Forestry sciences

Forestry graduate students learn from a dynamic and diverse group of researchers who educate and communicate how forests and the products that are created from them contribute to the well-being of all living things. The health and sustainability of forests and the people who depend on them...

Master of Applied Science in Forestry (MASc)

�� Forestry offers a research (thesis) -based Master's program within a Science (MSc) or an Applied Science (MASc) credential. Thesis Master's students receive training in research techniques, and also make contributions in their own right to the body of knowledge. The type of work undertaken by...

Master of Forestry (MF)

The Master of Forestry (MF) is a course-based degree program offered as part of a dual-degree partnership with other European and Canadian Universities. We offer two streams for the MF degree: TRANSFOR-M (Transatlantic Forestry Master) or Green Business. This partnership is a unique course-based...

Master of Geomatics for Environmental Management (MGEM)

The Master of Geomatics for Environmental Management (MGEM) is a new 9-month, course-based master’s program that provides the geospatial skills and landscape ecology context required to tackle pressing environmental issues. It is a 9-month program which begins in August with a 3-week intensive and...

Master of International Forestry (MIF)

Today’s forest conservation and resource management decisions are made in the context of global agreements and international competition for forest products and services. Decision makers and practitioners must be prepared to compete in rapidly changing social, economic or cultural settings. The...

Master of Science in Forestry (MSc)

The Master of Science in Forestry (MSc) is a research (thesis) based Master's program. Students receive training in research techniques, and also make contributions in their own right to the body of knowledge. The type of work undertaken by an MSc in Forestry student tends to be focused, looking at...

Master of Sustainable Forest Management (MSFM)

The Master of Sustainable Forest Management (MSFM) is a 9-month, course-based master’s program that prepares students for careers as forestry professionals and sets the stage for life-long learning. The MSFM provides advanced study in natural resource stewardship. Program components include: tree...

Master of Urban Forestry Leadership (MUFL)

Highly-qualified urban forestry professionals are becoming increasingly necessary in cities around the world due to the rapid pace and scale of urbanization, the need to adapt to multiple impacts of climate change in cities, and increasing demand from the public for the recreational, psychological...

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�� Researchers conducting research in Forestry sciences

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Boedhihartono, Agni

Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forestry sciences; Other studies in human society, n.e.c.; Visual arts and media arts, n.e.c.; Natural resource management; biodiversity; Communities and Livelihoods; conservation; Forest management; Land-use Change; social science; sustainability; Tropical Landscapes and Livelihoods; Arts and Conservaion; Landstewardship; Traditional Ecological Knowledge; Arts for Conservation; Visual anthropology; Forests and Societies

Burton, Cole

Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forestry sciences; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Ecological Trends; Animal; Biodiversity and Biocomplexity; Landscape and Restoration; Environment Management and Protection; Biodiversity conservation; Ecological Monitoring; Landscape ecology; Mammal Ecology; Population and Community Ecology; Wildlife Management

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Cardinal-McTeague, Warren

Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Earth and related environmental sciences; Forestry sciences; plant biodiversity; Indigenous environmental management and food systems; monitoring of ecosystem health and function

Coops, Nicholas Charles

Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forestry sciences; Telemetry (Remote Sensing, Radar); Space Techniques; Forestry Technology and Equipment; Plants and Forests

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Dai, Chunping

Department of Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forestry sciences; Bamboo; Bio-products; Wood Products; Wood Science; Wood Technology

Devisscher, Tahia

Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forestry sciences; adaptation; climate change; Human Health; Human Well-being; Nature Recovery; Social-Ecological Resilience

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El-Kassaby, Yousry

Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forestry sciences; Applied Genetics; conservation; genomics; Seed orchards’ genetics; Tree breeding; Tree domestication

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Gaston, Christopher

Department of Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forestry sciences; markets and economics for Canadian wood products

