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2011
Annual
Report
Faculty of Forestry
University of British Columbia
April 1, 2011 – March 31, 2012
Front cover – Natural Resources Conservation (Global Perspectives Major) student Christine Terpsma on her
international exchange at Bangor University, UK.
Back cover – Natural Resources Conservation (Global Perspectives Major) student Sam Smolen on her
international exchange in Norway.
Editor: Susan B Watts, PhD, RPF
In-house design and desktop publishing at the Faculty of Forestry by Jamie Myers
© 2012, Faculty of Forestry
ISSN 1188-9837
Table of Contents
Dean’s Message
2
Students and Teaching Programs
Undergraduate Students
Programs of Study
Co-op Programs
Student Services and Recruitment
Enrolment Statistics
Awards
Graduation Statistics
Graduate Students
Achievements and Plans
Scholarships and Fellowships
Degrees Granted
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
15
International Forestry18
Aboriginal Forestry20
Faculty, Research, Development and Alumni
Office of the Dean
Faculty and Staff
22
Forest Resources Management
Faculty and Staff
24
27
Forest Sciences
Faculty and Staff
28
32
Wood Science
Faculty and Staff
34
37
Centre for Advanced Wood Processing38
Centre for Applied Conservation Research40
University Research Forests42
Offices, Awards and Distinctions44
Extramural Funding and Sponsored Research46
Faculty Publications52
Faculty Development and Alumni62
2011 Annual Report 1
Dean’s Message
This year, the world
celebrated
the
2011
International
Year
of
Forests. Significant events
took place around the
world, and I am pleased
to report that a number
of these took place within
the UBC Faculty of Forestry. Two events were of particular
note. In April 2011, we hosted a “Forestry Leaders’ Summit”,
where the links between research, education and forest
policy were explored. The event was supported by the
Canadian Forest Service and other sponsors. Delegates
came from all over the world, and included the President
of the International Union of Forest Research Organizations
and the Director of the United Nations Forum on Forests.
The outcome of the meeting was a communiqué that will
be fed into policy processes considering forests.
A second major event was held to wrap up the
International Year of Forests. Rather than inviting established leaders in forestry, as was done for the first event,
we invited forestry’s future leaders to come together. The
delegates consisted primarily of graduate students, with
our students being joined by others, principally from the
University of Washington. With the generous support of
the BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource
Operations, we were able to showcase the work of our
exceptionally talented graduate students. Further details of
both events are provided on page 19 of the Annual Report.
Within the Faculty, a great deal of effort over the past year
has gone into reviewing our current status and developing
plans for the future. All three Departments were assessed
by external review bodies, and a number of recommendations were presented. In addition, our undergraduate programs in forest resource management were examined by
an external accreditation group on behalf of the Canadian
Forestry Accreditation Board. Discussions about our current and future role were held with the Faculty Advisory
Council, with our First Nations Council of Advisors and with
our alumni. The result of all these activities was the development of a new Strategic Plan for the Faculty, available at:
hwww.forestry.ubc.ca/general-information/strategic-plan/.
A number of changes have occurred within the Faculty
over the past year. Dr Rob Kozak was appointed as Head of
the Department of Wood Science and Dr John Richardson
as Head of the Department of Forest Sciences, both on
January 1, 2012. Dr Yousry El-Kassaby took up the position of Acting Head of the Department of Forest Resources
Faculty of Forestry activities, 2001/02 – 2011/12
01/02
02/03
03/04
04/05
05/06
06/07
07/08
08/09
09/10
10/11
11/12
447
441
448
453
454
467
504
507
557
589
689
19
14
9
9
10
10
10
9
7
7
7
202
163
170
197
242
252
265
261
268
244
238
Teaching Evaluation
2
Index
2.05
1.88
1.90
1.99
1.89
2.00
4.26
4.29
4.32
4.11
4.12
Extramural funding
($000)
8,357
11,370
11,379
10,427
12,101
11,699
13,296
13,493
12,229
10,918
12,590
Endowment income
($000)
1,342
2,031
1,981
1,706
1,698
1,575
1,902
1,843
1,207
1,075
1,050
214
274
295
260
304
286
365
374
307
279
308
Undergraduate
enrolment1
Distance education
(fte)
Graduate enrolment
1
Extramural funding
per GPOB-funded
faculty member ($000)
1
Headcount unless otherwise noted
Average numerical score of several criteria used by students to assess teaching performance of faculty members.
Scale used up to an including 2006/07, 1= Excellent; 2=Very Good; 3=Good; 4=Fair; 5=Poor; 6=Very Poor
New system introduced in 2007/08, 5=Excellent; 4=Good; 3=Average; 2=Poor; 1=Very Poor
2
2 UBC Faculty of Forestry
Dean’s Message
Management on July 1, 2011, replacing Dr Bruce Larson
who has stepped down after five years in the position.
Within the Dean’s Office, Deepti Mathew Iype and Janna
Kellett joined the development team and are now working
with Emma Tully on meeting the Faculty’s campaign goals.
Jenna McCann took maternity leave, and has been replaced
temporarily by Caely-Ann McNabb. Candace Parsons
decided to take a year’s unpaid leave of absence, and was
replaced temporarily by Chiara Longhi. Yuko Ikegami Lee
moved into the international recruiter’s position, and Ana
Curcin joined the team in Student Services. Colin Sharwood
stepped down as Director of Finance, and was replaced by
Leisa Belanger.
Unlike many forestry schools, the numbers of students
in the UBC Faculty of Forestry has been increasing for several years. In 2011, we saw the largest number of undergraduates ever, with total enrollment increasing from 589
in 2010/11 to 689 in 2011/12. Of these, 127 were international students, and the Faculty’s complement of international undergraduate students now represents 18% of the
total. A highlight of our undergraduate teaching was the
introduction of a new specialization in “Community and
Aboriginal Forestry:, something that reflects the Faculty’s
deep commitment to Aboriginal engagement. While it is
perhaps ignominious to single out any particular individual,
one student deserves particular mention. Ira Sutherland
received the Wesbrook Scholar and Premier Undergraduate
Award for outstanding academics, leadership and involvement in student academics.
The number of graduate students declined slightly,
partly because of the reduced provincial funding available to support students. However, we still have a strong
and vibrant graduate program, with 244 students enrolled.
More than half of our graduate students are international.
Just over half of these students are enrolled in PhD programs. Jenn Burt distinguished herself and added stature
to the Faculty’s graduate programs by winning the Best
Master’s Thesis Award and the Governor General’s Gold
Medal for the best UBC MSc thesis. Natalie Sopinka, on the
other hand, won the UBC “Three Minute Thesis” competition – a fascinating campus-wide event in which students
have to summarize the results of their thesis research
within three minutes.
The Faculty continued to be very active in the international arena. In addition to the two conferences mentioned
earlier, the Faculty continued to build its links with forestry
universities in China and Europe. Our international links
continue to grow, and may be one of the reasons for the
tremendous increase in interest in our programs internationally. We are encouraging our students to engage
internationally, and three students, Katie Gibson, Fernanda
Tomaselli and Richard Shuster held offices within the
International Forestry Students Association. This is the first
time that our students have done so.
As mentioned above, the Faculty places a great deal
of weight on our Aboriginal engagement. This suffered a
major blow in 2011 when Dr Ron Trosper left UBC to take
up an appointment as Head of the American Indian Studies
Program at the University of Arizona. We are fortunate in
having been able to recruit Dr Janette Bulkan as Assistant
Professor in Indigenous Forestry, and in the interim are
delighted that Andrea Lyall, a Registered Professional
Forester from the Kwicksutainuek Nation, was able to
instruct our undergraduate course in Aboriginal Forestry.
The Faculty’s three research forests continued to play
an important role in supporting the mission of the Faculty
and the University. The forests not only host both research
and teaching but are also important in terms of links to
the broader community. For example, Loon Lake Camp
hosted 400 children and 300 volunteers at the 8th annual
Canadian Cancer Society Camp Goodtimes, and Ken Day
and his staff at the Alex Fraser forest worked closely with
the BC Community Forest Association on a range of extension services.
With the appointment of a full development team,
including an alumni relations manager, we have been
able to move forward on several new initiatives aimed at
improving our research, teaching and outreach activities.
While fund-raising is extremely difficult in the current economic climate, we benefited significantly from the generosity of our many supporters, raising a total of $2.65 million
during the course of the year.
Over the coming year, our focus will be on implementing some of the many strategies outlined in our strategic
plan. This is an exciting time to be involved in forestry, and
in forestry research and education in particular. I expect to
see the Faculty grow over the coming years, increasing its
reputation both locally and internationally. It is an honour
to be able to play such an important part in making this
happen.
John Innes
Dean, Faculty of Forestry
Programs of Study
Peter Marshall
BScF, MScF, PhD, RPF
Associate Dean
Undergraduate Studies
604.822.4918
[email protected]
Sally Aitken
BSF (Hons), MSc, PhD
Director, Forest Sciences
Program
604.822.6020
[email protected]
Simon Ellis
BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD
Director, Wood Products
Processing Program
604.822.3551
[email protected]
Dennis Bendickson
BSF, RPF
Director, Forest
Operations Major
604.822.5932
[email protected]
Scott Hinch
Director, Natural
Resources Conservation
Program
604.822.9377
[email protected]
Bachelor of Science in Forestry
BSF
This degree integrates science and technology to advance
the understanding and practice of sustainable forest management. It enables students to become Registered Professional
Foresters.
Major in Forest Resources Management: This major focuses
on the multidisciplinary aspects of forest resources and the
management of forested ecosystems. Students learn about the
unique characteristics of each resource, their interactions, and
the management of forests to yield a variety of desirable products in the context of ecological, social, and economic objectives. Specializations are offered in International Forestry and
Community and Aboriginal Forestry.
Major in Forest Operations: This major focuses on the
engineering, planning, development, harvesting, and management of forest lands. It is designed to develop professionals who
understand both environmental and social objectives and who
can provide the link between the growing forest and its products.
Students can add courses to create eligibility for registration as a
Professional Engineer. A Minor in Commerce is offered through
the UBC Sauder School of Business.
Forest Sciences
BSc (Forest Sciences)
This program develops individuals who can conduct research
in forested ecosystems, and are well prepared for graduate studies. Students gain a strong foundation in the basic biological and
environmental sciences, with emphasis on the interacting components and functions of forests. Areas of concentration include
forest ecology, forest entomology or pathology, forest fire science, forest genetics or biotechnology, forest hydrology and
aquatic sciences, forest soils, tree physiology, silviculture, conservation biology, or wildlife ecology. A 4-year International Forestry
Specialization is also available.
Wood Products Processing
BSc (Wood Products Processing)
This program is a fusion of science, engineering and business.
Students gain a comprehensive understanding of wood science,
advanced manufacturing and business operations, and can
choose to complement their degree with a Minor in Commerce
through the UBC Sauder School of Business. This program was
John Nelson
BSF, MBA, PhD, RPF
Director, Forest
Resources Management
Major
604.822.3902
[email protected]
developed in response to the need for university graduates qualified to become leaders in the wood products manufacturing sector. Graduates are always in demand and enjoy diverse career
opportunities with the highest average salary compared to other
UBC undergraduate degrees.
Natural Resources Conservation
BSc (Natural Resources Conservation)
This trans-disciplinary program provides students with a solid
foundation in the function, process, and structure of natural ecosystems, with an appreciation for the political, legal, and socioeconomic contexts of conservation and management strategies.
The development of communication and problem-solving skills,
teamwork, and leadership is emphasized. Students select a major
at the end of second year:
Major in Science and Management: Students obtain a
working knowledge of conservation science and management.
A notable feature is the fourth year capstone field school which
integrates field and classroom instruction throughout the fall
term. Students can readily pursue Registered Professional
Biologist or Forester status through this major.
