Robert Abt, Professor of Forestry; Co-Director, Southern Forest Resource Assessment Consortium
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources
North Carolina State University
Research Interests: regional timber supply modeling; economics of agroforestry; econometric applications in forestry.
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Damian C. Adams, Assistant Professor, Natural Resource Economics and Policy
School of Forest Resources and Conservation
University of Florida
Research Interests: Bioeconomic modeling; policy and law analysis; invasive species, water resources, and carbon offsets.
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Gwendolyn Boyd, Assistant Professor of Forestry, Chair of 1890 Agroforestry Consortium
Department of Agriculture
Alcorn State University
Research Interests: Chemistry of loblolly pine; study of southern pine beetle.
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Ryan Boyles, Director and State Climatologist
State Climate Office of North Carolina
North Carolina State University
Research Interests: Climate services; local and regional climatology; weather and climate applications; observational sensors and systems; data management.
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Harold Burkhart, University Distinguished Professor; Director, Forest Modeling Research Cooperative
Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation

Virginia Tech
Research Interests: Modeling forest stand dynamics, growth and yield; applying quantitative analysis techniques to forestry problems.
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Tom Byram, Assistant Professor & Texas Forest Service
Department of Ecosystem Science and Management
Texas A&M University
Research Interests: Forest genetics and forest tree improvement
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Douglas R. Carter, Professor, Forest Economics and Management
School of Forest Resources and Conservation
University of Florida
Research Interests: Forest economics and management; timber supply and timber markets; economics of forest management alternatives; tropical forest economics.
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Wendell Cropper, Associate Professor, Biological Process Modeling
School of Forest Resources and Conservation
University of Florida
Research Interests: Biological Process Modeling; computer simulation models of populations and physiological and ecosystem processes for southern pines and other Florida ecosystems.
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John Davis, Professor of Forest Biotechnology and Molecular Biology; Co-Director, Forest Biology Research Cooperative
School of Forest Resources and Conservation
University of Florida
Research Interests: Forest biotechnology and molecular biology; tree functional genomics to understand how genes function to create phenotypes or traits.
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J.C. Domec, Professor and Research Assistant
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources
North Carolina State University
Research Interests: Ecophysiology; plant water relations; forest ecology and wood science.
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Thomas Fox, Professor of Forest Soils and Silviculture; Co-Director, Forest Productivity Cooperative
Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation
Virginia Tech
Research Interests: Forest fertilization and tree nutrition; silviculture of Appalachian hardwoods; intensive silviculture of southern pine plantations; forest soils; rhizosphere chemistry; environmental sustainability of intensive forest management; ecophysiology of managed forest stands.
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Jianbang Gan, Professor & Associate Department Head for Graduate Programs
Department of Ecosystem Science and Management
Texas A&M University
Research Interests: Economics of bioenergy and natural and human disturbances including
climate change, wildfire, pest infestation, and invasion of alien species as related to forest resource management/conservation; forest product trade and socially or economically disadvantaged forestland owners
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Donald Grebner, Professor
Department of Forestry
Mississippi State University
Research Interests: Forest economics; international forestry; forest management; biomass and bioenergy; carbon sequestration; forest protection
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Sabine Grunwald, Professor, GIS and Land Resources
Soil and Water Science Department
University of Florida
Research Interests: Soil-landscape modeling; pedometrics; digital soil mapping; envirometrics; Geographic Information Systems (GIS); soil and remote sensing applications
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Thomas C. Hennessey, Professor
Department of Resource, Ecology and Management
Oklahoma State University
Research Interests: Effects of water stress and soil nutrient deficiencies on tree growth and wood formation; quantification of forest physiological responses to silvicultural practices, including thinning, fertilization, and competition control.
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Jason Holliday, Assistant Professor
Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation
Virginia Tech
Research Interests: Climatic adaptation in widely distributed tree species; transcriptional responses to abiotic stress; genotype-phenotype association studies; conservation genetics; genome-enabled breeding; adaptation of tree populations to climate change; landscape genomics.
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Joshua Idassi, Natural Resources Specialist
Cooperative Extension, School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
North Carolina A&T University
Research Interests: forestry Extension
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Fikret Isik, Research Associate Professor of Quantitative Forest Genetics
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources
North Carolina State University
Research Interests: Quantitative genetics; genetic basis of disease resistance of forest trees; wood density assessment and genetics; application of molecular markers in tree breeding; genomic selection; conservation of forest genetic resources.
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Kurt Johnsen, Team Leader/Plant Physiologist
Forest Genetics & Biological Foundations
U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station
Research Interests: Forest tree growth and physiological responses to variation in water and nutrient availability, temperature, and atmospheric CO2 environment; process model development and evaluation
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Eric J. Jokela, Professor of Silviculture and Forest Nutrition; Co-Director Forest Biology Research Cooperative
School of Forest Resources and Conservation
University of Florida
Research Interests: Nutritional aspects of crop (forest) yield; understanding stand-level responses (e.g., canopy dynamics, light interception, carbon allocation) and ecosystem processes (soil nutrient supply, nutrient cycling, uptake and use efficiency) that influence the production ecology of managed coniferous forests.
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James W. Jones, Director, Florida climate Institute; Distinguished Professor

Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering
University of Florida
Research Interests: Agricultural production systems analysis; simulation; crop and soil modeling; environmental effects on crop growth and yield; computer applications in agriculture.
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Michael Kane, Professor, Quantitative Silviculture; Director, Plantation Management Research Cooperative
Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources
University of Georgia
Research Interests: Pine and hardwood silviculture; plantation growth and yield; decision tools; site productivity; tropical forestry.
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John King, Associate Professor
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources
North Carolina State University
Research Interests: Assessing how the cycling and storage of carbon and water in forested ecosystems are influenced by climate variability, management, genetics, and the interaction of biotic and abiotic stresses; potential productivity and sustainability of short-rotation woody cropping systems for bioenergy.
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Konstantin V. Krutovsky, Associate Professor
Department of Ecosystem Science and Management
Texas A&M University
Research Interests: Genetic control of complex traits that define adaptation and response to environmental stresses in conifers, as well as traits of practical value, such as wood quality, growth, and disease resistance, which often have quantitative expression.
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Carol Loopstra, Associate Professor
Department of Ecosystem Science and Management
Texas A&M University
Research Interests: Gene expression and function during wood development; regulation and function of genes induced by water deficit stress; pecan genetic diversity.
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Chris Maier, Research Biological Scientist
Forest Genetics & Biological Foundations
U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station
Research Interests: Stand-level carbon cycling in loblolly pine in response to changes in nutrient and moisture availability; characterization of growth, carbon exchange and carbon allocation of loblolly pine under varied nutrient and atmospheric CO2.
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Daniel Markewitz, Professor, Soil Site Productivity

Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources

University of Georgia

Research Interests: Quantifying how nutrient and hydrologic cycles control the chemistry of forest soils, drainage waters, and forest productivity.

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Timothy A. Martin, Professor, Tree Physiology; Co-Director, Forest Biology Research Cooperative

School of Forest Resources and Conservation

University of Florida

Research Interests: Tree physiology; mechanisms controlling productivity, carbon and water flux in trees and forests.

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Steve McKeand, Professor of Forestry and Environmental Resources; Director, Tree Improvement Program

Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources

North Carolina State University

Research Interests: Support of the Tree Improvement Program’s breeding program, with primary responsibility in the breeding, testing, and selection phases of the program.

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Steve McNulty, USDA Associate Professor; Southern Global Change Program

Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources

North Carolina State University

Research Interests: Landscape to regional to scale forest ecosystem modeling including forest hydrology, productivity, resource economics, and wildlife and forest diversity; interactions and response of forests to global climate change and other environmental stresses.

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Mark Megalos, Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist

Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources

North Carolina State University

Research Interests:  Landowner incentives; programmatic impacts; biomass; conservation strategies.

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Martha Monroe, Professor and Extension Specialist

School of Forest Resources and Conservation

University of Florida

Research Interests: Environmental education and extension; conservation behavior; human dimensions of wildland-urban interface issues.

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Dana Nelson, Project Leader/Research Geneticist

Forest Genetics and Biological Foundations

U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station

Research Interests: Host-pathogen genetics; population and quantitative genetics of southern pines; DNA marker development and genome mapping; comparative genomics of southern pines and related conifers

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Asko Noormets, Research Assistant Professor

Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources

North Carolina State University

Research Interests: Forest ecophysiology; regulation of respiration; carbon and water balance in changing climate; management and disturbance effects on ecosystem function

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John Nowak, Entomologist, Southrn Pine Beetle Prevention Restoration Coordinator

Forest Health Protection, Southern Region

U.S. Forest Service

Research Interests: Forest health protection; forest entomology; southern pine beetle.

