Meet our Extension faculty and staff.

Forest Resources

  • Associate Research Professor
  • Fire and Natural Resources Management

Areas of Expertise

  • Fire Ecology
  • Fire Behavior and Effects
  • Associate Professor of Forest Resources Management

Areas of Expertise

  • Social and economic values associated with private forests, including prescribed fire, wildlife, and carbon sequestration.
  • Director, James C. Finley Center for Private Forests at Penn State
  • Associate Research Professor, Private Forests Management

Areas of Expertise

  • Forest stewardship
  • Private forest landowners
  • Woodland care
  • Collaborative learning
  • Action research
  • Peer-to-peer education

Invasions Ecology

Urban and Community Forestry

  • Professor and Ibberson Chair in Community and Urban Forestry

Areas of Expertise

  • Technical assistance to municipalities in preparation and enactment of environmental ordinances and other policy.

Water Resources

  • Assistant Research Professor
  • Watershed Management Extension Specialist

Areas of Expertise

  • Watershed Management
  • Water Quality
  • Nitrogen Cycle
  • Biogeochemistry
  • Conservation Practices
  • Soil-Water Interactions
  • Water Resources Extension Specialist

Areas of Expertise

  • Water Quality
  • Drinking Water Treatment
  • Private Water Systems
  • Emerging Contaminants

Wildlife

  • Professor of Wildlife Resources
  • Extension Wildlife Specialist

Areas of Expertise

  • Avian ecology
  • Effects of shale gas development on forests and birds
  • forest songbirds
  • Human impacts on bird population
  • Wildlife habitat management on private lands
  • Landscaping for birds and wildlife

Youth

  • Teaching Professor in Forest Resources and
  • Natural Resources & Youth Extension Specialist

Areas of Expertise

  • Youth and Natural Resources Education
  • Forest Stewardship
  • Natural Resources Volunteerism
  • Private Forestland Management
  • Connecting Youth with Nature
  • Forest Dendrology and Botany