Graduate Supervisory Staff
SPECIALIZATION: forest ecology and management. Research Interests: effects of forest management on tree species diversity, carbon cycling and other biogeochemical cycles; functional ecology and silvics of northern hardwood species, uneven-aged silvicultural systems, modelling of stand, community and ecosystem dynamics.
Office: #3011, Earth Sciences Centre (416-946-8506); email: john.caspersen@utoronto.ca
SPECIALIZATION: forest vegetation ecology. Research interests: quantitative analysis of vegetation data; forest stand structure/dynamics; ecology of forest mosses. Ongoing research: mapping the forest flora of Ontario in order to develop maps of plant species ranges and abundance patterns; use of indicator species of local environmental features; effects of deer browsing on understorey forest vegetation and forest regeneration.
Office: #2053, Earth Sciences Centre (416-978-6793); email: carleton@botany.utoronto.ca
SPECIALIZATION: physical attributes of wood relating to its processing and use. Research Interests: wood deterioration and protection; wood preservation; recycling of out-of-service wood; environmental impacts of wood preservatives; wood drying; added value wood processing, wood composites.
Office: #2012, Earth Sciences Centre (416-946-5078); email: p.cooper@utoronto.ca; http://www.forestry.utoronto.ca/treated_wood/
SPECIALIZATION: forest resource economics, forest management systems. Research interests: socio-economic factors and forest management, co-management institutions, economics of uneven-aged forests, tropical deforestation, natural resource accounting, mathematical modelling.
S. KRIGSTIN, B.Sc.F., M.Sc.F., Ph.D.(Toronto). Assistant Professor, Forestry.
SPECIALIZATION: Wood Chemistry, Pulp and Paper, Bioenergy, natural fibre-polymer composites, industrial waste water treatment. Research interests: Utilization of Forest industry residues, bio-products and bioenergy. Office: #3029, Earth Sciences Centre (416-946-8507; email: sally.krigstin@utoronto.ca
SPECIALIZATION: biodiversity conservation, wildlife (especially small mammal) ecology, commnity ecology, tropical ecosystems, landscape ecology. Research interests: small mammal ecology and biogeography; diversity and abundance of tropical and temperate organisms; impacts of human-induced landscape changes on diversity and ecological processes; relationships between landscape diversity and biological diversity; forest fragmentation and edge effects; impacts of global warming on natural ecosystems; mammalian adaptations to arboreality and seasonality.
D. L. MARTELL, B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., Ph.D.(Toronto). Professor, Forestry.
SPECIALIZATION: fire and forest management systems. Research interests: the use of operational research and information technology to develop fire and forest management decision support systems, fire as a disturbance agent in boreal forest ecosystems, and sustainable forest management under uncertainty.
Office: #4009, Earth Sciences Centre (416-978-6960); email: martell@smokey.forestry.utoronto.ca
M. M. SAIN, B.Sc., M.Tech (I.I.T., Kharagpur), Ph.D.(Slovak Tech.), P.Eng. Professor, Forestry.
SPECIALIZATION: natural fibre-polymer composites, industrial waste water treatment, surface chemistry of lignocellulosics. Research interests: natural fibre reinforced thermoplastics and thermosetting nanotechnology for fibre surface and paper sizing; microtoxicity removal from water, reactive pulping.
Office: #3014, Earth Sciences Centre (416-946-3191); email: m.sain@utoronto.ca
N. SINGH, B.Sc (Delhi), MA (IIFM, India), Ph.D. (Michigan State)
SPECIALIZATION: Community-based natural resource management; democracy, development & social movements; gender, justice & environmental change.Research interests: Political ecology; democratization of forest governance; gender and equity issues in forestry, subjectivity and environment; community-based forest governance; climate change & justice; conservation, rural livelihoods & justice.
Office: #3028, Earth Sciences Centre (416-978-1879); email: neera.singh@utoronto.ca
C.T. SMITH, B.A. ( Virginia), M.S. ( Vermont), Ph.D. ( Maine). Dean and Professor, Forestry.
SPECIALIZATION: Forest ecology and soils. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Environmental sustainability of managed forests, forest biogeochemistry, carbon sequestration, bioenergy, forest utilization of effluent, wood ash and biosolids.
Office: #1016C, Earth Sciences Centre (416-978-5480); email; tat.smith@utoronto.ca
S. M. SMITH, B.Sc.Agr., M.Sc.(Guelph), Ph.D.(Toronto). Professor, Forestry.
SPECIALIZATION: forest entomology, biological control, biodiversity indices, insect behaviour, invasive species. Research interests: biological control, introduced species, insect population dynamics, biodiversity, forest pest management indicators of forest impacts, parasitoid genetics, quality control.
Office: #2011, Earth Sciences Centre (416-978-5482); email: s.smith.a@utoronto.ca
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. Research interests: impacts of forest management on plant biodiversity and community structure; canopy photosynthesis and forest carbon flux; ecology of forest understory vegetation; physiological correlates of tree growth and habitat specialization; silvicultural management of mixed-species forests; tree reproductive biology.
Office: #4012, Earth Sciences Centre (416-978-1044); email: sc.thomas@utoronto.ca
N. YAN, B.A.Sc., Ph.D.(Toronto). Associate Professor and Graduate Co-ordinator, Forestry.
SPECIALIZATION: : materials science, forest products, composites, pulp and paper, and digital printing. Research interests: performance of natural/wood fibre composites and engineered wood products, paper physics, surface adhesion and printing/paper interactions.
Office: #3037, Earth Sciences Centre (416-946-8070); email: ning.yan@utoronto.ca