Tag: silviculture

Welcoming Dr. Yvette Dickinson

Yvette Dickinson

Dr. Yvette Dickinson has joined SFRES as Assistant Professor of Silviculture.

Dickinson, who hails from New Zealand, is an avid fly-fisherman, hiker, and amateur naturalist. In 2011, she completed her Ph.D. in Forest Resources at Pennsylvania State University, studying the influence of silvicultural management on forest structure. Dickinson comes to us from Colorado State University, where she completed her post-doctoral work and taught silviculture and forest management.

In the News: Linda Nagel

Associate Professor Linda Nagel

The Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science (NIACS) reported in its June newsletter that Associate Professor Linda Nagel has received US Department of Agriculture Forest Service funding for a new project titled Adapting silviculture in the context of climate change. It will involve land-management studies that take climate change factors into account in a number of experimental forests across the nation.