Forestry and Natural Resources Seminar Series

Aug. 25

1st Week of Class - Students enrolled in FOR 601,
FOR 801, or NR 601 meet for class 1218 Jordan

Labor Day - no seminar

Sept. 8

Gary Blank

Associate Professor,

Director of Undergraduate Programs Dept. of Forestry & Environmental Resources

Summer course in the Pacific Northwest: Sustainable Use of Natural Resources

Sept 15

Ted Shear
Associate Professor,

Dept. of Forestry & Environmental Resources

Sept 22

Dani Wise Johnson

Stream Restoration

Siamak Khorram

Professor. Dept. of Forestry & Environmental Resources

Director, Center for Earth Observation

Information Technology (past, present, and future trends)

Oct. 6

Peter McPherson

President, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges

Borlaug Lecture*

*Location TBD

Oct. 13

Chris Moorman

Associate Professor, and Students,  Dept. of Forestry & Environmental Resources

Nicaragua Wildlife and Ecotourism Study Tour

CNR Meeting

Michael Roberts

Assistant Professor,

Agricultural and Resource Economics, NCSU

Cost-Saving Procurement Auctions for Environmental Services

Nov. 3

Terhi Koskelo

Finnish Forest Institute, Metla

Forest biodiversity protection policy in Finland - acceptance and rejection of conservation schemes by private forest owners

TBA

TBA

Frank Koch
Research Assistant Professor, Dept of Forestry & Environmental Resources, NCSU; USDA Forest Service Forest Health Monitoring Program, RTP

TBA

Chris Gough

Virginia Commonwealth University

Forest Ecology

Yang Lixin

Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Forestry & Environmental Resources

Preserving Sacred Natural Sites in Southwest China

MLK Holiday - no seminar

Sam Pearsall
Director of Science
The Nature Conservancy - NC Chapter

Ecosystem resilience and adapting to sea level rise in coastal NC

Elizabeth Nichols
Assistant Professor
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources

Dendroforensics / Phytotechnologies

Damian Maddalena
Graduate student, and
Justin Shedd
Research Associate
Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management

I Can See My House From Here: Data Visualization and Dissemination using the Google Earth Interface

April James
Assistant Professor
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources

3-D Physics-Based Modeling of Hillslope Hydrology: An experimentalist's view

David Nowak

USDA Forest Service

Assessing Ecosystem Services in Urban and Urbanizing Areas

Spring Break - no seminar

Prof. Dr. Uwe E. Schmidt
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany
Institute for Forest and Environmental Policy, Forest History

German impact and influences on American forestry until World War II

Robert Jetton
Research Associate, Camcore, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources

Ex situ Conservation and Genetic Diversity Studies of Eastern and Carolina hemlock in the Southern Appalachian Mountains by Camcore

Len van Zyl
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Forest Biotechnology, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources

Microarray technology and its applications in the agricultural and pharmaceutical industries

Joe Roise
Professor, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources

The Kracken: Harvesting Small Diameter Woody Biomass

Jeff Vincent
Clarence F. Korstian Professor of Forest Economics and Management, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University.

Mangroves save lives in storms

Kevin Potter
Research Assistant Professor
Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources

TBD

Susan Moore and Students
College of Natural Resources

Study Abroad: Chile