Major in Global Perspectives: Students obtain broad knowledge on a range of resource systems. International study is a
requirement. A notable feature is the capstone modeling course
involving a comprehensive assessment of policy, management,
and resource sustainability in developing countries.
ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2011 – 12
The “Community and Aboriginal Forestry” specialization
within the BSF program was implemented in September 2010
and there are currently 5 students enrolled in this specialization. There are also other students within Forestry and from
across the UBC campus who are taking some of the courses
offered in this specialization as electives.
PLANS FOR 2012 – 13
• We will continue to explore the concept of a “Forest Sciences
Honours Program” with entry after completion of second
year.
• Implement a new in-house Forestry Communications course
to replace 3 credits of the first year English requirement. The
course curriculum has been designed and a pilot offering will
occur in the 2012-13 academic year.
Co-op Programs
Geoffrey Anderson
BComm
Coordinator, Co-op Education
Forestry Programs
604.827.5196
[email protected]
CO-OPERATIVE EDUCATION (Co-op) enables students to combine their classroom learning with practical and relevant work
experience. Since its beginning in 1996, the UBC Forestry Co-op
Program has secured work term opportunities for students
locally, nationally and throughout the world. Students are able to
explore different career options through a variety of work terms,
while employers have the opportunity to recruit, train and assess
potential future employees.
2011-12 marked an increase in both the number of completed
work terms and job postings over the previous year. This is a very
positive sign as it indicates the economy and job market is continuing to recover from the recession which began in 2008. There
was a renewed interest from employers outside the traditional
sectors wanting to recruit Forestry Co-op students. This illustrates
the diverse skill set and knowledge that co-op students can offer
employers.
There were some staff changes in 2011-12. Linda Dom left
the Faculty in December 2011. Sudeh Jahan joined the Faculty
in February 2012 as the new Co-op Coordinator/Recruitment
Officer (Wood Products Processing). Sudeh came from MOSAIC
with several years of job development/marketing experience.
Welcome Sudeh.
• Forestry Co-op students completed work terms with a variety
of employers including consultants, government, industry
and non-governmental organizations.
• Co-op work terms were completed in British Columbia,
Alberta, Ontario, Chile, Ecuador, South Africa, Uganda, and
the United States.
• International co-op work terms were completed with a variety
of employers including California Department of Forestry and
Fire Protection, Great Basin Institute (United States); Universiteit Stellenbosch (South Africa); TAG Africa (Uganda); Arauco
(Chile).
• New co-op employers included: Canadian Bavarian Millwork
(Chemainus, BC), City of White Rock - Department of Engineering and Municipal Operations (White Rock, BC), Diacon
Technologies (Richmond, BC), Environment Canada (Vancouver), John Walker Consulting (Williams Lake, BC), LP (Dawson
Creek, BC), Ministry of Energy & Mines (Vancouver), Moulding
& Millwork (Maple Ridge, BC), North of Sixty (Dwight, ON),
Parks Canada – Kootenay National Park (BC) & Yoho National
Park (BC), Sinclar Group (Prince George, BC), Suncor (Calgary &
Fort McMurray, AB), Syncrude (Fort McMurray, AB), Teck (Sparwood, BC) and Wood Manufacturing Council (Ottawa).
• The geographical distribution of co-op work terms was 32%
Lower Mainland of BC; 38% remainder of BC; 12% rest of Canada; and 18% international.
Linda Dom
BA, MA
Coordinator, Co-op Education
and Recruitment Officer, Wood
Products Processing Program
604.822.4793
Number of work terms completed
08/09
09/10
10/11
11/12
Forestry
8
3
9
8
Forest Sciences
7
2
2
4
Natural Resources
Conservation
24
20
27
33
Wood Products
Processing
34
32
27
35
Total
73
57
65
80
• A Forestry Co-op Presentation Evening/Mentoring event was
held in October which provided the opportunity for students
to share their learning and experiences from their summer
co-op work terms; as well as to network with employers.
• In conjunction with the other UBC Co-op programs, 3
employer marketing events were held: April 2011 – a UBC
Co-op information session was hosted at the Public Service
Commission office in Vancouver for Lower Mainland-based
hiring managers of the federal public service; June 2011 – UBC
Co-op was an exhibitor at the annual symposium of the Association of Professional Executives of the Public Service of Canada (APEX) held in Ottawa; October 2011 – UBC Co-op hosted
a luncheon in Palo Alto, California for area co-op employers, with UBC President Stephen Toope as keynote speaker.
Attending employers learned more about UBC as well as ways
to further engage with UBC Co-op.
• A well-attended Co-op Presentation Evening for Wood Products Processing students was co-hosted with an Open House
for the Centre for Advanced Wood Processing (CAWP) in October. Students had the opportunity to showcase their learning
and experience gained from their summer work terms as well
as network with industry employers.
• Continue the development of international co-op opportunities to broaden students’ cultural awareness and understanding of global issues related to their degree and future career.
• Increase the number of new employers participating in co-op;
particularly non-traditional employers.
• Review employer and student marketing strategies.
• As a member of the UBC Co-op Council, continue to work with
other UBC Co-op programs to develop joint marketing initiatives targeted to employers.
• Apply for accreditation from the Canadian Association for Cooperative Education (CAFCE).
www.forestry.ubc.ca/co-op
Student Services and Recruitment
Chiara Longhi
BA, MA
Acting Director, Student
Services
604.822.9187
[email protected]
THE UBC FORESTRY STUDENT Services Team provides support
to prospective, new and continuing undergraduate students. Our
priorities include attracting strong students to our degree programs, enhancing the student experience, and raising the profile
of the Faculty of Forestry at UBC and beyond.
Student Services
Student Services staff provide many different types of assistance,
including admissions and registration support, orientations and
tours, personal and program advising, referrals to other UBC services and more. We pride ourselves on our personalized approach.
Graduate Program staff are located in adjacent office space, creating “one-stop shopping” student services for all Forestry students.
Recruitment Activities
Yuko Ikegami Lee and Chiara Longhi are the staff members
dedicated to recruiting and advising both international and
domestic students, as well as visiting and exchange students, supported by the rest of the Student Services Team as required. Linda
Dom provided both co-op and recruitment activities for the Wood
Products Processing program until the end of December 2011 and,
Sudeh Jahan is now in that role. Our Faculty-wide international
recruitment priority again this year has been to increase student
enrolment and retention, from China and the US in particular. The
2+2 transfer agreements with several Chinese universities are
resulting in increased numbers of international students from
China entering our programs and a new position was created with
the main purpose of supporting those students from the our 2+2
agreements. This role has been filled by Xinxin Zhu, who holds an
MF from our Faculty and joined our team in December under Dr
Wang’s direct supervision. Currently Chinese students represent
the largest proportion of our international students.
Outstanding Students
Ira Sutherland, a Natural Resources Conservation student
(Major in Global Perspectives), received one of UBC’s most prestigious undergraduate student awards – the Wesbrook Scholar
and the Premier Undergraduate Award for outstanding academics, leadership and involvement in student and community
activities. Ira was also a co-recipient of the Clark Binkley Award
in recognition of sustained and outstanding contributions to the
enhancement of the Natural Resources Conservation program.
Janice Burns, a BSF Forest Resources Management student,
was chosen to receive this year’s Canadian Institute of Forestry
Gold Medal, recognizing her as the most outstanding student
of this year’s graduating class. Janice was an active member of
the Graduating Committee and worked closely with the other
committee members and the Faculty to organize the Silver Ring
graduation ceremony, once again an evening to remember.
Yuko Ikegami Lee
BFA
Officer, International
Recruitment
604.827.5195
[email protected]
Forestry Mentoring Program
This was the third year of our Mentoring Program. The mentoring groups are comprised of 1 alumnus/professional mentor plus
1-3 students (senior and junior). This program helps students to
develop their skills in career planning and provides links to the job
market. Mentors included entrepreneurs, retirees and industry and
government representatives; participation provided the opportunity to inspire future colleagues, to enhance coaching skills, to
network with other mentors and to maintain a connection with
the UBC community. This year’s program was well received by all
participants. We had 14 groups involved this year and project 15-20
groups next year. We are always looking for more mentors – to learn
more, please contact Geoff Anderson at [email protected].
Student Events
This year’s Forestry Undergraduate Society (FUS) executive
and representatives were Amanda Harvey, Katie Gibson, Nick
Niddrie, Allison Hunt, Maddie Crowell, Richard Schwendener,
Allison Chen, Barbara Wong, Kaylah Lewis, Janice Burns. Student
Services worked with the FUS to organize and support the following student events:
• “Imagine” – the university-wide orientation session held on
the first day of classes;
• Forestry Week – our week to showcase our Faculty to the rest
of campus;
• Trip to Huntsville, Ontario for the Canadian Institute of Forestry
(CIF) 103rd annual conference, including the nationwide
Forestry Student Quiz Bowl competition;
• Dean’s Welcome Back BBQ, a well-attended annual function;
• CIF Chili Cookoff – this year we also had the BCIT forestry
students participate;
• International Food Extravaganza, a sampling of studentprepared dishes from the world over;
• CIF Silver Ring Ceremony, our graduation celebration held
each spring; this year we were joined by the students
graduating from the BCIT forestry program;
• “Coconut” – the legendary year-end event, held again this year
at the UBC Farm.
• Send a Forestry Quiz Bowl team to Quebec City, Quebec for
the 104th CIF Conference and AGM, where they will compete
against college and university forestry teams from across
Canada and, hopefully, bring back the Quiz Bowl trophy to UBC!
• Find ways to improve and streamline Student Services
activities to maximize recruitment and the overall student
academic experience.
• Continue to enhance the reputation of the Faculty of Forestry
and increase awareness of our undergraduate programs, both
on campus and beyond.
New Student Enrolment
New student enrolment this year was 308, up by over 30%.
Our admission GPA for students entering directly from secondary school increased slightly to 80% for the Forest Sciences
and Natural Resources Conservation programs. It remained at
75% for Wood Products Processing and BSF Forest Resources
Management and Forest Operations majors.
New students entering into different program years are tabulated below.
has partnership arrangements with Nanjing Forestry University,
Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, and Beijing Forestry
University and memoranda of understanding with several other
Chinese universities which have helped us with attracting suitably qualified students.
The percentage of female students in our undergraduate
programs is 43.5%, up just over a percent from the previous year.
This percentage varies considerably among our programs, from
about 59% for the Natural Resources Conservation program to
about 12% for the Forest Operations major.
New students 2011 – 12
Number of new
students entering
700
1
231
600
2
64
3
13
4
0
Total
308
Number of Students
Year of study
Total Enrolment
689
500
400
New Enrolment
308
300
200
100
01/02
05/06
03/04
07/08
09/10
11/12
Total enrolment and new enrolment
2001/02 – 2011/12
BSF (Forest Operations)
6.0%
BSc (Forest
Sciences) 12.4%
BSc (Wood Products
Processing) 16.5%
BSc (Natural
Resources
Conservation)
46.1%
Number of Students
263
157
141
128
BSF (Forest Resources
Management)19.1%
Breakdown of new enrolment 2011 – 12
Total Enrolment
Total undergraduate enrolment grew to 689, an increase of
100 students over the previous year. This is the largest group
of undergraduate students we have ever had! This increase is a
consequence of the higher secondary school entrance standards
we have adopted in the past few years, which have resulted in
higher retention rates (fewer failures) as well as a larger new student intake. We remain an attractive location for undergraduate
visiting and exchange students from elsewhere in Canada and
the world. This year we hosted 14 visiting and exchange students.
In addition to visiting and exchange student enrolment, the
number of international students enrolled in our degree programs continues to increase. This year we had 125 international
students, up from 102 the previous year. We remain second in the
university to the Sauder School of Business in terms of the proportion of international students in our undergraduate programs.
