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College of Natural Resources
Forestry and Environmental Resources

Department Seminars

About

Each week the Forestry and Environmental Resources department invites distinguished speakers to share their cutting edge research with the department. Seminars are open to anyone interested and is also part of the course curriculum for students enrolled in FOR 801.

In Spring 2025 we meet on Fridays from 9:35 AM to 10:35 AM in Jordan Hall 1220. Light refreshments will be provided.

These will not be recorded. Open to all interested – feel free to share!

Schedule

  • 1/10/2025
    • Robert Jetton – Expanding the Toolbox: Integrating Silviculture into Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Management in the Southern Appalachians
  • 1/17/2025
    • Kemen Austin (Wildlife Conservation Society) – Natural Climate Solutions: opportunities, constraints, and finance needs
  • 1/24/2025
    • Debjani Sihi (PBM) – Modeling and mapping soil carbon and greenhouse gas dynamics across scales
  • 1/31/2025
    • Ritwick Ghosh – Making and unmaking biodiversity offset credits.
  • 2/7/2025
    • Deanna Knighton (CNR) – Leafing Through Careers: Staying Rooted and Branching Out When Searching in Uncertain Times
  • 2/14/2025
    • David Wear (Resources for the Future) – Costs and incentives for fuel treatment programs in the West
  • 2/21/2025
    • Miho Iryo-Asano (Nagoya University) – Street as a space for sustainability — challenges toward safe, comfort and green transportation in Japan
  • 2/28/2025
    • Nasir Shalizi – Forest management in Afghanistan: A historical and forward-looking perspective.
  • 3/7/2025
    • Rachel Cook – Scientific Update for the Forest Productivity Cooperative
  • 3/14/2025
    • Spring Break – No Seminar
  • 3/21/2025
    • Josh Gray – Why ESA isn’t a European NASA
  • 3/28/2025
    • Gaurav Dhungel (PhD Student, Forestry) – Long-term Sustainability of Oaks in the US: Role of Management and Markets
    • Hannah Desrochers (PhD Student, Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology) – The Emotional and Political Landscape of Urban White-Tailed Deer Management: Investigating Drivers of Decision-Making in an Urban Landscape
  • 4/4/2025
    • Jeff Doser – Advances in spatial models for quantifying forest attributes.
  • 4/11/2025
    • Graduate Student Presentations
  • 4/18/2025
    • Graduate Student Presentations, FER Department Awards