Forest Scene, Fall 2023 - New Faculty

December 29, 2023
A Caucasian woman smiles while bundled in a coat, hat, and scarf in winter. She has sunglasses resting on top of her hat. Behind her is snow, bare trees, and a clear sky.

Alicia Coleman
Assistant Professor of Urban and Community Forestry

“My teaching provides foundational knowledge in the theories and practice of urban and community forestry, complementing undergraduate education in forestry, environmental science, and environmental studies and positioning students to pursue additional education in arboriculture, urban forestry, or allied professions. I aim to achieve this by: 1) reinforcing fundamental principles and histories of key topics; 2) encouraging opportunities for students to learn from industry professionals and each other; 3) acknowledging the diversity of perspectives, knowledge, and backgrounds brought together in a classroom.”

 

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Irene De Pellegrin Llorente
Research Assistant Professor of Forest Management and Bioeconomy

“My research centers on forest management planning and the bioeconomy as well as applications of forestry operations research. My main focus is on developing new modeling tools to address important and challenging forest management problems such as uncertainty, climate change, and spatially-explicit forest management planning problems. I am also interested in multi-objective forest management problems interdisciplinary research integrating new information on ecosystem services for real-world forest planning applications. Lastly, forest economics applications and timber supply analysis are key areas of my research portfolio.”

Photos courtesy of Alicia Coleman and Irene De Pellegrin Llorente.

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The Forest Scene newsletter is published biannually in the spring and fall, featuring stories and updates from the Department of Forest Resources. Readers can download issue 30 of Forest Scene as an interactive PDF that is fully tagged and compatible with most screen readers, or read the individual stories here in a web-based format (coming soon!):