The primary sources of our growing number of international students are the United States and China. The Faculty of Forestry
1
2
3
Year of Study
4
Enrolment by year of study 2011 – 12
Enrolment by program 2011 – 12
Number
enrolled
% of
total
130
18.9
Forest Operations (BSF)
42
6.1
Forest Sciences (BSc)
85
12.3
Wood Products Processing (BSc)
114
16.6
Natural Resources Conservation (BSc)
318
46.1
Forest Resources Management (BSF)
Awards
First Year Students
Alba, Kelsea Lauren
Dao, William
Scholfield, Oliver William
Wright, William
CS JOHNSON
WOOD
ALUMNI²
TRUCK¹
Second Year Students
Harrap, Samuel James
Larock, Fraser Michael
Liu, Charmaine
Sunter, Emily Judith
Trommel, Steven Jeffrey
Zwiebel, Aaron Batson
CANADIAN
CARIBOO
ABCFP¹
BURCH
TRUCK²
CHISHOLM
Malo, Jessica
TRUCK¹
Pedersson, Brita Kathryn
WRIGHT
Sanchez, Olivia
MAC³, SODERMAN
Trachuk, Karl Ernest
WOOD
Wiersma, Ryan Paul WOOD, CANADIAN
Xiong, Huan
WOOD
Fourth Year Students
Bellis, Tyler Hugh
KENWOOD
Belvas, Romain
MAC³, McINTOSH²
Bennett, Derek
WOOD
Errico, Claire
TRUCK¹
Field, Samuel Patrick Lennon
DEAN
Gleasure, Elizabeth Anne
PACIFIC
ROLLER, HADDOCK
Ip, Joyce
GOLOUBEF, WRIGHT
Jorgensen, Alexis
LITTLE, McINTOSH¹
SOPRON
Lam, Trueman
MAC³, SIDDOO¹,
STEINER, WOOD
Lesko, Melissa Alexandra
GOLOUBEF
WRIGHT
Bissell, Charles David
WOOD
Bruemmer, Matthew Russell
ENGLISH
ALUMNI¹
Burns, Janice
RE MILLS, BACKMAN
KOZAK, SMITH
Cassady, Adam Nicholas
KAMP
Gierc, Braden WOOD
Grills, Chantelle
MACHINERY,
WELLWOOD, SODERMAN
Hiebert, Matthias
WOOD
Katamay-Smith, Tanya
DEAN
Kit, Wilson
WOOD
Kofoed, Michael James BANKS, WOOD
Kostiw, Mark Taras
WOOD, LUMBER
Langley, Benjamin
TRUCK², SPLAN,
SISCO
Lewis, Kaylah
MILLS
Lister, Caleb Andrew
WOOD
Mackay, Benjamin KETCHAM, BINKLEY
Marciniak, Amberly Rae MAC³, SIDDOO²
Mellstrom, Charlotte
KNAPP
Moore, Kevin Scott DEAN, GRADUATING
ABCFP Scholarship in Forestry1, Graduating
3
Prize in Forestry2, UBC-O Award
UBC Forestry ALUMNI Division Scholarship1
and Entrance Scholarship2
BACKMAN Scholarship in Forest Resources
Management
Charles and Jane BANKS Scholarship
John E BIER Memorial Prize in Forest
Pathology
Emily and Francis BINKLEY Scholarship
Gerry BURCH Scholarship in Forest Sciences
CANADIAN Woodworking Machinery
Distributors Association Prize
CARIBOO Woodlot Education Society
Scholarship in Forestry
Hugh RD CHISHOLM Scholarship in Forestry
Canadian Institute of Forestry (CIF) Medal
Robert J CRAIG Memorial Scholarship
August and Cristina CRUCIL Scholarship in
Forestry
Charlie and Sue JOHNSON Forestry Entrance
Scholarship
DEAN of Forestry Scholarship
Galt ELKINGTON Memorial Scholarship
Barry ENGLISH Memorial Prize
Joseph & Joyce GARDNER Scholarship in
Forestry
Peter Andrew GOLOUBEF Scholarship in
Forestry
GRADUATING Class of Forestry 1957 Prize
Phil HADDOCK Prize in Silviculture
Harry HOBSON Memorial Prize
Ted JOHNSON Scholarship in Forestry
Bart van der KAMP Prize in Forestry
Gary and Louise KENWOOD Forestry Award
Janet KETCHAM Scholarship
Malcolm KNAPP Spring Camp Prize
Tony KOZAK Scholarship in Forest
Measurement
Charles LARRE Memorial Graduating Prize
David Bell LITTLE Memorial Scholarship
Independent LUMBER Remanufacturers
Association Scholarship in Wood Products
MACHINERY and Supply Companies Group
Forestry Scholarship
H R MACMILLAN Prizes in Forestry1, Forest
Harvesting2, Scholarship in Forestry3
Jim and Gerry McINTOSH Award in Forestry1
and Scholarship in Forestry2
James Russell MILLS Memorial Award
Third Year Students
Nelson, Brett Daniel
DEAN
Nethercut-Wells, Acacia Rae BACKMAN
DEAN
Parhar, Ravi
WOOD
Ratcliffe, Blaise Atom
JOHNSON,
ROLLER, BIER
Rickbeil, Greg James SODERMAN, CRAIG
Sutherland, Ira James
GARDNER,
WORRALL
Tam, Janice Chi Yee
WOOD
Tam, Robert Patrick
WOOD
Tan, Rynehvee
BANKS, WOOD
Tu, Siqian
CRUCIL
Ukpabi, Houston Eke Willis
WOOD
LUMBER
Van Buskirk, Robert Harding
DEAN
White, Taylor
NORTHWOOD
Woods, Sarah Bain
ELKINGTON
Xie, Shenghao
WOOD
Graduating Awards
(Spring 2011)
Barra, Michael
Cimolai, Tomas Loren
Hole, Blair Edwin
Hooper, Robyn Nicole
Matthies, Brent David
Scott, Brian Martin
LARRE
ABCFP²
ABCFP²
MAC¹
MAC²
CIF, HOBSON
NORTHWOOD Pulp and Timber Limited
Scholarship
PACIFIC Regeneration Technologies Inc
Silviculture SCholarship
Robert E MILLS Memorial Award
KJ ROLLER Sopron Scholarship in Forestry
Kapoor Singh SIDDOO Scholarships in
Forestry1 and Forest Ecology2
Dave White SISCO Memorial Award in Forestry
J Harry G SMITH Award in Forest Resources
Management
Oscar SODERMAN Memorial Scholarship
SOPRON Alumni Scholarship
William John SPLAN Scholarship in Forestry
Paul Robert STEINER Memorial Scholarship in
Wood Science
TRUCK Loggers Association Scholarship1 and
Scholarship in Harvesting2
WELDWOOD of Canada Ltd Scholarship in
Forestry
Mary and Robert WELLWOOD Memorial
Scholarship in Wood Science and Industry
University of BC WOOD Products Processing
Awards
John WORRALL “Tree Enthusiast” Prize
WRIGHT Scholarship in Forestry
Graduation Statistics
Bursaries
The following bursaries have been made available specifically for students enrolled in the Faculty of Forestry. Due to the confidential
nature of bursary applications, recipients cannot be identified.
British Columbia KILN Association
Bursary in Forestry
Henri J Pigeon Bursary in Wood Science
and Industry
Canfor Corporation Bursary
Coastal Silviculture Committee Bursary
Herschel H Boydston, Jr Memorial
Bursary in Forestry
Doris M Dowling Memorial Bursary
Ian T Cameron Memorial Bursary
EG & WD Touzeau Bursary
JD Hetherington Memorial Bursary
Eurocan Pulp & Paper Co Bursary
Jeanette Lindsay Memorial Bursary
Gerry and Jack Burch Bursary
John Worrall Alumni Bursary in Forestry
Tudor Ommaney Memorial Bursary in
Forestry
Norris-Mebius Bursary
Vinten Fund Forestry Bursary
Oscar Soderman Memorial Bursary
Oscar Sziklai Memorial Bursary in
Forestry
PL Northcott Memorial Bursary
Tommy Burgess Memorial Forestry
Bursary
DEGREES CONFERRED, MAY 2011 AND NOVEMBER 2011 CONGREGATIONS
BSc (Natural Resources
Conservation, Global
Perspectives Major)
Berthin, Alexander
Cen, Shao Dan
Chandola, Shreya
David, Christian
Erdle, Lisa Michelle
Grabowski, Meagan
Haysom, Claire
Hooper, Robyn
Jolley, Jessica
Leung, Nicole Man Lai
Loewen, Katherine
Lu, Cynthia Fane
Moshofsky, Molly
Myrfield, Cassondra
Stewart, Paulette
Wohrizek, Laura
Wong, Janson Chun Yu
BSc (Natural Resources
Conservation, Science and
Management Major)
Barber, Annalise
Beacham, Chris
Bird, Jesse
Chan, Colin
Chow, Long Yin
Chow, Sylvia Si Ting
Desrosiers, Sarah
Evangelista, Nicola
Green, Jemma
Gubbe, Graham
Hegele, Christopher
Hopkinson, Suzanne
Hudson, Daniel
Hung, Hoi Lam
Huntley, Matthew
Irvine, Meghan
Kirkby, Melody
Lawrence, Michael
Manhas, Rajbir
Meier, Helen
Ng, Tracy Wen Hun
Pang, Olivia
Park, Jong Kyu
Pauley, Rachel
Rickard, JoAnna
Russell, Kelsey
Tam, Kevin Tsz Kit
Toews, Mary
Trieu, Hong Diem
Wong, Kingsley King-Gee
BSc (Wood Products Processing)
Barra, Michael
Cheung, Wan Lung Wayne
Cho, Dae Don
Czapiewski, Christopher
Goldsmith, Fraser
Hole, Blair
Lee, Andrew Sze Chung
Lee, Charles
Limantono, Arnold
Marshall, Jody
Moon, Yonghun Andy
Nie, Xin
Rippon, Jordan
Roberts, Aaron
Sidharta, Andre
Yang, YuanYan
BSc (Forest Sciences)
Beier, Clayton
Chalmers, Eric
Muenter, Eireen
O’Meara, Devon
Pokorny, Stanley
BSF (Forest Operations)
Cimolai, Tomas
Ferguson, Jeffrey
Ip, Jerome Chi Hang
Matthies, Brent
Motsa, Cornelius
Scott, Brian
White, Michael
Wong, Calvin Kar Hon
BSF (Forest Resources
Management)
Bennett, Curtis
Boulton, Christopher
Burke, Christopher
Chen, Yanyan
Chiu, Horton
Coe, Janelle
Fraser, Stephen
Guo, Xuan
Hodgins, Jesse
Lau, Gabrielle Ka Bui
Lee, Dickson Chuen Shun
Lepine, Maxime
Macdonald, Curtis
Majidian, Maryam
Mellstrom, Charlotte
Nash, Robert
Ponnambalam, Kumary
Prilesky, Vojtech
Pu, Ting
Sparrow, Lori
Strimbu, Vlad
Toda, Emily
Wildeman, Jesse
Wong, Jack Ho Leung
Wu, Renchuan
Yu, Joe
Graduate Students
Cindy Prescott
Associate Dean
Graduate Studies
and Research
604.822.4701
[email protected]
Gayle Kosh
Dip T
Manager, Graduate
Programs
604.827.4454
[email protected]
Dan Naidu
Coordinator, Graduate
Awards and Scholarships
604.822.6177
[email protected]
Robin Poirier-Vasic
Coordinator, Admissions
604.822.6784
[email protected]
THE FACULTY OF FORESTRY offers four graduate degrees:
• Doctor of Philosophy – PhD (in Forestry)
• Master of Science – MSc (in Forestry)
• Master of Applied Science – MASc (in Forestry)
• Master of Forestry – MF
Distribution of students by
degree program 2011 – 12*
Enrolment and Graduation Trends
Number of Students
The Forestry Graduate Program had 238 registered students
this past year, with 58% enrolled in PhD programs. Women comprised 49% of our master’s and 41% of our doctoral students. We
welcomed 24 new PhD students and 34 new master’s students
in 2011/12.
