Faculty

Name	Areas of Interest	Email
Jean Albrecht Librarian Emeritus	Forestry Librarian	jeanalbrecht@comcast.net
Alvin Alm Professor Emeritus	Reforestation and site preparation techniques, Christmas tree culture
Dorothy Anderson Professor Emeritus	Recreation resources management, policy and planning, environmental learning and leadership	dha@umn.edu
Brian Aukema Adjunct Faculty	Landscape ecology of forest insects	bhaukema@umn.edu
Chad Babcock Assistant Professor	Remote Sensing, Forest Inventory, Geospatial Analysis, and Bayesian Statistics.	cbabcock@umn.edu
Frederick Baker Adjunct Faculty		fab384@gmail.com
Marvin Bauer Professor Emeritus	Applications of digital remote sensing to inventory, monitoring, and analysis of land, vegetation, and water resources.	mbauer@umn.edu
Melvin Baughman Professor Emeritus	Recreational trail design	baughman@umn.edu
David Bengston Adjunct Faculty	Economics of technical change, research planning, management, and evaluation	david.bengston@usda.gov
Robert Blanchette Adjunct Faculty	Forest pathology: Forest and shade tree diseases	robertb@umn.edu
Charlie Blinn Professor, Extension Specialist	Forest management, harvesting, best management practices, economics, marketing	cblinn@umn.edu
Paul Bolstad Professor	Ecology, tree physiology, ecophysiology, silviculture, remote sensing, and geographic information systems.	pbolstad@umn.edu
Leslie Brandt Adjunct Faculty		leslie.brandt@usda.gov
Kenneth Brooks Professor Emeritus	Hydrology—modeling impacts of forest land use on water resources	brook007@umn.edu
Thomas Burk Professor Emeritus	Biometrics—forest growth modeling and experimental design	tburk@umn.edu
Jennifer Corcoran Adjunct Faculty		Jennifer.corcoran@state.mn.us
Meredith Cornett Adjunct Faculty		mcornett@tnc.org
Thomas Crowther Adjunct Faculty	Community ecology, ecosystem ecology, global change ecology	tom.crowther@usys.ethz.ch
Anthony D Amato Adjunct Faculty	Silviculture	Anthony.DAmato@uvm.edu
Mae Davenport Professor, Director-Center for Changing Landscapes	Human dimensions of natural resources and recreation management.	mdaven@umn.edu
Andrew David Associate Professor, Director of Operations for the Cloquet Forestry Center and Hubachek Wilderness Research Centers	Forest genetics and tree improvement	adavid@umn.edu
Michael Dockry Assistant Professor	American Indian and Indigenous Natural Resource Management, Tribal Partnerships, Integration of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Ecological Knowledge, Strategic Foresight and Planning, Institutional Diversity, and Environmental History	mdockry@umn.edu
Grant Domke Adjunct Faculty	Forest Inventory and Analysis	grant.m.domke@usda.gov
Karlyn Eckman Adjunct Faculty	International forestry, agroforestry, water quality and watershed management	eckma001@umn.edu
Chris Edgar Research Assistant Professor	Measurements and biometrics	cedgar@umn.edu
Alan Ek Professor Emeritus	Development of forest regeneration, growth, and change models for resource planning and long-term analysis of ecosystem trends; development of survey and monitoring designs for forest and related resources; forestry and related natural resources research including its funding, function, direction, conduct, and benefits.	aek@umn.edu
Paul Ellefson Professor Emeritus	Policy and administration; Economics, management & planning	pellefso@umn.edu
Forrest Fleischman Assistant Professor	Environmental politics, policy, governance, and decision-making; social-ecological systems; forest policy and administration; public management; public participation in democratic decision-making; 3rd world development, particularly India and Mexico.	ffleisch@umn.edu
Hans Gregersen Professor Emeritus	Economics, management and planning; Policy and administration	hans@walk-about.net
David Grigal Adjunct Faculty	Forest soils: Vegetation-soil relationships, nutrient cycling, land classification	dgrigal@umn.edu
Angela Gupta Adjunct Faculty	Natural resource management and utilization	agupta@umn.edu
Mark Hansen Adjunct Faculty		hanse034@gmail.com
Howard Hoganson Professor Emeritus	Management and economics: Timber supply analysis, harvest scheduling, operations research