Grenz, Jennifer

Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forestry sciences

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Lam, Tzeng Yih

Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Quantitiative methods in forestry; Forestry management and environment; Statistical theory and modeling; Survey methodology and analysis; Bayesian Filtering; Forest Inventory; Growth and Yield; Sampling Theory; silviculture; Timber; Tree Measurement

Loss, Cristiano

Department of Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forestry sciences; Wood; Engineered Wood Solutions; Engineering Wood Design; Hybrid Wood-Based Systems; Industrialised Wood Systems; Seismic Design and Analysis of Timber Structures; Timber Engineering; Wood Building Systems; Wood as Structural Material

LU, JULIET

Department of Forest Resources Management, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forest ecology; Economic geography; Environmental sociology; conflicts and governance issues around resource extraction and intensive land use; transnational land investments; promotion of monoculture plantations at the expense of more biodiverse systems; private sector sustainable governance initiatives

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Mitchell, Matthew

Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (non-G+PS member)

Terrestrial ecology; Forest ecology; Agricultural ecology; Ecosystem services; urban ecology; Biodiversity conservation; social-ecological systems; Landscape ecology; Agroecosystems

Montwe, David

Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forestry sciences; climate change; Drought and climate change; Evaluating silvicultural treatments on timber quality and value; Forest management; Increasing forest resilience to climatic extremes using silvicultural interventions; Long-term resilience; Reducing impacts from forest disturbance agents under climate change; Regeneration; silviculture; Species selection

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Rhemtulla, Jeanine

Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forestry sciences; Ecology and Quality of the Environment; Ecological Trends; Landscape and Restoration; Environment Management and Protection; Biodiversity and Biocomplexity; Conservation & Poverty Alleviation; Ecosystem services; Landscape ecology & spatial analysis; Reforestation; socio-ecological systems; Temperate & tropical forest & agroforestry systems

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Sayer, Jeffrey

Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forestry sciences; biodiversity; Communities and Livelihoods; Forest policy; Forest conservation in Indonesia; Land-use Change; Reconciling conservation and development in tropical forest landscapes; sustainability; Tropical Landscapes and Livelihoods; Tropical forest conservation

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Tu, Qingshi

Department of Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forestry biomass and bioproducts; Earth and related environmental sciences; Systems engineering; Environmental engineering; Biomass (Energy); Sustainable Development; Modelization and Simulation; Biofuels and bioproducts; climate change; Computational modeling; Forest biorefineries; Industrial ecology; Life cycle assessment; Sustainable bioeconomy; Machine Learning

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Wolkovich, Elizabeth

Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Forestry sciences; biodiversity; climate change; Conservation science; Global change; Plant communities; Plant invasions; Population and ecosystem ecology; Temporal ecology; Winegrapes

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Zerriffi, Hisham

Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry

Faculty (G+PS eligible/member)

Environmental geography; Forestry biomass and bioproducts; Modelling and applications of systems; Environment and natural resources economics; Environmental policy; Biomass (Energy); Energy Transformation and Energy Using; International development; Environment and Society; Ideological, Political, Economical and Social Environments of Social Transformations; Social and Cultural Factors of Environmental Protection; energy poverty

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Student & Alumni Stories in Forestry sciences

Dessie Tibebu

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Modeling Molecular Simulation Through Wood Cell Wall

Ira Sutherland

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Ecosystem services recovery in an era of novel forest disturbances

Samuel Adeyanju

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

People, projects, and poverty: Investigating the effectiveness of livelihood interventions implemented in Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs) in Northern Ghana

Roseanna Gamlen-Greene

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Western Toad ecology on Haida Gwaii: threats, genetics and conservation

Estefanía Milla-Moreno

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Phytoremediation of Tailings from a Chilean Copper Mine

Jonathan Reich

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Monitoring airborne spores of fungal pathogens to predict plant disease risk across Canada

Sarah Dickson-Hoyle

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Wildfire as a catalyst for co-management: Indigenous knowledge, stewardship and restoration of (post)fire landscapes in British Columbia