The average graduate student complement of supervising faculty members is 5. Fifty-seven students successfully completed their
graduate programs last year, 36 with master’s degrees and 21 with
PhD degrees. Average time-in-program of students finishing their
programs in 2011 was 3.3 years for research-based master’s, 1.6
years for course-based master’s and 5.3 years for doctoral students.
Masters
270
240
210
180
150
120
90
60
30
Male
Female
Total
PhD
81
56
137
MSc
44
40
84
MASc
1
4
5
MF
7
5
12
133
105
238
Total
*As of October, 2011
PhD
Total
238
01/02
02/03
03/04
04/05
05/06
06/07
07/08
08/09
09/10
10/11
11/12
Graduate student enrolment 2001/02 – 2011/12
Number of Graduates
Masters
PhD
Total
57
60
50
40
30
20
10
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Spring and fall convocation graduates 2001 – 2011
2009
2010
2011
Graduate Students
The Forestry Graduate Program
– An International Community
The Faculty of Forestry continues to attract excellent graduate
students from around the world. Forty-four percent of our graduate
students are from countries other than Canada – we have students
from 40 different countries – continuing to make Forestry one of
the most culturally diverse graduate programs on campus. Each
year we link incoming international students with a current student
from the same country or region, to ease their transition to UBC
and Vancouver. In 2011/12, 19 current students served as “buddies”
for incoming students from Australia, Chile, China, Ecuador, France,
Iran, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa and Sweden.
The FGSA hosted the fourth annual Global Tea House talk series
with presentations by students from Nepal, Bangladesh, Britain
and Korea about the forests and culture in their native countries.
We also successfully completed the first year of the
TRANSFOR-M dual degree master’s program with our Canadian
and European university partners. Three UBC students spent the
year studying in Europe (SLU in Sweden and Freiburg University
in Germany) and two European students spent the year at UBC.
Africa 2.6%
Oceania 2.1%
Central & South
America 7.2%
Middle
East 7.7%
Canada 44.7%
Europe 9.4%
USA 11.1%
Asia 15.3%
Origins of graduate students 2011/12
ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2011 –
12
Phil Grace (MSc, H Nelson) and Andrew Innerd (PhD, Daniels)
received the Faculty of Forestry Graduate Teaching Assistant
Award. Margaret Branton (PhD, Richardson) received the Best
PhD Thesis Award and Jenn Burt (MSc, Hinch) received the Best
Master’s Thesis Award and the Governor General’s Gold Medal
for best UBC MSc Thesis.
The Forestry Graduate Student Association (FGSA) once
again had an excellent executive council this year and played
a key role in helping us provide a sense of community for our
graduate students. The FGSA organized several large social
events, including the wine and cheese evening in the fall, as
well as the much-anticipated musical ‘coffee house’ in March.
Special monthly socials included snowshoeing and hiking on
the North Shore, a Beer, Trivia and Salsa Dancing evening, and
International Food Night. The FGSA also organized and hosted
several workshops for students, including a breakfast workshop on document organization and citation software, and
a networking skills training workshop. FGSA also co-hosted
the Faculty of Forestry’s lunchtime dialogue on ‘Gender and
Forestry’ for International Women’s Day. Most notable of the
FGSA events this year was the “Networking Night: Promoting
Professional Careers” evening held in February that brought our
grad students together with professionals in the forest and environmental sectors. This night was a pre-cursor to the Faculty’s
“Future Forestry Leaders” graduate student symposium, which
was organized to recognize the conclusion of the International
Year of Forests, and was sponsored by BC Ministry of Forests,
Lands and Natural Resource Operations, UBC and the University
of Washington. The symposium was a day of graduate student research presentations, followed by a poster session and
awards presentation. Nine of our graduate students presented
talks and 27 presented posters. Awards for outstanding posters
were presented to Ms Ana Elia Ramon Hidalgo and Ms Seena L
Kumar, and awards for outstanding talks were presented to Mr
Justin Bull and Ms Ling Li.
Our students also participated in the second annual UBC
“Three Minute Thesis” (3MT) competition, with the Forestry
graduate program heat attracting 15 competitors. Forestry Heat
finalists were: Natalie Sopinka (Hinch), Linoj Kumar (Saddler),
Martha Essak (Arcese) and Mahmood Ebadian (Sowlati). We are
very proud to announce that Natalie Sopinka made it through to
the campus-wide 3MT final and was chosen as the winner of the
UBC competition. The 3MT presentations can be viewed on the
Faculty YouTube page (www.youtube.com/user/UBCForestry).
The FGSA executive and representatives were Ana Elia
Ramon Hidalgo, Fernanda Tomaselli, Angela Liu, Amanda
Johnson, René Reyes, Andrea Vasquez, Jean-Michel Beaudoin,
Henry Yang, Antonia Barreau, Richard Schuster, Gwen Huber,
Colin Ferster, Suborna Ahmed, and Andrea Rivers.
Dr Phil Evans offered a 12-workshop series on advanced scientific writing for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Our graduate students also continue to benefit from graduate
skills-training courses in oral presentation and technical writing
offered by Dr Susan Watts. Faculty of Forestry Research Seminars
were presented by faculty members Rob Guy, Lori Daniels and
Harry Nelson. Our excellent graduate program staff continue to
provide multi-faceted service to both prospective and current
grad students and their supervisors.
• Welcome the first class of students in the course-based
Master’s of Sustainable Forest Management (MSFM) program beginning July 2012.
• Continue development of the course-based Master of International Forestry degree program for launch in 2013.
• Continue participation in the TRANSFOR-M dual degree
master’s program with Canadian and European university
partners (year 2 of 3).
www.forestry.ubc.ca/programs/grad
Graduate Students
Graduate Student Funding 2011 – 12
Adequate funding of our graduate students is a priority in
the Faculty of Forestry. More than $3.6 million was invested in
graduate student stipends in 11/12. The average annual stipend
for doctoral students (during the first four years of their program) was just over $19,000; for research-based master’s students (during the first two years of their program) it was just
over $15,000. Graduate research assistantships ($1,842,856)
are the primary source of student stipends, especially for master’s students, while graduate teaching assistantships contribute about 8% of our student funding ($285,087). Competitive
awards (not including tuition awards) contribute about half of
doctoral student stipends and about one-quarter of master’s
student stipends ($1,567,488).
Thirteen Forestry graduate students received Tri-Council
(NSERC and SSHRC) scholarships. Tri-council scholarships
accounted for 19% of the $1.5 million received by our graduate
students in competitive awards in 11/12. Lee Kalcsits is now in
the 2nd year of his 3-year Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship.
Kyle Hilsendager won a 1.5-year Aboriginal Graduate
Fellowship. Richard Schuster won a 1-year Werner and Hidegard
Hesse Fellowship in Ornithology and a 6-month Australian
Endeavor Research Award. The Faculty of Forestry allocation of
6 Four Year Fellowship – Graduate Entrance Scholarships (FYFGESs) were awarded to incoming doctoral students Fernanda
Tomaselli, Susannah Tysor, Tonya Ramey, Yonas Abreham,
Kirsten Campbell, and Ryan Frazier. FYF designations are given
to students who win Tri-Council scholarships and students
who were awarded UGF in 2009/10 transitional year. Faculty of
Forestry Strategic Recruitment Fellowships (SRF) were awarded
to an additional 16 incoming MSc and PhD students. The SRF
program is funded through the Graduate Student Initiative program at UBC. A total of 58 Forestry graduate students received
University Awards (FYF-GES, FYF, SRF or Affiliated Fellowships)
worth $674,848, which accounted for 43% of the total received
in competitive awards.
Endowed, merit-based, Faculty of Forestry awards continue
to be a vital resource for our graduate students; in 11/12 38 students received part of their stipend from these internal awards,
despite the downturn in endowment values. A one-time gift
through Mary and David Macaree Fellowship was awarded to
20 MSc and PhD students. Louise Blight holds the Graduate
Fellowship in Sustainable Forestry, sponsored by the Koerner
Foundation. Research Forest Internships (which were also sponsored by the Koerner Foundation) were awarded to Ella Furness,
Maria De La Fuente Diez and Douglas Bolton.
