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Name |
Name |
Titles |
Area
of expertise |
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Research Assistant
Professor
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- Animal - ecosystem links
- Stable isotopes in wildlife ecology
- Natural Resource Policy
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- Forest responses to global change
factors
- Belowground processes
- Carbon and nutrient cycling
- Physiological ecology of tree roots
- Undergraduate involvement in research
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- Functional genomics of woody development.
- Gibberellins metabolism and signal
transduction pathways.
- Molecular biology of adventitious and
lateral root formation.
- Small RNA regulation of wood formation
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- Forest canopy structure and function
- Forest response to global change
- Carbon and water cycling through forests
- Tree ecophysiology
- Stable isotope ecology
- Invasive tree species
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- Applied wetland ecology
- Riparian and wetland restoration
- Peatlands
- Mountain wetlands
- Tropical peatlands
- Ecosystem carbon cycling
- Wetland ecohydrology
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Professor |
Atmospheric Sciences,
Environmental Engineering, Environmental Biogeochemistry and
Sustainability |
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Assistant Professor |
Remote sensing of vegetation structure and composition
LiDAR remote sensing
Forest mensuration and biometrics
Landscape ecology
Wildlife habitat modeling
Remote sensing of active fire and post-fire effects
Fire ecology
Spatial ecology
Statistics
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- Conservation biology
- Avian ecology and reproduction
- Cascading effects of deer overbrowse
- Island ecology
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- Quantitative silviculture and forest
biometrics
- Sampling, inventory and monitoring
program design
- Decision support systems for sustainable
ecosystem management
- Inventory and management of ecosystem
biomass and carbon
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Assistant
Professor |
Ecological Genetics
and Genomics
Population Genetics of Forest Trees
Conservation Genetics
Genetic Mapping and QTL analyses
Forensic Genetics |
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- Wetland Ecology
- Hydrological Modeling
- Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Wetlands
- Wetland Classification and Mapping
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- Sociology of natural resources
- Natural resource and environmental policy
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- Geographic Information Systems
- Cartography
- Global Positioning Systems
- Great Lakes Quaternary (glacial)
geomorphology
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- Cellulose and lignin biosynthesis in
trees
- Wood formation
- Tree growth and development
- Engineering trees
- Forest Bioinformatics
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- Forest soil productivity, management and
sustainability
- Global climate change impact on soil
biology
- Organic matter decomposition and
ecosystem nutrient cycling
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Research Assistant Professor
|
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Soil carbon
-
Plant/soil relationships
-
Decomposition
-
Dissolved organic carbon
-
Wildfire
-
Black Carbon
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- Durability of wood-based composite
building materials
- Novel preservative systems for treatment
of solid wood
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- Remote sensing
- Digital image processing
- Geographic information systems
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Assistant Professor |
Environmental Policy
and Environmental Science
- Sociology of natural resources
- Natural resource and environmental policy
|
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- Forest vegetation dynamics
- Silviculture of the Great Lakes region
- Invasive plant species in forested
ecosystems
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- Forestry in developing nations
- Thimbleberries
- Forest economics
- Land use in the Upper Peninsula
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- Mammalian ecology
- Predator-prey relationships
- Ecology and behavior of gray wolves
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- Optimal bucking of hardwood logs
- Log bucker training to increase value
recovery
- Approaches for adapting to risk and
uncertainty in optimization models
|
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Assistant
Professor |
Forest Hydrology
Micrometeorology
Ecohydrology
Carbon Cycling
Stable isotopes |
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Research
Assistant
Professor |
Forest carbon dynamics
Soil carbon sequestration
Forest restoration
Isotope applications in forests |
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Research
Scientist II and
Adjunct
Associate
Professor
|
- Forest mycology, pathology, fungal
ecology
- Tree and forest disease diagnosis and
assessment
- Wood decay & mold/stain testing
- Mycorrhizae, plants and mushrooms
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Lecturer |
- White Pine Establishment
- Mid-tolerant Hardwoods
- Forest Health and Diversity
- Maple Syrup Production
- Using Technology to Assist in Forest
Management
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Management and
silviculture of northern hardwoods and boreal forests
Timber harvesting and site preparation effects on forest regeneration
Forest recreational development and management |
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- Forest insect ecology
- Insect/fungus/plant interactions in
forest ecosystems
- Impacts of exotic species on forest
ecosystems
- Interactions among fire, insects and
disease in forests
- Urban forest health
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Assistant Professor |
Invasion ecology
Road ecology
Applied restoration and weed control
Stress tolerance and competition |
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- Demographic and genetic elements of
population biology
- Ecology of wolves and moose
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- Gap dynamics and disturbance ecology
- Invasion biology of exotic species
- Landscape ecology
- Plant community response to herbivory
- Restoration silviculture
- Wildlife habitat relationships
|
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Hairong Wei
hairong@mtu.edu |
Assistant
Professor |
Plant Bioinformatics
Systems Biology (gene networks)
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Lecturer |
Teaching
and Environmental Education
Wolf/Prey Ecology |
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Research
Assistant
Professor |
Plant Molecular
Biology and biochemistry
Amino acid metabolism
Virus induced Gene silencing
Cellulose biosynthesis in plants |
