Name |
Titles |
Area of expertise |
email |
Brosofske, Kimberley
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Research Assistant Professor
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kdbrosof@mtu.edu |
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Research
Associate
Professor
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Forest responses to global change factors
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Belowground processes
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Carbon and nutrient cycling
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Physiological ecology of tree roots
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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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- Applied wetland ecology
- Riparian and wetland restoration
- Peatlands
- Mountain wetlands
- Tropical peatlands
- Ecosystem carbon cycling
- Wetland ecohydrology
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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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- Wetland Ecology
- Hydrological Modeling
- Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in Wetlands
- Wetland Classification and Mapping
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Assistant
Professor |
- Landscape Ecology
- Molecular Ecology
- Herpetology
- Conservation Biology
- Ecological Genetics
- Behavioral Ecology
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- Sociology of natural resources
- Natural resource and environmental policy
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Research
Associate Professor
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- Tree-wide metabolic networks for carbon storage and mobilization
- Biochemical signal transduction
- Stress physiology of trees
- Functional genomics of signaling and general metabolism
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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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- Genetic aspects of air pollution and climate change
- Improving forest productivity in northern regions
- Functional genomics of environmental responses, growth, and flowering
- Breeding and engineering of economically important traits in trees
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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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- 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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Sigrid Resh |
Adjunct Assistant Professor |
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Research
Scientist II
and
Adjunct
Associate
Professor
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- 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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jcrivard@mtu.edu |
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- Management and silviculture of northern hardwoods and boreal forests
- Timber harvesting and site preparation effects on forest regeneration
- Forest growth and yield modeling and stand visualization and linkages to GIS
- 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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Catherine Tarasoff |
Adjunct Assistant Professor |
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- Phenolic metabolism: lignin, flavonoid and phenolic glycoside biosynthesis
- Functional genomics: EST, microarray gene profiling, metabolite fingerprinting
- Wood formation: cytoskeleton and one-carbon metabolism
- Forest biotechnology: metabolic engineering, woody plant transformation, cryopreservation
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- Demographic and genetic elements of population biology
- Ecology of wolves and moose
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Research
Assistant
Professor
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- Isle Royale wolf genetics
- Field research methods
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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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Visiting Assistant Professor |
Dendrology, undergraduate education, first-year students, FRES Learning Community and scheduling |
msweeg@mtu.edu |