SSHRC (2)
Aboriginal Graduate
Fellowship (1)
Vanier (1)
NSERC
(11)
Graduate
Research
Assistantships
50%
Competitive
Awards
42%
Four Year
Fellowships
(11)
Recruitment
& Entrance
Scholarships
(46)
Internal
Awards (38)
Graduate Teaching
Assistantships
8%
All graduate funding sources ($3,695,431)
2011/12
Competitive awards ($1,567,488)
2011/12
Graduate Students
Doctoral Students
Kumar, Linoj
Abreham, Yonas
Levy-Booth, David
FYF-GES
Ahmed, Suborna
HANSON, MACAREE
Appleton, Robyn
SRF
Atwood, Trisha
FYF-GES
Beaudoin, Jean-Mitchel
FYY-GES, NSERC
Lim, Hyung-Suk (Thomas)
HELLER
Masse, Jacynthe
FRQNT, SRF
Mobini Dehkordi, Mohammad Mahd
Nadimi, Fattane
FYF, MACAREE
FYF-GES
FYF, NSERC, SRF
Oaten, Dustin
KOERNER
Graduate Fellowship in Sustainable Forestry
Paudel, Shyam
FYF
Piltan, Mehdi
SRF
Bett, Nolan
Blight, Louise
SSHRC, SRF
3MT Second Place
Bolton, Douglas
Branton, Margaret
Bull, Justin
FYF
Research Forest Internship, SRF
Powers, Ryan
SRF
Best PhD Dissertation
Ramey, Tonya
FYF-GES
FYF, NSERC, Best Presentation
Ramon Hidalgo, Ana Elia
Best Poster, FYF-GES, SRF, MACAREE
Burke, Jordan
SRF
Read, Wolf
Cambero, Claudia
SRF
Sam-Brew, Solace
FYF-GES
FYF-GES
Schuster, Richard
Australian Endeavor Research Award,
HESSE, MACAREE
Campbell, Kirsten
Chandran, Ajith
Int’l Research Mobility Award
Chen, Baozhang
NSERC
Churchland, Carolyn
NSERC
Devi, Shalima
FYF-GES, MACAREE
Donaldson, Michael
FYF, MACAREE, SRF
Drenner, Matthew
FYF-GES
Ebadian, Mamood
FYF, 3MT People’s Choice
Eddington, Margaret
SRF
Ferster, Colin
MACAREE
Frazier, Ryan
FYF-GES
Funda, Tomas
Germain, Ryan
ALLEN, FYF-GES, MACAREE
Gonzalez, Julian
MITACS
Gourlay, Keith
FYF-GES
Grace, Phil
Best Grad Teaching Assistant Award
Greene, Gregory
SRF
Haghdan, Shayesteh
SRF
Hamilton, Jill
FYF
Hansen, Lisa
SRF
He, Wenchang
Hilsendager, Kyle
Hu, Jinguang
Huang, Yu
Ibarra, Tomas
Innerd, Andrew
Jack, David
Jamali, Arash
Jeffries, Kenneth
Kalcsits, Lee
CSC, IMAJO
Aboriginal Graduate Fellowship, SRF
CSC
CSC, MACAREE, SRF
CONICYT, Int’l Research Mobility Award, RUFF
Best Graduate Teaching
Assistant Award, LUMBER, SRF
BUCKLAND, GRAHAM, MACAREE
RIX
MACAREE
VANIER
Klady, Rebecca
FYF, SSHRC
Korehei, Reza
MACAREE
Sopinka, Natalie
Stephen, James
Tomaselli, Fernanda
Tomscha, Stephanie
CANFOR, MACAREE
3MT First Place, FYF, NSERC
FYF, MACAREE
FYF-GES, NAMKOONG, SRF
VANDUSEN
Tooke, Rory
FYF, MACAREE, NSERC
Tsai, Ying-Li
MCPHEE
Twieg, Brendan
Tysor, Susannah
van Leeuwen, Martin
Varhola, Andres
Wieler, Carissa
NSERC
FYF-GES
Affiliated Fellowship, MACAREE
FYF, NSERC
MITACS
Xi, Li
CSC
Xu, Lianzhen
CSC
Master’s Students
Akhtari, Shaghaygh
Asay, Amanda
Baker, Kahlil
Barreau, Antonia
Byrd, Jason
Burt, Jennifer
Chavrades, Raphael
Closen, Max
De La Fuente Diez, Maria
Demille, Gregory
Dettmer, Joern
MCPHEE
SRF
JOHAL, MACAREE, MCPHEE, SRF
CONICYT
SRF
Best Thesis Award,
Governor General’s Gold Medal
SRF
MITACS
Research Forest Internship
FMIBC, MACAREE, SMITH
SRF
Essak, Martha
HOFFMEISTER, MACAREE, SRF
Fundova, Irena
MCPHEE
Graduate Students
Furness, Ella
COCHRAN, MCPHEE
Research Forest Internship
Hewitt, Richard
MCPHEE
Hooper, Robyn
NSERC
Kess, Tony
Kumar, Seena
LI, Ling
McLaughlin, Garrett
Michaud, Jean-Simon
MCPHEE, NSERC
Poster Second Place
Presentation Second Place
MITACS
ESRI, MCPHEE
Nadeau, Simon
Nery, Victor
Perez, David
Philpott, Timothy
Pu, Ting
Rivers, Andrea
Robinson, Kendra
Sparrow, Lori
Vasquez Fernandez, Andrea
SRF, FRQNT
MCPHEE, NSERC IPS
BASSETT
MACAREE, MCPHEE, WEBER
SRF
AFFLECK, MCPHEE
MCPHEE, VANDUSEN
SRF
SRF
Milla, Estefania
CONICYT
Wada, Nohara
VANDUSEN
Molander, Mariko
MCPHEE
Whitney, Charlotte
VANDUSEN
AFFILIATED Fellowships
Peter N AFFLECK Memorial Graduate Scholarship in Forest
Policy
George S ALLEN Memorial Scholarship
Edward W BASSETT Memorial Scholarship in Reforestation
Don BUCKLAND Memorial Scholarship in Forest Pathology
CANFOR Corporation Fellowship in Forest Ecosystem
Management
China Scholarship Council
Hugh Robert Duncan CHISHOLM Scholarship in Forestry
Ralph and Elizabeth COCHRAN Scholarship
CONICYT National Commission for Scientific and Technological
Research
Environmental Systems Research Institute Scholarship
Forest Management Institute of British Columbia
Four Year Fellowship
Four Year Fellowship – Graduate Entrance Scholarship
FRQNT Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies
Kenneth GRAHAM Memorial Scholarship
Brenda HANSON Memorial Scholarship in Forestry
Paul HELLER Fellowship
Werner and Hildegard HESSE Fellowship in Ornithology
Bert HOFFMEISTER Scholarship in Forest Wildlife
International Doctoral Research Centre Awards
IMAJO Cedar Management Fund
Asa JOHAL Graduate Fellowship in Forestry
KILLAM Graduate Teaching Assistant Award
KOERNER Foundation
LUMBER Inspector’s Benevolent Society Scholarship
Mary and David MACAREE Fellowship
Donald S MCPHEE Fellowships
Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement
Mitacs Accelerate Program
NAMKOONG Family Fellowship in Forest Sciences
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
NSERC Industrial Postgraduate Scholarships
Organization of American States Scholarships
Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions
RIX Family Leading Edge Student Awards
Kathleen and Sheldon ROTHWELL Fund
RUFFord Small Grants Foundation
J Harry G SMITH Scholarship in Forest Resources Management
Strategic Recruitment Fellowship
Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada
VANDUSEN Graduate Fellowships in Forestry
VANIER Canada Graduate Scholarship
Adrian WEBER Memorial Scholarship in Forest Ecology
WELDWOOD of Canada Limited Scholarship in Forestry
WRIGHT Fellowship in Forestry
Graduate Students
Degrees Granted
MAY 2011 AND NOVEMBER 2011 CONGREGATIONS
MASc
GEHLOFF Maik
Dr Frank Lam
Pull-out resistance of self-tapping wood screws with continuous
thread
ROBERTSON, Adam
Drs Frank Lam and Ray Cole
A comparative life cycle assessment of mid-rise office building construction alternatives: Laminated timber or reinforced
concrete
SIANCHUK, Robert
Dr Paul McFarlane
Identifying barriers to waste diversion: Improving collection and
quality of construction and demolition waste flow information
MF
ARNOTT, Jillian
Dr Younes Alila
Unravelling the relationship between forests and floods: The
effects on rural Asian livelihoods
BOYES, Matthew
Dr Howie Harshaw
An examination of recreation involvement theory and its application to Metro Vancouver and Fraser Valley Regional District’s
major outdoor recreation study
CAMERON, Andrew
Dr Beyhan Amichev
Biomass: Electric and ethanol biomass from Canadian willow
and poplar plantations compared for vehicle transportation.
DING, Junyan
Dr Nicholas Coops
Understanding the mechanism linking water supply, vegetation
composition and primary productivity in Serengeti using MODIS
products
De La FUENTE DIEZ, Maria Teresa
Dr Yousry El-Kassaby
Linkages and synergies between community forestry, forest
carbon projects and poverty alleviation
ISRAR, Mohammad
Dr Ron Trosper
Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en’s subsistence activities and resource
conservation
KANWAR, Mita
Dr Tom Sullivan
The impact of climate change on Eastern Himalayas and adaptation strategies for combating it
NORDEN, Andrew
Dr Rob Kozak
Pine mushrooms in BC: A market analysis
TANG, Dingying
Dr John Innes
Toward the end of history: Ecological modernization
THA, Andrea
Dr Suzie Lavallee
Importance of habitat connectivity for conserving biological
diversity: Climate change considerations on the fragmentation
of mountain caribou habitat in British Columbia
ZHU, Xinxin
Dr Howie Harshaw
Using the knowledge management framework to improve ecotourism management in protected areas
MSc
BENNETT, Shauna
Dr John Richardson
Stream invertebrates in northwest BC: An assessment of the relative importance of forest harvesting and environment factors at
local and landscape scales
BUFFO, Mike
Dr Stephen Mitchell
Meeting management goals in an urban forest: Vegetation
dynamics and prescriptions in Stanley Park
BURKE, Andrew
Dr Paul McFarlane
A life cycle carbon balance for electricity produced from forest
residues: A British Columbian case study
BURT, Jennifer (Jenn)
Dr Scott Hinch
Influences of parental identity and elevated incubation temperature on the survival, development and early life history traits in
sockeye salmon
EDWORTHY, Amanda
Drs, Kathy Martin and Karen Weibe
Survival of tree cavities: A critical resource for cavity-nesting
communities
FAYED, Manal
Dr Yousry El-Kassaby
Metabolite variation in ecologically diverse black cottonwood,
Populus trichocarpa Torr & A Gray
GATES, Jodie
Dr David Tindall
Public support for climate justice: A survey of British Columbia
residents
Graduate Students
Degrees Granted
GOBERTI, Enrico
TOMASELLI, Maria Fernanda
Dr Peter Marshall
Regeneration in thinned and unthinned uneven-aged interior
Douglas-fir stands
Dr Rob Kozak
Limitations and opportunities for small and medium forest
enterprises in The Gambia: An exploration of the business environment, business development services and financial services
HAASE, Jonathan
Dr Phil Evans
Plasma modification of wood to improve the performance of
clear coatings
VOLLMER, Stephen
HIRATA, Felipe
WOO, Chelsea
Dr Stephen Mitchell
Mapping and modelling the probability of tree-related power
outages using topographic, climate, and stand data
Drs Colette Breuil and Paul Morris
Efficacy of tebuconazole and DDAC in shell-treated wood
HSIEH, Chia-Wen Carmen
Dr Kermit Ritland
Local population structure of white pine weevil (Pissodes strobi
[Peck]) in Interior and sitka spruce stands in British Columbia
Dr John Kadla
Effect of molecular structure on the viscoelastic properties of
cellulose acetate in a ternary system
KHADEMPOUR, Lily
Dr Colette Breuil
Changes in fungal associate abundance over mountain pine
beetle lifecycle using target-specific primers and quantitative
PCR
KLEMMER, Amanda
Dr John Richardson
The influence of stream-derived detritus subsidies on lake benthic community composition and trophic interactions
LIU, Chunling
Dr Phil Evans
Use of confocal profilometry to quantify erosion of wood and
screen chemicals for their ability to photostabilize wood
MALKINSON, Leah
Dr Kermit Ritland
Local population structure of white pine weevil (Pissodes strobi
[Peck]) in Interior and Sitka spruce stands in British Columbia
QIN, Wei
Dr John Kadla
Effect of organoclay reinforcement on pyrolytic-lignin-based
carbon fibres
SCOTT, Adrienne
Drs Maja Krzic & David Scott
Soil water repellency after wildfire in southern British Columbia:
Comparison of methodologies and predictive indicators
SWITZER, Joshua
Dr Cindy Prescott
Thinning and prescribed fire for ecosystem restoration in Rocky
Mountain forests of British Columbia: Changes in physical,
chemical and biological properties of forest floors and soil
Dr Phil Evans
High performance clear-coat systems for wood used outdoors
WYTRYKUSH, Debra
PhD
ALBOUYEH, Rokneddin (Rockney)
Dr Kermit Ritland
Phylogenetic analysis of the transcriptome of spruce (genus
Picea)
ANAND, Richa
Drs Chris Chanway and Sue Grayston
Enedophytic colonization and nitrogen fixation by Paenibacillus
polymyxa in assoiciation with lodgepole pine and Western
redcedar
BARKER, Jason
Dr Suzanne Simard
Natural regeneration potential of Douglas-fir following wildfire
and clearcut harvesting
BINGHAM, Marcus
Dr Suzanne Simard
The role of ectomycorrhizal networks in plant-to-plant facilitation across climatic moisture gradients
BRANTON, Margaret (Maggie)
Dr John Richardson
Can conservation strategies for a single species be used to
inform and guide restoration of ecological structure and function in floodplain ponds?