Gary Johnson Extension Professor Emeritus	Urban and community forestry, urban forest health, stress disorders (deicing salt damage), urbanized soils, diseases of trees and shrubs, risk assessment and management, tree preservation during construction activities, dysfunctional root systems (including stem girdling roots), and nursery tree production.	johns054@umn.edu
Diana Karwan Associate Professor	Hydrology, water science, and water quality.	dlkarwan@umn.edu
Christel Kern Adjunct Faculty		christel.c.kern@usda.gov
Mike Kilgore Department Head and Professor, Director: Center for Environment & Natural Resource Policy	Natural Resources Economics, Policy, and Administration	mkilgore@umn.edu
Joe Knight Professor, Director, Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory, Major Coordinator: Environmental Sciences, Policy, and Management	Geospatial Science: Remote Sensing and GIS	jknight@umn.edu
Randy Kolka Adjunct Faculty	Soils and hydrology-landscape and riparian ecosystems.	randall.k.kolka@usda.gov
Ronald McRoberts Adjunct Faculty	Nonlinear methods for forest growth modeling.	mcrob001@umn.edu
Rebecca Montgomery Professor, Institute on the Environment (IonE) Fellow	Forest ecology, ecophysiology, tropical ecology	rebeccam@umn.edu
Linda Nagel Adjunct Faculty	Forest & Rangeland Stewardship	Linda.Nagel@colostate.edu
Kristen C Nelson Professor in the Department of Forest Resources, Professor in the Department of Fisheries, Wildlife, & Conservation Biology	Governance of urban ecosystems, social drivers of homeowner and land manager vegetation management, beekeeper stewardship, and alternative futures for urban ecosystems.	nelso468@umn.edu
Mark Nelson Adjunct Faculty		mark.d.nelson@usda.gov
Eric North Assistant Professor of Urban & Community Forestry	urban forestry, citizen science, tree biometrics, tree-rings analysis, arboriculture, tree biology	nort0105@umn.edu
Brian Palik Adjunct Faculty	Forest ecology	brian.palik@usda.gov
Charles Perry Adjunct Faculty	Forest soils, multiresource assessment	charles.h.perry@usda.gov
Emily Peters Adjunct Faculty	Forest Ecologist; forest ecosystem ecology, forest management, policy and landscape planning	emily.peters@state.mn.us
Ann Pierce Adjunct Faculty		ann.pierce@dnr.state.mn.us
Peter Reich Regents Professor, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, F.B. Hubachek, Sr. Chair in Forest Ecology and Tree Physiology	Forests, grasslands, biology, ecology, climate change, and social justice.	preich@umn.edu
Claudia Rodriguez Solorzano Adjunct Faculty		rodr0423@umn.edu
Dietmar Rose Professor Emeritus	Forest economics, management, and planning	rosex003@umn.edu
Matt Russell Associate Professor, Extension Specialist, Director of Graduate Studies, Natural Resources Science and Management (NRSM)	Forest ecosystem health, forest analytics, and forest carbon.	russellm@umn.edu
Eli Sagor Adjunct Faculty, Extension Specialist	Forest ecology and management	esagor@umn.edu
Ingrid Schneider Professor	Human dimensions of natural resource management, policy, and recreation management.	ingridss@umn.edu
Stephen Sebestyen Adjunct Faculty		stephen.sebestyen@usda.gov
Robert Slesak Adjunct Faculty	Forests soils, applied forest ecology, forest management practices	raslesak@umn.edu
James Smith Adjunct Faculty	Conservation biology	smith017@umn.edu
Stephanie Snyder Adjunct Faculty		stephanie.a.snyder@usda.gov
Susan Stafford Professor and Dean Emeritus	Applied statistics, environmental science, policy and management; research information and data management, environmental leadership, frameworks for interdisciplinary research and education.	stafford@umn.edu
Brian Sturtevant Adjunct Faculty		brian.r.sturtevant@usda.gov
Molly Van Appledorn Adjunct Faculty		mvanappledorn@usgs.gov
Carl Vogt Extension Specialist Emeritus	Conservation education, hardwood management, maple syrup, and Christmas trees.	tectrees@aol.com
Sonja Wilhelm Stanis Adjunct Faculty		sonjaws@missouri.edu
Marcella Windmuller Campione Assistant Professor of Silviculture, Major Coordinator: Forest and Natural Resource Management	Silviculture, Applied Forest Ecology, Adaptative Management, and Ecological Forestry.	mwind@umn.edu
Christopher Woodall Adjunct Faculty		christopher.w.woodall@usda.gov
John Zobel Assistant Professor	Forest and natural resource biometrics, measurements and modeling	jzobel@umn.edu

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