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Gary Peter, Professor, Forest Genomics and Cell Biology; Co-Director, Cooperative Forest Genetics Research Program

School of Forest Resources and Conservation

University of Florida

Research Interests: Forest genomics, biotechnology, and cell biology; studies of development of plant vascular system

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Lisa Samuelson, Professor; Director, Center for Longleaf Pine Ecosystems

School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences

Auburn University

Research Interests: Tree physiological responses to environmental and silvicultural influences; climate change response and carbon sequestration in southern forests; influence of intensive management on soil respiration in loblolly pine; mechanisms controlling maximum carrying capacity in loblolly pine

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Shobha Sriharan, Professor

Department of Agriculture and Human Ecology

Virginia State University

Research Interests: Environmental science; air and water quality; remote sensing and GIS; environmental education.

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Jose Stape, Associate Professor of Forest Nutrition; Co-Director Forest Nutrition Cooperative

Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources

North Carolina State University

Research Interests: Forest nutrition; plantation forestry in southeastern U.S. and Latin America.

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Brian Strahm, Assistant Professor of Forest Soils and Ecology

Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation

Virginia Tech

Research Interests: forest soils, ecological restoration, carbon and nutrient cycling, biogeochemistry, ecosystem ecology, reforestation, soil-plant-atmosphere interactions, sustainability, chemistry of soil interfaces, effects of land use and global change on soil properties, processes, and function.

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Ge Sun, Research Hydrologist

Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center

U.S. Forest Service Southern Research Station

Research Interests: Effects of climate change and land management on water quantity and quality; quantification of water balances at multiple temporal and spatial scales; impacts of global change on water supply and demand; hydrology of forested wetland ecosystems.

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Eric Taylor, Associate Professor & Extension Specialist

Department of Ecosystem Science and Management

Texas A&M University

Research Interests: Ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration, woody bioenergy, traditional pine silviculture, landscape forestry, and wildland/urban interface management opportunities and issues.

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Robert Teskey, Distinguished Research Professor, Physiology, Forest Ecology

Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources

University of Georgia

Research Interests: Physiology; forest ecology; how the environment affects physiological processes in trees, and, in turn, ecosystem functions; how trees acquire and use resources from the air and soil; how trees cope with biotic and abiotic stresses; factors that control forest productivity and carbon sequestration.

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Valerie Thomas, Assistant Professor

Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation

Virginia Tech

Research Interests: Remote sensing of forest canopy structure and function using lidar and hyperspectral technology; integration of these data with micrometeorological measurements to model canopy-scale photosynthesis; evaluation of the impact of local heterogeneity on estimates of carbon exchange.

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Jason Vogel, Assistant Professor

Department of Ecosystem Science and Management

Texas A&M University

Research Interests: Ecosystem management; the physical environment; plant and microbial communities effects on cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and other nutrients through terrestrial ecosystems; forest productivity responses to silvicultural treatments and how this response affects soil carbon and nutrient cycling through changes in tree biomass allocation.

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Jason West, Assistant Professor

Department of Ecosystem Science and Management

Texas A&M University

Research Interests:

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Ross Whetten, Associate Professor

Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources

North Carolina State University

Research Interests: Biochemistry and molecular biology of tree growth and development.

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Rodney Will, Associate Professor

Department of Resource, Ecology and Management

Oklahoma State University

Research Interests: Effects of silvicultural treatments on growth, productivity, and physiology of forest stands; environmental effects on the photosynthesis and respiration of trees; canopy dynamics of forest stands; effects of global climate change on trees and forests.

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Duncan Wilson, Assistant Professor

Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management

Oklahoma State University

Research Interests: Ecological data-model integration with Bayesian methods; ecological risk analysis; efficient sampling methods for terrestrial carbon stocks restoration ecology in prairie and pine-oak savanna systems, belowground dynamics, tree-grass interactions, carbon sequestration in tall-grass  prairie-savanna systems; forest restoration dynamics and wildlife habitat interactions; soil-site quality relationships in dry-land ecosystems.

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Randolph Wynne, Professor of Forestry; Remote Sensing

Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation

Virginia Tech

Research Interests: Application of remote sensing to forestry, natural resource management, ecological modeling, and earth system science.

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