BYRNE, Kenneth
Dr Stephen Mitchell
Mechanistic modelling of windthrow in spatially complex mixed
species stands in British Columbia
Graduate Students
Degrees Granted
CHAMBERLAIN, Brent
NAKAGAME, Seiji
Dr Mike Meitner
Toward human-centered approaches in landscape planning:
Exploring geospatial and visualization techniques for the management of forest aesthetics
Dr Jack Saddler
The influence of lignin on the enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated
biomass substrates
CHANG, Feng-Cheng (Aries)
Drs Gary Bull and John Nelson
Improvements to the standard forest products trade model
Drs Frank Lam and John Kadla
Creep behaviour of wood-plastic composites made with mountain pine beetle attacked wood
CHEN, Yue (Jessie)
Drs Frank Lam and J. Barrett
Structural performance of box based cross laminated timber
system used in floor applications
CHEN, Juan (Candice)
Dr John Innes
An examination of challenges and issues facing sustainable forest management and forest certification in China
COGGINS, Samuel
Dr Nicholas Coops
Integration of multi-source, multi-scale remotely sensed imagery with ground survey information to provide forest health and
inventory data
NORTHWAY, Steven
RATHBUN, Leah
Drs Val LeMay and Nick Smith
Growth of British Columbia coastal species in response to thinning and fertilization treatments
SOOLANAYAKANAHALLY, Raju
Dr Rob Guy
Latitudinal gradients in adaptive traits of Populus
SZEFTEL, Pascal
Drs Markus Weiler and Dan Moore
Stream-catchment connectivity and streamflow dynamics in a
montane landscape
CURTIS-MCLANE, Sierra
Dr Sally Aitken
Establishment and growth responses of whitebark and lodgepole pine populations in a changing climate
DEWAARD, Jeremy
Drs El-Kassaby and Leland Humble
Forest biomonitoring, biosecurity and DNA barcoding
GHAFGHAZI, Saeed
Drs Taraneh Sowlati and Shahab Sokhansanj
Multi criteria evaluation of wood pellet utilization in district
heating systems
HAJJAR, Reem
Dr John Innes
Community forests for forest communities: An examination of
power imbalances, challenges and goals in Brazil and Mexico
JONES, Trevor
Dr Nicholas Coops
Employing advanced airborne remotely sensed data to improve
terrestrial ecosystem mapping
MCDONNELL, Lisa
Dr Shawn Mansfield
Investigating the role of cellulose synthases in the biosynthesis
and properties of cellulose in secondary cell walls
International Forestry
Hosny El-Lakany
BSc, MSc, PhD, DSc
Director, International
Forestry
604.822.6921
[email protected]
Jorma Neuvonen
MBA, MSc
Director, Special Projects
604.822.2807
[email protected]
Chiara Longhi
BA, MA
Officer, International
Recruitment
604.822.9187
[email protected]
Guangyu Wang
BS, MBA, PhD
Director, Asian Strategies
604.822.8437
[email protected]
THE FACULTY OF FORESTRY at UBC is characterized by its
large and growing number of international undergraduate and
graduate students as well as a range of significant international
research and teaching activities. We are committed to further
internationalization and better communicating our ongoing successes within UBC, our community and globally. The challenges
faced by forests around the globe affect people locally and the
issues facing local forests have global impacts.
International Students and Student Exchange
The Faculty has one of the most diverse student bodies on
campus, with 18% of our undergraduate students and 56% of our
graduate students coming from outside Canada. Although many
of our international students come from the USA and China,
there is still considerable diversity. In the past year, our undergraduates represented 16 countries and our graduate students
represented 39 countries. We provide students with opportunities for international experiences through Go Global programs.
Academic exchange programs offer partner institutions in 36
countries that share formal agreements with UBC. During the
past year, 20 of our students took advantage of this study abroad
program and studied in Australia, China, Philippines, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and
the United States. We hosted 11 international exchange/visiting students from China, Denmark, Netherlands, New Zealand,
Philippines, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States.
China: The Faculty continues to strengthen collaboration
with Chinese forestry universities. After successfully developing a 2+2 transfer program with 3 major forestry universities in
China, we have now developed 2 new undergraduate exchange
programs with Beijing Forestry University and Nanjing Forestry
University through the UBC Go Global Program. The exchange
program with Beijing Forestry University allows UBC students
to study specific forest subjects in China with scholarships from
the Chinese Government to cover tuition and living allowances
while in China. The exchange with Nanjing Forestry University
enables a group of students to go to China for 4 weeks to explore
forestry and conservation issues. The program includes various
activities, including lectures, service learning, field trips, visits to
local industries and to world natural heritage and cultural sites.
Twelve students will go to China in May 2012. During their visit
they will also learn how to do business and promote wood products in China. A recent gift from United Benefits Group (UBG) has
endowed a scholarship to support students in the undergraduate “2+2” transfer program. It is the first time in UBC’s history
that a mainland Chinese company has endowed a scholarship
that funds mainland Chinese students to study at UBC. Currently,
there are 41 students from China in the Faculty through the 2+2
transfer program. In November 2011 we hired Ms Xinxin Zhu as
our China Program Coordinator.
Europe: The Transatlantic Forestry Master dual-degree program (TRANSFOR-M) is a 2-year program leading to a European
and a Canadian master’s degree in forestry and environmental
management. Starting September 2011, 44 students – 24 from
Canadian and 20 from European universities – will have an
opportunity to participate in the TRANSFOR-M program and
earn a dual Canadian and European degree. TRANSFOR-M is
funded by the European Commission and Human Resources and
Skills Development Canada. TRANSFOR-M is a consortium that
comprises 3 Canadian and 4 European universities: University
of British Columbia, University of New Brunswick, University of
Alberta, Albert-Ludwigs-University (Freiburg, Germany), Bangor
University (Wales), University of Eastern Finland, and the Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences.
International Partnership for Forestry Education
The International Partnership for Forestry Education (IPFE,
www.ipfe.fi) is a global network that assists university-level forestry educators to meet society’s needs. Our Faculty has a leadership role in IPFE through Dr Hosny El-Lakany, elected Chair, and
by hosting the network’s secretariat jointly with the University
of Eastern Finland. IPFE strengthened collaboration with the
UBC Chapter of the International Forestry Students Association
(IFSA). The Chair of IPFE participated in the Regional Forestry
College Deans Meeting in The Asia-Pacific Region, held in
Beijing November 2011 and lectured graduate students at CATIE,
Costa Rice on International Forest Policy via video conferences.
IPFE is co-planning the Third International Forestry Education
Symposium with the University of Eastern Finland in October
2012.
In April 2011 we organized and hosted a “Forestry Leaders’
Summit” at UBC as part of our celebration of the International
Year of Forests. The meeting focused on the need to improve the
skill set of forestry graduates in order for them to be able to effect
forest policy decisions and the need for forestry research to be
responsive to global forest policies. The communiqué resulting
from the Summit is a collectively agreed upon official document
that will be presented in future events related to forest governance and policy – such as the Rio + 20 Conference in 2012 and
the 2013 UNFF session. In February 2012, our Faculty hosted a
series of “Future Forest Leaders” events as a fitting culmination
of BC’s activities celebrating the International Year of Forests. The
events, which includied a networking session, conference, poster
session and field trip, focused on graduate students as the future
leaders of forestry both locally and globally.
In August 2011, several members of Faculty travelled to
Yichun in northern China to attend the international conference
on ‘Response of Forests and Adaptation Management to Climate
Change’. The Faculty was one of the co-sponsors of the meeting.
In November 2011, the 2nd meeting of the Asia Pacific Forestry
College Deans provided an opportunity for forestry deans from
around the Pacific to network, compare notes and assess regional
trends in forestry education. Dean John Innes was elected as the
Co-Chair of the organization’s Steering Committee. Drs Sheppard
and Coops were appointed as adjunct professors at the Nanjing
Forestry University.
For the first time, UBC Forestry students attended the annual
meeting of the International Forestry Students Association
(IFSA), held in Helsinki, Finland. Katie Gibson was appointed
as the IFSA Liaison Officer with the Commonwealth Forestry
Association and Fernanda Tomaselli was appointed as the Liaison
Officer with the UN. Richard Shuster was appointed as the new
Web Commissioner and the Regional Representative of North
America. We also facilitated collaboration between major international research institutions such as CIFOR and ICRAF through
Hosny El-Lakany who is a board member of both organizations. The Faculty is also well represented in IUFRO and in the
Commonwealth Forestry Association (Dr John Innes serves as
its chair) and the Asian Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest
Management and Rehabilitation.
In the past year, the Faculty received several delegations from
around the world including 16 delegations from government
agencies, research institutes and universities from China. We also
received delegations from Germany, Finland, Lesotho and Korea.
the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse
University in New York, the Indian Institute of Management in
Bangalore and the Indira Gandhi National Forest Academy in
Dehradun. When the first cycle of this training program is completed this fall, UBC and its partners will have trained 480 senior
officers of the Service, which in total employs 2700 officers.
On-line Learning
We have developed and launched an on-line resource
“Contemporary Topics in Forestry and Natural Resource
Conservation”. This new learning resource offers an introductory video lecture series on a variety of topics. Viewers can watch
lectures by experts (many of whom are professors from the UBC
Faculty of Forestry). The site includes 20 modules covering the
broad disciplines of forestry and natural resource conservation
from forest genetics, sustainable forest management, engineered wood products and marketing to international forest policy. This on-line resource has provided an invaluable contribution
to the “Introduction to Contemporary Forestry and Conservation”
course between UBC`s Faculty of Forestry and Nanjing Forestry
University.
Awards
On November 29th, 2011, Dr Hosny El-Lakany, Adjunct
Professor, Department of Forest Resources Management and
Director of International Forestry at UBC’s Faculty of Forestry, was
recognized by fellow UBC alumni for his work in supporting communities around the world with sustainable forest practices. He
received the Global Citizenship Award at the annual UBC Alumni
Achievement Awards celebration.
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Forest Sciences
120
Forestry
110
100
Natural Resources Conservation
90
Number of Students
International Events and Collaboration
80
70
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50
40
Mid-career Training for the Indian Forestry Service
30
We are providing top-level leaders of the Indian Forest Service
with mid-career training through programs delivered jointly by
the UBC Faculty of Forestry, BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and
Natural Resource Operations, BC Ministry of Environment, and
the Canadian Forest Service. Two groups of 30 participants each
were trained in the summer of 2010 and 3 groups in 2011. Three
more groups will be visiting British Columbia in 2012. The training participants will occupy the leading posts in both state and
federal level forest administration within the next 3-4 years. The
purpose of the programs is to provide them with an increased
knowledge of strategic planning, policy making and governance aspects of forest management. The programs are coordinated by a consortium consisting of the UBC Faculty of Forestry,
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Fax: 604.822.8645
E-mail: [email protected]
www.forestry.ubc.ca/intprogs
www.forestry.ubc.ca/exchange
Aboriginal Forestry
Andrea Lyall
RPF
Sessional Instructor
Aboriginal Forestry
604.822.8089
[email protected]
FOR MORE THAN 15 years, the Faculty has been developing
and implementing its First Nations strategy. Starting with recognition of the increasing importance of British Columbia’s First
Nations in the forest sector, the strategy is expanding to include
the importance of indigenous peoples in all aspects of ecosystem management, including conservation policy, land use planning, and park co-management.
In British Columbia, the need for First Nations involvement
in forested land activities is evident. In November 2004, the
Canadian Supreme Court ruled in the Haida and Taku cases that
First Nations must be consulted at a strategic level in forestry
management. In spite of its view, the Court issued no injunction,
and in late May, 2005, the Haida Nation, along with non-Haida
community members, blockaded forest operations on Haida
Gwaii in protest of actions they felt did not adequately address
the public concerns or Aboriginal rights on the island. This eventually led to a land planning agreement. In other cases, BC courts
have continued to insist that the government consult and accommodate Aboriginal rights, whether proved or likely to be proved.
These and other events contributed to Premier Campbell’s
decision to enter into a “New Relationship” with First Nations in BC.
Leaders of the First Nations Summit, BC Assembly of First Nations
and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs agreed to work on developing
the New Relationship. A New Relationship document described
the BC Government’s intent to establish new legislation and
policy affecting First Nations rights and access to traditional territories. Implementing the policy in legislation has not occurred,
however. Although the extent of the practical effect of the New
Relationship remains to be determined, First Nations are gaining
greater access to forest resources and currently hold over ten
percent of the harvesting rights in British Columbia. A new forest
tenure was announced, the First Nations Woodland Licence and
is hailed superior to the previous Forest and Range Opportunities,
because they are area-based, long term and replaceable agreements. Much remains uncertain, however, because the forest sector is in an extended economic slump, and the consequences of
the mountain pine beetle infestation remain uncertain.
The challenge remains to increase the number of First Nation
Registered Professional Foresters and land managers. The UBC
Faculty of Forestry wishes to provide assistance to First Nations
and the wider forest community in order to meet these challenges and opportunities through its First Nations strategy.
