Areas of Study
| Topic | Faculty Links |
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Use of plants to detect pollution |
Jagels, Wiersma |
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Influence of global climate change on forests |
Greenwood, Jagels, Livingston, White, Wiersma |
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Effects of acid fog and ozone on conifers |
Jagels |
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Climate and cold tolerance |
Livingston |
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Forest health and forest decline assessment |
Livingston, Jagels, Wiersma, Ostrofsky |
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Ecology and silviculture of northeastern species |
Seymour, White, Wagner, Cronan, Ostrofsky, Kenefic |
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Forest Vegetation Management |
Wagner |
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Wood decay fungi |
Jellison |
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Soil chemistry |
Cronan, Fernandez |
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Biogeochemistry |
Wiersma, Cronan |
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Old growth forest structure and development |
White |
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Forest nutrient cycling |
Cronan, Fernandez, Jellison |
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Tree improvement |
Carter |
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Plant reaction to environmental stress |
Jagels, Livingston, Wiersma, Ostrofsky |
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Genetic testing |
Carter |
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Reproductive and evolutionary biology of trees |
Campbell |
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Dendrochronology |
White, Livingston, Kenefic |
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Molecular biology of maturation in conifers |
Greenwood, Hutchinson |
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Modeling of forest canopy structure and stemwood growth |
Seymour, Kenefic |
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Selection and breeding of northern conifers |
Carter |
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Reproductive development of conifers |
Greenwood |
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Clonal propagation |
Greenwood |
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Plant population dynamics |
White |
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Natural products chemistry |
Cole |
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Forest Pathology |
Livingston, Ostrofsky, Jellison |
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Forest entomology |
Alford, Woods |