Marcella Windmuller Campione

Dr. Marcella Windmuller-Campione
Associate Professor
Major Coordinator: Forest and Natural Resource Management
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(612) 624-3699
ResearchGate Profile
Silva Lab Group
Education
  • PhD in Ecology, Utah State University, 2015
  • MS in Forestry, Michigan Technological University, 2011
  • BS in Forestry, Michigan Technological University, 2009
External Affiliations

Society of American Foresters

Courses taught
Managing Forest Ecosystems: Silviculture
Field Silviculture
Managing Forest Ecosysems: Silviculture Lab

Areas of Interest

Silviculture, Applied Forest Ecology, Adaptative Management, and Ecological Forestry.

Teaching

Dr. Marcella Windmuller-Campione’s learning experience as a child was shaped through experiments, questions, and hands-on opportunities to learn and fail in a supportive environment. It was these experiences that drew Marcella to the field of forestry. Marcella’s teaching philosophy strongly draws from my childhood and undergraduate experiences and focuses on three main principles. The first principle is active and experiential learning (learning-by-doing). The second, student centered learning, acknowledges and celebrates the diversity and range of experiences, knowledge, and backgrounds that each student brings to the classroom. Finally, Marcella want to ensure students have the opportunity work through assignments and concepts which challenge their skills and knowledge in a supportive environment

Research

As a silviculturist, Dr. Marcella Windmuller-Campione’s overarching research goals are to explore the underlying dynamics of forests – how forests develop or are impacted by current and future disturbances – and to use that basic science to develop management strategies (silvicultural practices) which allow the sustainable management of forest ecosystems in the face of changing conditions. Specifically, Marcella strives to create knowledge which can be applied by foresters and natural resource managers locally, regionally, nationally, and globally to increase forest resilience to current and future threats while maintaining ecological and economic ecosystem services.

Dr. Windmuller-Campione’s research focuses on three primary areas of scientific exploration:

  1. Quantifying the influence of anthropogenic and natural disturbances on stand development and stand dynamics in managed and natural systems.
  2. Developing alternative forest management strategies and techniques in forest systems which increase adaptation and mitigation potential to a changing climate.
  3. Assessing how ecosystem services, societal values, and forest policy influence forest management decisions.

Select Publications

  • Windmuller-Campione, M. A., & Long, J. N. (2015). If long-term resistance to a spruce beetle epidemic is futile, can silvicultural treatments increase resilience in spruce-fir forests in the Central Rocky Mountains?. Forests, 6(4), 1157-1178.
  • Windmuller‐Campione, M. A., & Carter, D. R. (2017). Active learning using smart phones in a flipped classroom: A case study on developing final videos in silviculture. Natural Sciences Education, 46(1), 1-9.
  • Windmuller-Campione, M. A., Russell, M. B., Slesak, R. A., & Lochner, M. (2020). Regeneration responses in black ash (Fraxinus nigra) wetlands: implications for forest diversification to address emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis). New Forests, 1-22.
  • Windmuller-Campione, M. A., Russell, M. B., Sagor, E., D’Amato, A. W., Ek, A. R., Puettmann, K. J., & Rodman, M. G. (2020). The Decline of the Clearcut: 26 Years of Change in Silvicultural Practices and Implications in Minnesota. Journal of Forestry, 118(3), 244-259.

Honors and Awards

Richard C. Newman Art of Teaching Award 2020

National Advanced Silviculture Program

The National Advanced Silviculture Program (NASP) is an annual, national, graduate-level training for USDA Forest Service (FS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) personnel to become certified silviculturists. Since 2016, Marcella Windmuller-Campione has been the co-director for the NASP’s Ecological Systems (Module 1), hosted at the Cloquet Forestry Center. As the module’s co-director, Marcella is responsible for coordinating two weeks of content for an average of 36 federal employees. I lecture on topics related to silviculture, stand development, stand growth, and applied ecology.