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Faculty

Teaching and Research Faculty
Name/Title Areas of Interests Location Telephone

Adams, Darius
Emeritus Professor

Forest economics, modeling and analysis of forest products markets, econometrics, forest policy.

Peavy 204

541-737-1349  W

Adams, Paul
Professor/Forest Watershed Extension Specialist
Forest soils,  public issues and policies on forest lands, Pacific Northwest policies and management for forest streams
Peavy 263
541-737-2946
Bailey, John
Associate Professor  
Silviculture, fuels and fire management, and adaptive ecosystem management
 Peavy 235
541-737-1497
Bennett, Max
Associate Professor 
 
 Central Point Extension Office
541-776-7371
Boston, Kevin
Associate Professor  
Forest transportation planning, forest road design and management systems and supply chain management for the primary forest industry

 Peavy 023
541-737-9171
Bowers, Steve
Associate Professor
Log marketing & evaluation
timber measurements

Douglas County Extension 
541-682-4243
Fitzgerald, Steve  Professor
Silviculture and wildland fire
Deschutes County Extension
541-548-6088
Fletcher, Richard
Professor 
Private forest management, certification, Christmas trees
 Benton County Extension
541-766-6750
Temesgen. Hailemariam
Associate Professor
Forest biometrics and measurement
Peavy 237 
541-737-8549
Hann, David
Professor  
Forest modeling

Peavy 053A 
541-737-2687
Hobbs, Stephen
Emeritus Professor
 
Peavy 111 
541-737-8477
Huntington, Geoffrey
Senior Instructor  

Natural Resource Policy & Law, Environmental Policy and Law Interactions

Peavy 105 
541-737-9103
Johnson, Jim
Professor/Associate Dean for Extended Education  
Forestry & Natural Resources Extension, International Forestry, and Silviculture.
Richardson 109B 
541-737-8954
Kellogg, Loren
Professor/Lematta Professor of Forest Engineering  
Forest operations analysis, small-diameter timber harvesting mechanized logging systems, thinning and fuels reduction, harvesting methods for alternative silviculture systems, international forest engineering
Peavy 261 
541-737-2836
Kiser, James
Instructor
Damage to residual trees during commercial thinning operations, response of trees and stands following commercial thinning damage, new technology development and applicaitons in forest operations including GPS, lasers and photogrammetry
Peavy 027 
541-737-4219
Landgren, Chal
Professor   
 
Washington County Extension 
503-725-2102/397-3462 
Maguire, Douglas
Professor/Giustina Professor of Forest Management
Mechanisms controlling forest growth and yield; quantitative silviculture; crown structure and dynamics; natural forest regeneration.
Richarson 312 
541-737-4215
Mc Donnell, Jeffrey
  Professor/University Distinguished Professor/Richardson Chair in Watershed Science
Conceptualization of streamflow generation processes in steep terrain, how water flowpaths on steep slopes affect slope stability, use of isotope tracers for determining water source, age and flowpath, study of forest road and logging effects on stream hydrology and water quality
Peavy 015 
541-737-8720
Montgomery, Claire
Professor
Natural resource and forest economics, econometrics
Peavy 205 
541-737-5533 
Murphy, Glen
Professor/Stewart Professor in Forest Engineering
Harvesting system productivity, economic evaluation of environmental impacts caused by harvesting, value recovery, supply chain management
Peavy 271 
541-737-2192 
Parker, Bob
Associate Professor
Forest soils; forest regeneration; timber harvesting; forest measurements
 Baker County Extension
541-523-6418 
Punches, John Associate Professor
 
Architecture and hydraulic features of Douglas-fir crowns in managed stands,Availability of large-diameter and small diameter on private lands in Western Oregon
Douglas County Extension 
541-672-4461 
Pyles, Marvin Professor/Knudson Professor of Forestry
 
