Faculty of Forestry Research Areas
The Faculty of Forestry is very fortunate to have an excellent group of researchers that cover many areas of forest research including forest conservation, forest fires, wildlife management, urban forests, wood products, forest management and much more. Click on any of the research areas below to find out more about our research staff and their past and current research.
- Bark Biorefinery
- Bioenergy
- Centre for Biocomposites and Biomaterials Processing
- Fire (Firelab website)
- Forest Biomaterial Science (FBS Website)
- Forest Economics and Community Governance
- Forest Management
- Temperate Forest Ecology
- Tropical Forest Ecology
- Urban Forestry
Carleton, T.J.,
BSc (Hons.) (London), M.Sc. (Wales), PhD (Toronto),
Associate Professor
Forest vegetation and ecology.
Caspersen, J.
PBA. (Oberlin), PhD (University of Connecticut).
Associate Professor
Forest ecology, stand dynamics, silviculture, carbon cycling, and modeling
Kenney, W.A.,
BScF (Lakehead), MSc (Guelph), PhD (Toronto),
Senior Lecturer
Urban and community forestry and agroforestry.
Malcolm, J.R.,
BSc, MSc (Guelph), PhD (Florida),
Associate Professor
Wildlife (small mammal) ecology, community ecology, tropical ecosystems, and landscape ecology. Smith, Dr. Sandy
Thomas,S.C.,
BA (Swarthmore), PhD (Harvard).
Associate Professor
Specialization: applied forest ecology and silviculture; comparative ecology and ecophysiology of forest trees; forest canopy biology; ecological aspects of global environmental change; old-world tropical forests.
Caspersen, J.
PBA. (Oberlin), PhD (University of Connecticut).
Associate Professor
Forest ecology, stand dynamics, silviculture, carbon cycling, and modeling
Malcolm, J.R.,
BSc, MSc (Guelph), PhD (Florida),
Associate Professor
Wildlife (small mammal) ecology, community ecology, tropical ecosystems, and landscape ecology.
Thomas,S.C.,
BA (Swarthmore), PhD (Harvard).
Associate Professor
Specialization: applied forest ecology and silviculture; comparative ecology and ecophysiology of forest trees; forest canopy biology; ecological aspects of global environmental change; old-world tropical forests.
Caspersen, J.
PBA. (Oberlin), PhD (University of Connecticut).
Associate Professor
Forest ecology, stand dynamics, silviculture, carbon cycling, and modeling
Kant, S.,
BE (Hons) (India), MA (Toronto), PhD (Toronto),
Professor
Forest resource economics and forest management systems.
Malcolm, J.R.,
BSc, MSc (Guelph), PhD (Florida),
Associate Professor
Wildlife (small mammal) ecology, community ecology, tropical ecosystems, and landscape ecology.
Martell, D.M.
B.A.Sc. (1971), M.A.Sc. (1972), and Ph.D. (1975) in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto
Professor
Fire and forest management planning.
Smith, S.M.,
BScAgr, MSc (Guelph), PhD (Toronto),
Dean and Professor
Forest entomology, biological control, biodiversity indices, and insect behaviour.
Thomas,S.C.,
BA (Swarthmore), PhD (Harvard).
Associate Professor
Specialization: applied forest ecology and silviculture; comparative ecology and ecophysiology of forest trees; forest canopy biology; ecological aspects of global environmental change; old-world tropical forest
Kant, S.,
BE (Hons) (India), MA (Toronto), PhD (Toronto),
Professor
Forest resource economics and forest management systems.
Singh, N. M.
BSc (India), Masters in Forestry Mgmt. (India), PhD (Michigan State)
Assistant Professor
Specialization: Political Ecology; Community Forestry; Gender, Environment, & Development.
Kenney, W.A.,
BScF (Lakehead), MSc (Guelph), PhD (Toronto),
Senior Lecturer
Urban and community forestry and agroforestry.
Smith, C.T.,
BA ( Virginia), MS ( Vermont), PhD ( Maine).
Professor
Forest ecology and soils, environmental sustainability of managed forests, bioenergy, forest utilization of effluent, wood ash and biosolids.