycle Assessment. Operations management and information systems; data analysis; database management; business simulation and modeling.
Richard Jagels, Ph.D. (Illinois, 1968), Professor, Department of Forest Ecosystem Science. Cooperating Professor, Department of Biological Sciences. Plant reactions to environmental stress.
Laura S. Kenefic, Ph.D. (Maine, 2000), Assistant Research Professor of Forest Resources. Silviculture, leaf area relationships, effects of exploitative cutting.
Alan J. Kimball, M.S. (Maine, 1978), Associate Professor of Forest Resources. Integrated management of nonindustrial forest properties, ecology and management of oak-pine forests.
Jessica Leahy, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota, 2005), Assistant Professor of Forest Resources. Forest recreation, parks and tourism, community perceptions of forest recreation, quantitative survey methods.
Robert Lilieholm, Ph.D. (Berkeley, 1988), Associate Professor of Forest Resources. Forest Economics and Policy; ways in which wildlands can be sustainably managed to promote a wide range of ecological and social goals.
William H. Livingston, Ph.D. (Minnesota, 1985), Associate Professor of Forest Resources. Cold tolerance of conifers, forest pathology, forest diebacks and declines.
J. Louis Morin, M.S. (Maine, 1978), Instructor of Forest Resources. Global Positioning Systems and Geographic Information Systems as they relate to natural resource management.
Robert W. Rice, Ph.D. (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988), Professor of Wood Science and Technology. Wood physics, wood drying, non-destructive evaluation, forest products marketing, pulp and paper marketing and management.
Steven A. Sader, Ph.D. (Idaho, 1981), Professor of Forest Resources. Cooperating Professor of Wildlife Ecology. Director, Maine Image Analysis Laboratory. Remote sensing of forest environments, tropical forest and conservation easement monitoring, landscape ecology.
Robert S. Seymour, Ph.D. (Yale, 1980), Curtis Hutchins Professor of Forest Resources (Quantitative Silviculture). Cooperating Professor in Forest Management. Silviculture; growth and yield; ecosystem management.
Stephen M. Shaler, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University, 1986). Professor of Wood Science and Technology. Cooperating Professor of Chemical Engineering and Assistant Director, Advanced Engineered Wood Composites Center. Wood composites and mechanical properties.
Robert K. Shepard, Jr., Ph.D. (Michigan, 1970), Professor Emeritus of Forest Resources. Wood properties, sludge and wood ash application to forest lands.
Robert G. Wagner, Ph.D. (Oregon State, 1989), Henry W. Saunders Distinguished Professor in Forestry, Professor of Forest Resources and Director of Cooperative Forestry Research Unit. Silviculture; forest ecology and regeneration; vegetation ecology and management.
Aaron R. Weiskittel, Ph.D. (Oregon State, 2006), Assistant Professor of Forest Biometrics and Modeling. Empirical and process-based growth models, regional variation in forest productivity, crown structure and dynamics, quantitative silviculture.
Alan S. White, Ph.D. (Minnesota, 1981), Professor of Forest Ecology. Forest ecology, silviculture, plant competition, regeneration, old-growth stand development, disturbance ecology.
G. Bruce Wiersma, Ph.D. (SUNY, 1968), Professor of Forest Resources and Director, Center for Research on Sustainable Forests. Pollutant transport and monitoring, environmental science.
Jeremy S. Wilson, Ph.D. (University of Washington, 1988). Irving Chair for Forest Ecosystem Management, Assistant Professor of Forest Resources. Silviculture; integration of GIS technology, growth and yield models, stand and landscape visualization, and analysis tools to evaluate future landscape conditions under a variety of management scenarios, forest development patterns.
EXTERNAL GRADUATE FACULTY:
Barbara Bond, Ph.D. (Oregon State University, 1992), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. physiological processes at the whole plant and plant community scales.
Luc Bouthillier, Ph.D. (Laval, 1991), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Sustainable forest management; social sustainability.
John C. Brissette, Ph.D. (Louisiana, 1990), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. U.S. Forest Service. Silviculture of northern conifer ecosystems, ecophysiology of conifer regeneration.
Charles V. Cogbill, Ph.D. (Toronto, 1982), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Historical ecology, old-growth forests, reserve design, and land management.
Mae A. Davenport, Ph.D. (University of Minnesota, 2003), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Recreation land use planning, parks, recreation and tourism.
Andrew F. Egan, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania State University, 1993), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Forest operations, timber harvesting, effects of exurbanization and parcelization on stumpage availability, development of timber harvesting operability factors using remote sensing.
Katherine J. Elliott, Ph.D. (Maine, 1991), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Forest ecology, fire ecology, stand dynamics, biodiversity.
Yoosoo Han, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin, 2002), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Environment-friendly thermoplastic composites, wood polymer composites, chemical modification of natural polymers.
Jeffrey A. Hepinstall, Ph.D. (University of Maine, 2000), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Land cover change, avian species richness changes.
David R. Houston, Ph.D. (University of Wisconson), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Dieback-decline diseases of deciduous hardwoods.
Lloyd C. Irland, Ph.D. (Yale, 1973), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources, Principal, The Irland Group (Forestry Consultants). Forest economics.
Dirk Jaeger, Ph.D. (University of Goettingen, 1995), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Forest machinery on forest soils, impact of soil compaction on seedlings growth, pedestrian bridges in forest environments.
Samantha J. Langley-Turnbaugh, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Soils, urban land use impacts on soil quality, soil evolution.
Wilbur F. LaPage, Ph.D. (Syracuse, 1975), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Public park policy, environmental interpretation, tourism, and non-economic benefits of public lands.
Donald MacKay, PhD. (University of Minnesota), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Economics, policy and administration, marketing.
James Moreira. External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Parks, Recreation and Tourism.
Lech Muszynski, Ph.D. (University of Poznan, 1997). External Graduate Faculty in Wood Science and Technology. Hygro-mechanical behavior of wood; advanced hybrid wood-FRP composites, coatings, and multifunctional barriers; durability of wooden and composite structural elements; application of digital image analysis to measurement of deformation; modeling drying stresses in wood.
Gregory A. Norris, Ph.D. (University of New Hampshire, 1994). External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. LCA and risk assessment of PVC.
Ralph D. Nyland, Ph.D. (Michigan State Univ., 1966), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Silviculture of northern hardwoods, uneven-aged silvicultural systems.
Jennifer A. Pontius, Ph.D. (University of New Hampshire, 2004). External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Design, implementation and manage a regional forest health study to develop hyperspectral technologies to assess and monitor hemlock woolly adelgid and hemlock decline.
Andrea Read, Ph.D. (University of Chicago, 1992), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Urban-rural youth forestry.
Michael R. Saunders, Ph.D. (University of Maine, 2006). External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Influence of precommercial thinning on long-term stand growth.
Neal Scott, Ph.D. (Colorado State University, 1996). External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Study of how biotic and abiotic factors influence soil and terrestrial ecosystem processes at several scales.
David B. Struble, M.S. (University of Maine, 1974). External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. The onset of radial growth reduction caused by balsam woolly adelgid damage on balsam fir in relation to climate using dendroecological methods.
Melvin T. Tyree, Ph.D. (Cambridge, 1972), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Hydraulic architecture of trees.
Bret P. Vicary, Ph.D. (Maine, 1986), External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources, James Sewall Co., Consultants. Forest economics, financial analysis, forest appraisal.
Gregory J. White, Ph.D. (University of Maine, 1996). External Graduate Faculty in Forest Resources. Ecological and cultural researach on the fate and transport of environmental pollutants.