Debra Wertman

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Evolution of bark beetle-fungus mutualisms: insights from a novel association between the alder bark beetle and a Neonectria canker pathogen

Zhaohua Cheng

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Greening for Cooler Cities: Urban forest based solutions for optimal cooling and social (livability) co-benefits, in the context of densification and climate change

Natalie Payer

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Shining a Light on Energy Injustice: Solar Energy Access and Urban Energy Poverty in the United States

Gabriela Barragan Altamirano

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Planning forests for the future: incorporating multiple goals in forest restoration initiatives

Amanda Johnson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Bioplastic from agroforestry waste: end-of-life management

Kate Peterson

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Climate-sensitive forest growth and yield modelling

Debbie Pierce

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

The impact of land rights and deforestation on women in the Colombian Amazon

Christina Howard

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Climate sensitive growth and suitability modeling of Québec tree species

Jen Baron

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

A century of transformation: Fire regime transitions, drivers, and consequences in southeastern British Columbia

Gracie Crafts

Student

Master of Science in Forestry (MSc)

Cultural fire impact on culturally-significant plants and increasing biodiversity at Vaseux Lake, BC

Miah Godek

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Wildfire resilience and Indigenous cultural burning in the Okanagan Valley, British Columbia

Abiodun Ilemobayo

Student

Master of Science in Forestry (MSc)

Impacts of oil pollution on forest ecosystems in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

Pablo Gonzalez Moctezuma

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Small farms and their role in land use transitions in Mexico

Sofie McComb

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Evaluating cumulative impacts to inform effective conservation decisions in a biodiversity hotspot

Marie Boulinaud

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Blaming swidden cultivation in the Philippines: evidence, consequences and understandings for Indigenous Peoples

Samadhee Kaluarachchi

Student

Master of Science in Forestry (MSc)

Quantifying flood risk and sensitivity through causal inference methods in British Columbia

Andrea Vasquez Fernandez

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Addressing violent conflicts through understandings of “respect”: A collaborative research with the Asheninka and Yine Peoples from the Peruvian Amazon

Mike Stefanuk

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Fire regimes from past to future in dry interior forests of the Cariboo region, British Columbia

Andrea Lyall

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

A Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation’s relationship with the forests: the forest is our cupboard, the sea is our fridge

Milos Simovic

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Botany (PhD)

Ecophysiology of yellow-cedar decline

Katie McMahen

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Methods for promoting recovery of the soil food web in mine reclamation

Xing Zhang

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Seismic performance of timber-steel hybrid shear wall system

Yemi Adeyeye

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

The Politics of Knowledge in Multi-Level Forest Governance: Perceptions, Roles and Contested Narratives of Knowledge across Scales

Leah Rettenbacher

Student

Master of Science in Forestry (MSc)

Heteroecism and autoecism in pine rusts

Anna Smith

Student

Master of Science in Forestry (MSc)

The impact of sub-lethal zinc contamination on the successful detection of olfactory alarm cues in juvenile coho salmon.

Winy Vasquez

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Food security in the Amazon: an investigation of the food security and nutrition of the Asháninka peoples living inside the Protected Forest San Matias-San Carlos

Tonya Smith

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Lil'wat Food Security and Ecosystem Services

Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Wildfire: Building Socially and Ecologically Resilient Communities in the British Columbia Interior

José Arias-Bustamante

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Contested lands and climate change: A case study of adaptation to change in the context of Mapuche People

Sophie Lewis

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

The interaction of the International Forest Regime with forest governance and forest dependent peoples in Cambodia.

David Moulton

Student

Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD)

Effects of temperature, pathogens, and fishing gear on spawning migrations of Pacific salmon

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Program Specializations in Forestry sciences

Forestry

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Academic Units in Forestry sciences

Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences

Department of Forest Resources Management

Department of Wood Science

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French Name

Sciences de la foresterie

French Description

Cette classe comprend la recherche et le développement expérimental en sciences de la foresterie.

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