Engineering properties of soils, slope stability, hydraulics and hydrology, logging mechanics, forest roads
 Peavy 269
541-737-4571 
 Reed, A Scott
Dean of Extension Services
Characterization of forest development opportunities; policy alternatives to stimulate nonindustrial private forest management; educational needs of natural resource managers and landowners; application of new technologies, program evaluation
Ballard 101 
541-737-2713 
Rose, Robin
Professor
Reforestation; plant physiology; forest nursery management; nursery stock evaluation; forest soils; vegetation management; international forestry - India, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Taiwan, New Zealand, South Africa.
Richardson 308
541-737-6580 
Sessions, Julian Professor/University Distinguished Professor/Strachan Chair of Forest OPerations Management
Wood transportation, optimal bucking practices, timber harvest scheduling, timber supply, scheduling of silviculture practices, fire hazard reduction, logging mechanics, international forestry.
Peavy 223
541-737-2818 
Shaw, David Assistant Professor
Forest health, including biology and management of Swiss needle cast in Douglas-fir, invasive insect and disease pests, silviculture and integrated pest management, the interactions of fire and forest pests, and biology and ecology of native insect and disease organisms considered pests, the biology and ecology of mistletoes.
Richardson 218
541-737-2845 
Skaugset, Arne Associate Professor
Finding pragmatic, applied solutions to environmental problems that result from the intensive management of forested terrain.
Peavy 259
541-737-3283
Tesch, Steven Professor/Executive Associate Dean
Silviculture-harvesting interactions; ecology and management of mixed conifer forests; harsh site reforestation
Peavy 150
 541-737-1585
White, Diane Instructor
Ecology and disturbance ecology
Peavy 039A
 541-737-8691
Wimer, Jeffrey Instructor
Logging safety and education; developing safety training materials for the logging community; log truck safety; log truck costing.
Peavy 025
541-737-5044 
Wing, Michael
Associate Professor
Geographic Information Systems (GIS),Global Positioning Systems (GPS), remote sensing, land surveying and geodesy , visualization and visibility analysis, crime mapping and analysis, geographic information science, digital measurement tools for natural resource applications, stream habitat, precision forestry, spatial statistics
Peavy 275
541-737-4009 
Research Assistants and Faculty Research Associates
Name/Title Areas of Interests Location Telephone
Bateman, Douglas
Senior Faculty Research Assistant
FSL 206
541-737-7784
Cole, Elizabeth
Senior Faculty Research Assistant
Richardson 201C
541-737-6106
Dinger, Eric
Faculty Research Assistant
Richardson 301C
541-737-6086 
Eskelson, Bianca
Faculty Research Associate
Post Doctorate
Peavy 267
541-737-9112
Hopp, Luisa
Research Associate Post Doctorate
Interactions between hillslope variables controlling the generation of subsurface stormflow on the hillslope scale, modeling of water and solute transport across scales, spatial and temporal variability of water flow processes in the vadose zone, parameterization of preferential flow, fate and transport of heavy metals in soils
Peavy 017 
541-737-8719 
Latta, Gregory
Senior Faculty Research Assistant
Development and application of an array of regional and national models of timber and forest products markets.
Peavy 013 
541-737-6264 
Leer, David
FSL  
Mainwaring, Doug
Senior Faculty Research Assistant
Richardson 301F
541-737-8107 
Pilkerton, Stephen
Senior Research Assistant
Peavy 053 
541-737-3236 
Simmons, Amy
Faculty Research Assistant
Peavy 267 
541-737-9112 
Chris Surfleet
Faculty Research Associate
Post Doctorate
Hydrologic and erosion processes associated with forest roads, stream habitat and land manangement monitoring, sediment and erosion control on managed timberlands, stream habitat restoration.
Peavy 267 
541-737-9112 
Woolley, Travis
Faculty Research Assistant
Disturbance ecology, restoration ecology, forest productivity and inter-annual climate variability, global change, plant community ecology, vegetation dynamics, plant, disease, and environment interactions, model validation
Richardson 214 
541-737-3826 
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