Below is an abbreviated list of achievements over the past
year. They are a reflection of strategies and efforts employed to
maintain established relationships while fostering new ones.
• The position of manager of aboriginal initiatives remained
vacant this year. Gordon Prest, formerly employed full-time,
provided some recruitment activities under contract. During
his “retirement” he continued to serve as co-chair of the First
Nations Advisory Council. The other co-chair is Keith Atkinson.
• The First Nations Council of Advisors met June 6, 2011. The
group reviewed the 2007-2010 Faculty of Forestry Strategic
Plan “Furthering Aboriginal Forestry”. The Faculty has met
many of the specific targets it set for Aboriginal Forestry. First
Nations Council of Advisors discussed goals for 2015. The First
Nations Council of Advisors also discussed the formation of a
Centre for Indigenous Forests.
• Dr Ronald Trosper from the Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the
Flathead Reservation, Montana, after seven years with the faculty moved on to lead the American Indian Studies Department at the University of Arizona as Program Head and Professor accepted a new position as Head of the American Indian
Studies Program at the University of Arizona in Tucson. He
began that position on July 1, 2011.
• Andrea Lyall, Registered Professional Forester from the Kwicksutainuek Nation, BC was successfully recruited as sessional
instructor to instruct Conservation 370 Aboriginal Forestry for
the winter term of 2012.
• A total of 9 undergraduate students, 1 graduate student and
1 doctorate student self identified as Aboriginals in forestry
programs in 2011-2012. Three Aboriginal students will receive
their bachelor’s degree in forestry in 2012.
• Current Faculty First Nations initiatives include the Haida
Semester. Students have the option to go to Haida Gwaii for
one full semester and immerse in local culture – aboriginal
and non-aboriginal.
Aboriginal Forestry
Dr Janette Bulkan has been successfully recruited as
Assistant Professor, Indigenous Forestry. She will begin her
appointment July 1, 2012. Janette is currently a social scientist
in the South America program of ‘Environment, Culture, and
Conservation’ (ECCo), a Division of Science, at The Field Museum
in Chicago. She has spent the past two decades engaged with
indigenous communities of different language groups and cultural traditions.
Continued effort will be directed towards funding and
implementing of the strategic plan and the new community
and Aboriginal forestry specialization in the forest resources
management degree program.
The vision of the plan is as follows:
Guided by indigenous values, and in partnership with all British
Columbians, the UBC Faculty of Forestry will be a global leader in
indigenous forest stewardship, and the building and sharing of forest knowledge for future generations through exceptional learning
experiences.
The mission is as follows:
The Faculty of Forestry will work with the indigenous peoples of
British Columbia and throughout the world to enhance participation and success of Aboriginal people in the forest sector, broadly
defined.
First Nations Council of Advisors
Keith Atkinson
FNCOA Co-Chair, CEO BC First Nations
Forestry Council
Gordon Prest
FNCOA Co-Chair,
ABCFP Honorary Member
Jeremy Boyd
Forester and Operations Forester
Sasquatch Forest Products LLP
John Innes
Lennard Joe
Linc Kesler
Bruce Larson
Maxine Lepine
Dean of Forestry, UBC
Forester and Owner-Operator,
Grizzly-man Resource Management Ltd
Director, First Nations’ House of
Learning Professor and Head Dep’t
of Indigenous Studies
Professor FRM, UBC
Undergraduate Student
Andrea Lyall
Forester, Dzunukwa Resource
Management
Peter Marshall
Associate Dean of Forestry, UBC
Jim McGrath
Forester, Kamloops Indian Band
Garry Merkel
Forester, Tahltan Nations
Debbie Miller
Treaty Officer, Katzie First Nation
Lyle Mueller
Coordinator, Aboriginal Programs UBC Okanagan
David Nordquist
Forester, Adams Lake Indian Band
Angeline Nyce
Darrell Robb
Lawyer and Forester,
Davis LLP, Vancouver
Director, Aboriginal Affairs Branch,
Ministry of Forests, Lands
and Natural Resources
Brian Robinson
Forester, Association of BC Forest
Professionals
Carleigh Smart
Ivan Tallio
Georgina Thomas
Matt Wealick
Teacher, Coquitlam
Director of the Nuxalk Nation’s
Integrated Resources Office
Tlowitsis First Nation
Forester and Manager of
Forest Operations Ch-ihl-kway-uhk
Forestry Limited Partnership
Office of the Dean
Faculty and Staff
INNES, John
BA, MA, PhD (Cantab), CEnv, RPF (Australia)
Dean
604.822.6761
[email protected]
MARSHALL, Peter
BScF, MScF (Tor), PhD (Brit Col), RPF
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies
Responsible for administering undergraduate academic programs,
including curriculum and calendar changes; admissions; retention;
transfers and advancements; awards; discipline and teaching evaluations.
[email protected]
PRESCOTT, Cindy E
BSc (Hons) (Brock), MSc, PhD (Calg)
Associate Dean, Graduate Studies and Research
Responsible for promoting and overseeing administration of externallysponsored research activities, and administering all aspects of Forestry
graduate programs.
[email protected]
WATTS, Susan B
BSc (Wales), MF, PhD (Brit Col), RPF
Assistant Dean, Communications
Responsible for directing communications and external relations, for
promoting research, and for producing Faculty newsletters and annual
reports.
[email protected]
Office of the Dean
Faculty and Staff
ANDERSON, Geoffrey
BComm (Nfld)
Coordinator, Cooperative Education
604.827.5196 [email protected]
MATHEW IYPE, Deepti
BA (Delhi, India), MSc (Sikkim Manipal University, India)
Officer, Development
[email protected]
CHOI, Felix
BCS (Brit Col)
Manager, Computer Lab
MCNABB, Caely-Ann
BA (Brit Col)
Manager, Alumni Relations
CHOU, Julie
BSc (Brit Col), MBA (West Texas A & M)
Senior Assistant, Finance and Operations
MORIZAWA, Caryn
Assistant to the Dean
CURCIN, Ana
BA (Brit Col), MA (University of Victoria)
Assistant, Student Services
DRAKES, Renita
BA (Brit Col)
Coordinator, Education and Web Technology
JOHANSSON, Carl
BSc, PhD (S Fraser) MCSE
Manager, IT Systems
KELLETT, Janna
BA (S Fraser)
Coordinator, Development
KOLEVA, Eli
MSc (Bulgaria)
Executive Coordinator, Dean’s Office
KOSH, Gayle
DipT (Calg)
Manager, Graduate Programs
LEE, Nicole
BSc (Brit Col)
Administrative Assistant, Dean’s Office
[email protected]
LEE, Yuko Ikegami
BFA (Joshibi, Japan)
Officer, International Recruitment
LONGHI, Chiara
BA, MA (Pisa, Italy)
Acting Director, Student Services
MYERS, Jamie
HND (Lond)
Coordinator, Editorial and Graphic Design
NAIDU, Dan
Coordinator, Graduate Awards and Scholarships
NEUVONEN, Jorma
MBA (Brit Col), MSc (Finland)
Director, Special Projects
POIRIER-VASIC, Robin
BAA (Ryerson)
Admissions Coordinator, Graduate Programs
SHARWOOD, Colin
BEcon, BCom (Hons) (S Africa), CGA
Director, Finance and Administration
WANG, Guangyu
PhD (Brit Col), MBA (Marylhurst, Oregon)
Director, Asian Strategies
YU, Jill
BBA (S Fraser), CGA
Manager, Finance
ZHU, Xinxin
BSc (Ocean University of China), MF (Brit Col)
Coordinator, 2 + 2 Program
Office of the Dean
Forest Sciences Centre
2005 – 2424 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Phone: 604.822.2727
Fax: 604.822.8645
Forest Resources
Management Department
Faculty and Staff
El-Kassaby, Yousry
HOBERG, George
Professor, Head (Pro-Tem) and
NSERC Chair in Applied
Forest Genetics and Biotechnology
Quantitative Genetics
BSc (1970) Alexandra, MSc (1976) Tanta
PhD (1980) Brit Col
604.822.1821
[email protected]
Professor
Policy and Governance
BS (1980) Calif, Berkeley, PhD (1987) MIT
ALILA, Younes
INNES, John
Associate Professor
Forest Engineering Hydrology
BASc (1985), MASc (1987),
PhD (1994) Ottawa, PEng
Dean and Forest Renewal BC Chair in
Forest Management
Sustainable Forest Management,
Cumulative Impacts Analysis, First Nations
BA (1979), MA (1983), PhD (1983)
Cantab, CEnv
BENDICKSON, Dennis
LARSON, Bruce
Senior Instructor and Director, Forest
Operations Major
Forest Operations
BSF (1971) Brit Col, RPF
Professor and Forest Renewal BC Chair
in Silviculture
Silviculture and Management
AB (1976) Harvard, MFS (1978) Yale,
PhD (1982) Washington
[email protected]
BULL, Gary
LeMAY, Valerie
Associate Professor
Forest Economics and Forest Policy
BSF (1988), MF (1991) Brit Col,
PhD (1995) Tor
Professor
Biometrics and Mensuration
BSc (1981), MSc (1982) Alta,
PhD (1989) Brit Col, RPF
COOPS, Nicholas
LYONS, C Kevin
Professor and Canada Research Chair
in Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing and Spatial Data Modeling
in Forestry and Ecology
BAppSc (1991), PhD (1996), RMIT
Melbourne
DELONG, Deb
Lecturer
Sustainable Forest Management
BSF (1985) Brit Col, Dipl (1997) S Fraser,
MSc (2005) Brit Col, RPF
[email protected]
Associate Professor
Forest Engineering
BSF (1997), MF (1998) Brit Col,
PhD (2001) Oregon State, RPF
MARSHALL, Peter
Professor and Associate Dean,
Undergraduate Studies
Growth and Yield, Sampling Design
BScF (1976), MScF (1979) Tor,
PhD (1984) Brit Col, RPF
Forest Resources
Faculty and Staff
TINDALL, David
MEITNER, Michael
Associate Professor
Environmental Perception and Visualization,
Recreation, GIS
BSc (1992), MA (1998), PhD (1999) Arizona
Associate Professor (Forest
Resources Management, Sociology)
Environmental Sociology and Social
Research Methods
BA (1985), MA (1989) Vic,
PhD (1994) Tor
604.822.2550
[email protected]
MOORE, R Dan
WOOD, Paul
Associate Professor
Conservation Policy, Environmental
Ethics
BSc (1973), PhD (1994) Brit Col, RPF,
RPBio
Professor (Forest Resources Management,
Geography) and Forest Renewal BC Chair in
Forest Hydrology
Hydrology
BSc (Hons) (1979) Brit Col,
PhD (1984) Canterbury, PGeo
NELSON, Harry
Assistant Professor
Forest Policy and Economics
BA (1983) Carleton, MPP (1987) Harvard,
MSc (1990), PhD (1999) Brit Col
NELSON, John
Professor and Director, Forest
Resources Management Major
Timber Supply Planning
