I am a Professor of Silviculture and Applied Forest Ecology and Director of the Forestry Program at the University of Vermont. I was a tenured faculty member for seven years at the University of Minnesota and Bullard Fellow at Harvard University’s Harvard Forest prior to joining the University of Vermont in January 2015. My research focuses on long-term forest dynamics, disturbance effects on ecosystem structure and function, and silvicultural strategies for conferring adaptation potential within the context of global change, including introduced insects and pathogens. I have published over 210 peer-reviewed papers on these topics since 2000, as well as authored two ecological silviculture textbooks and numerous book chapters and reports related to forest dynamics and silviculture. I received my B.S. in Forest Ecosystem Science from the University of Maine, M.S. in Forest Science from Oregon State University, and PhD in Forest Resources from University of Massachusetts and was elected as a Fellow for the Society of American Foresters in 2023.
