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Adjunct Professors

Dr. Mike Apps
  • National carbon cycle modelling
  • Climate change

Dr. Peter de Groot
  • Insect pheromones and kairomones
  • Host finding and location
  • Tree stress and insect ecology
  • Evolution of insect species through host use
  • Insect response to forest management practices
  • General biology and ecology of seed and cone insects
  • Wood borers
  • Phloem feeder and shoot insects
  • Resistance of trees to insects
E-Mail: pdegroot@nrcan.gc.ca

Dr. Peter Duinker
  • Forest policy
  • Forest management planning
  • Wildlife habitat analysis
  • Biodiversity planning
  • Forest tenure
  • Public participation
  • Conflict resolution
  • climate change
  • Environmental assessment
E-Mail: peter.duinker@dal.Ca

Dr. Steven Ferguson
  • Wildlife
E-Mail: steven.ferguson@lakeheadu.ca
Web: http://flash.lakeheadu.ca/~fergusos/ferguson.htm

Dr. Mark Johnston
  • Boreal fire ecology
  • Comparison of fire and timber harvest as disturbance agents
  • Impacts of timber harvest on terrestrial-aquatic linkages
  • Role of boreal forests in global warming
  • Economic analysis of forest values in mitigating global change

Dr. Rob Mackereth
  • Fish habitat
  • Riparian zones
  • Aquatics

Dr. Dave Morris
  • Forest site productivity
  • Nutrient cycling
  • Carbon sequestering
  • Alternative silviculture
  • Forest management impacts (harvesting methods)
  • Forest ecosystem modelling

Dr. Changhui Peng
  • Modelling forest growth
  • Climate change and forest carbon budget

Dr. Doug Pitt
  • Forest biometrics
  • Silivultural asessment
  • Sampling systems

Dr. Douglas Reid
  • Silviculture
  • Forest productivity (site quality)
  • Competition and stand dynamics within forest ecosystems
  • Tree physiology and hydraulic architecture
  • Forest hydrology
  • Influence of climate change on forest productivity
E-Mail: doug.reid@ontario.ca

Dr. Rob Rempel
  • Landscape and multiscale ecology
  • Wildlife / forestry interactions
  • Decision support systems for modelling

Dr. Dave Roden
  • Biology, physiology and behaviour of insect pests
  • Relationship between host plant with the objective of developing and evaluating ecologically sensitive alternatives that contribute to integrated pest management and sustainable forest development in urban, recreational and forested environments
  • Specialty in gypsy moth and long-horned beetles
E-Mail: droden@nrcan.gc.ca

Dr. Art Rodgers
  • Ungulates
  • Small mammals
  • Population biology
  • Habitat selection
  • Foraging behaviour
  • Wildlife management
  • Biodiversity

DR. Rob Steedman
  • Watershed management
  • Land-use effects on aquatic ecosystems
  • Forest practices in riparian areas

Dr. Ian Thompson
E-Mail: ithompson@nrcan.gc.ca

Mr. Laird Van Damme
  • Silviculture systems
  • Reforestation
  • Forest management planning
  • Direct seeding
  • Stand tending
  • Education of resource managers
E-Mail: vandamme@kbm.on.ca

Dr. Geoff Wang
  • Disturbance ecology
  • Regeneration and stand dynamics
  • Silvics of boreal tree species
  • Silviculture
  • Ecologically based growth / yield modelling
  • Knowledge-based computer systems
E-Mail: wang@uwinnipeg.ca
Web: http://www.uwinnipeg.ca/~wang/
 
Office Information
Monday - Friday
8:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
BB 1001G
Phone (807) 343-8507
Fax (807) 343-8116
 
 
 
Faculty of Natural Resources Management, Lakehead University
955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada P7B 5E1
Phone (807) 343-8507 Fax (807) 343-8116
Last Modified March 30, 2010
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