BSF (1980), MBA (1982) Brit Col,
PhD (1988) Oregon State, RPF
SHEPPARD, Stephen
Professor (Forest Resources Management,
Landscape Architecture) and Director, CALP
Visual Management, Planning, Visualization,
Communicating Climate Change
BA (1974) Oxf, MSc (1976) Brit Col,
MA (1980) Oxf, PhD (1982) Calif, Berkeley
Sessional Lecturers
BURCH, Sarah
BA, BSc (Calgary)
PhD (Brit Col)
Sustainability Governance and Community Transitions
HARSHAW, Howard
BA (Lakehead), HBOR (Lakehead),
MA, PhD (Brit Col)
Forest Recreation
LYALL, Andrea
BSc (Brit Col) RPF
Aboriginal Forestry
Research Associates
HARSHAW, Howard
BA (Lakehead), HBOR (Lakehead),
PhD (Brit Col)
Forest Recreation
SEELY, Brad
BS (Redlands), PhD (Boston)
Nutrient Dynamics and Forest Hydrology
WELHAM, Clive
BSc, MSc (Manit), PhD (S Fraser)
Biosciences
TAIT, David
Assistant Professor
Optimization Techniques, Forest Planning
BSc (1968), MSc (1970), PhD (1983) Brit Col
Forest Resources
2045 – 2424 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4
Phone 604.822.3482
Fax 604.822.9106
Forest Resources
Faculty and Staff
Faculty Associate
CAO, Sam
PhD (Nanjing University)
Post-doctoral Fellows
CHEN, Juan (Candice)
B Management (Jiangsu), MASc
(Nanjing), PhD (UBC)
Sustainable Forest Management, Forest
Certification, Supply Chain Analysis
FARNDEN, Craig
Tech Dipl (BCIT), BSF, PhD (UBC), RPF
Quantitative Silviculture
DE LA ROCHE, Ian
(Formerly FPInnovations)
BSc, MSc, PhD
Forest Industry Policy
EL-LAKANY, Hosny
(Former Head Forestry Department,
FAO/UN)
BSc, MSc, PhD, DSc
International Forest Policy
ELLIOTT, Chris
(WWF Canada)
BSc, MES, PhD
Forest Policy, Biodiversity and Certification
GUO, Fu Tao
BS, MS, PhD (NFU, China)
HOI, Paul
(Carbon Revenue Services)
BSc, MSc, PhD
Bioenergy and Forest Product Development
HAJJAR, Reem
BSc (McGill) MA (Columbia)
PhD (Brit Col)
Community-based Forest Management in
Developing Countries
HUDSON, Robert
(BC Ministry of Forests, Lands and
Natural Resource Operations)
Forest Hydrology
HEMBER, Robbie
BSc Hons., MSc (Trent), PhD (UBC)
Bioclimatology
ILES, Kimberley
(Consultant)
BS, MSc, PhD
Forest Inventory
KLENK, Nicole
BSc, MSc (McGill), PhD (UBC)
Governance for Sustainability
NIJLAND, Wiebe
MSc, PhD (Utrect)
Spatial Modeling of Biodiversity
NIKOLAKIS, William
B Business, BL (Australia), PhD (S
Australia)
Sustainable Resource Management
NORTHWAY, Steve
BSc, MF, PhD (UBC)
Strategic Forest Management
SCHROTH, Olaf
Vordiplom (Hannover), MA (Newcastle),
PhD (Zurich)
Interactive Landscape Visualization
Adjunct Professors
COHEN, Stewart
(Environment Canada, Adaptation &
Impacts Research Division)
BSc, MSc, PhD
Climate Change, Impacts and Adaptation
DAVIS, Rod
(Ministry of Environment, Director Emeritus)
BSc, MSc, PAg
Ecosystem and Biodiversity Conservation
KURZ, Werner
(Canadian Forest Service)
Dip Holzwirt, PhD
Forest Ecosystem Modelling
LECKIE, Donald G
BSc, PhD
Remote Sensing
MAGNUSSEN, Steen
MSc, PhD
Forest Inventory and Biometrics
MANESS, Thomas C
(Forest Engineering, Resources and
Management, Oregon State University)
BSF, MSc, PhD
Forest Economics and Policy Analysis
MATAKALA, Patrick
(WWF-Zambia)
BSc, MSc, PhD
Community Resource Management and
Conservation Planning
OGDEN, Aynslie
(Gov’t of Yukon)
BSc, MSc, PhD
ROBERTS, Don
(CIBC World Markets Inc)
BSc, MSc, MBA
Forest Economics and Finance,
SMITH, Nicholas
(Consultant)
BSc, MF, PhD
Biometrics, Inventory, Silvicultural Investment
Analysis, Growth and Yield
TROSPER, Ronald
(American Indian Studies Program
University of Arizona)
BA, MA, PhD
Aboriginal Forestry
WEILER, Markus
(Freiburg University)
MSc, PhD
Watershed Hydrology
WINKLER, Rita D
BSF, MSc, PhD
Watershed Management, Snow Hydrology
WULDER, Mike
Forest Geomatics, Remote Sensing
YIN, Yongyuan
(Environment Canada)
BSc, MSc, MA, PhD
Climate Change, Impacts and Adaptation
ZUMRAWI, Abdel Azim
(Consultant)
BSc, MSc, PhD
Biometrics, Growth and Yield
Professors Emeriti
ADAMOVICH, L
Professor Emeritus (1984)
CHAMBERS, AD
Associate Professor Emeritus (1997)
DOOLING, PJ
GOLDING, DL
HALEY, D
KOZAK, A
MUNRO, DD
Forest Resources
MURTHA, PA
PEARSE, PH
REED, FLC
YOUNG, GG
Staff
AIREY, Adelle
Administrative Assistant, CALP
AKAI, Heather
Administrator
AQUINO, David
BSc (La Molina, Peru), MF (Brit Col)
Research Assistant, Senior Technician
BARRON, Sara
MLA (Brit Col)
Research Scientist, CALP
COTE, Shirlene
BSc (Guelph), MEd (SFU)
Social Mobilizations Research Coordinator, Pacific Institute for
Climate Solutions
FLANDERS, David
BSc (Calgary), MLA (Brit Col)
MAEDEL, Jerry
BFA, TC (Vic), MSc (Brit Col)
GIS/RS Coordinator
MCPHERSON, Debbie
Arts Dipl (Camosun)
Department Secretary
PILON, Angelique
BSc (Michigan), MArch (Brit Col)
Coordinator, CIRS Decision Theatre Project
POND, Ellen
BA (Brit Col), MLA (Brit Col)
RELOVA, Marissa
BA (Maryknoll Coll, The Philippines)
Financial Clerk
SALTER, Jon
BSc, MSc, (Brit Col)
Manager, CIRS Decision Theatre Project
TATEBE, Kristi
BSc, MSc (Brit Col)
VERWOERD, Harry
Computer Support Specialist
• Dr Yousry El-Kassaby was appointed Head Pro Tem. A search
for an external Head is underway.
• Drs Alila, Coops, and Meitner received ongoing NSERC funding. Drs H Harshaw and H Nelson received SSHRC funding.
• Drs Bull and J Nelson received funding from Value Chain Network; Dr Marshall received on-going ForValueNet funding.
• The Department underwent an External Review, May 9-11,
2011.
• Dr Janette Bulkan was successfully recruited as Assistant Professor, Indigenous Forestry, effective July 1, 2012. She replaces
Dr Ron Trosper.
• Dr John Innes received a $1million grant from the Asia Pacific
Network.
• CONS 370 (Aboriginal Forestry) was taught by Andrea Lyall,
First Nations Council of Advisors.
• Deb DeLong was appointed as a 12-month Lecturer to help
launch the new course-based Masters of Sustainable Forest
Management program. She will also teach in the program.
• Environment Canada scientists Drs Stewart Cohen and
Yongyuan Yin and Bing Rong, previously located in our
Department, have been relocated to other Environment Canada offices. We will continue our association with Drs Cohen
and Yin in their capacity as Adjunct Professors.
• Dr Younes Alila’s paper (Forest harvesting effects on the magnitude and frequency of peak flows can increase with return
period) was selected by the American Geophysical Union
(AGU) to be a Spotlight Research Paper.
• Dr Gary Bull was part of a research team awarded the Aboriginal Partnership Research Award 2012, by the Lakehead University Office of Research Services, Office of Aboriginal Initiatives and the Ogimaawin-Aboriginal Governance Council.
• Dr Hosny El Lakany, Adjunct Professor, winner of the 2011
UBC Alumni Achievement Award for Global Citizenship. Dr El
Lakany was recognized at a dinner, hosted by UBC President,
Professor Stephen Toope.
• Dr Ian de la Roche, Adjunct Professor, will be the 2012 recipient of the Dr Don Rix Award for Lifetime Achievement at the
LifeSciences BC Awards on April 19.
• Nicholas Coops was awarded a Senior Killam Research Award.
• Dr Stephen Sheppard was appointed a UBC Sustainability
Research Fellow by the Research Partnership Office.
• Dr Stephen Sheppard published a new book entitled “Visualizing Climate” from Earthscan/Routledge.
• Appoint new Department Head.
• A strategic planning process is being undertaken following
the release of the Faculty’s strategic plan. Dr John Nelson is
heading this process.
• The new course based Masters of Sustainable Forest Management program will launch in September.
• Start development of the new course based Masters in International program.
Forest Sciences
Department
Faculty and Staff
RICHARDSON, John
DANIELS, Lori
Professor and Head
Stream and Riparian Ecosystems
BSc (‘79) Tor, MSc (‘83) Alta, PhD (‘89)
Brit Col
[email protected]
Associate Professor
Forest Dynamics, Disturbance Regimes and
Dendrochronology
BSc (‘91) Manit, MSc (‘94) Brit Col, PhD
(‘00) Colorado
AITKEN, Sally
EL-KASSABY, Yousry
Professor and Director, Forest Sciences
Program and Director, Centre for Forest
Gene Conservation
Forest Genetics and Gene Conservation
BSF (Hons) (‘84) Brit Col,
MSc (‘86), PhD (‘89) Calif, Berkeley
[email protected]
Professor and NSERC Chair in Applied
Forest Genetics and Biotechnology
Quantitative Genetics
BSc (‘70) Alexandra, MSc (‘76) Tanta,
PhD (‘80) Brit Col
ARCESE, Peter
GERGEL, Sarah
Professor and Forest Renewal BC Chair in
Applied Conservation Biology
Population Ecology of Birds and Mammals
BA (‘81) Wash, MSc (‘85), PhD (‘88) Brit Col
Associate Professor
Watershed Landscape Ecology
BS (‘92) Florida, MS (‘96), PhD (‘01)
Wisconsin
BOHLMANN, Jörg
GRAYSTON, Susan
Professor, Distinguished University
Scholar, NSERC EWR Steacie Fellow
Plant/Insect Interactions, Forest Health,
Genomics, Biochemistry, Biotechnology
BSc (‘88), MSc (‘91), PhD (‘95)
Braunschweig, Germany
Professor and Canada Research Chair
in Soil Microbial Ecology
Soil Microbial Ecology
BSc (‘82), PhD (‘87) Sheffield
CARROLL, Allan
GUY, Robert
Associate Professor
Forest Entomology
BSc (‘88) S Fraser, PhD (‘93) New
Brunswick
CHANWAY, Christopher
Professor (Forest Sciences, Land and
Food Systems)
Soil Microbiology
BSc (‘78) Winn, BS Ag (‘80) Manit,
MSc (‘83), PhD (‘87) Brit Col
Professor
Plant Physiology
BSc (‘77), PhD (‘84) Calg
[email protected]
HAMELIN, Richard
Professor (Canadian Forest Service)
Plant Pathology
BSc (‘82) McGill, MSc (‘86) S Fraser,
PhD (‘91) Kentucky
Forest Sciences
Department
Faculty and Staff
HINCH, Scott
Professor and Director, Natural
Resources Conservation Program
(Forest Sciences, Institute for Resources
and Environment)
Aquatic Ecology and Fish Conservation
BSc (Hons) (‘85), MSc (‘87) W Ont, PhD
(‘92) Tor
KRZIC, Maja
RITLAND, Kermit
Professor
Population and Quantitative Genetics
BSc (‘77) Wash, PhD (‘82) Calif, Davis
[email protected]
SIMARD, Suzanne
Associate Professor (Forest Sciences,
Land and Food Systems)
Soil Science
BSc (‘86), MSc (‘90) (Belgrade),
Professor
Forest Ecology and Silvics
BSF (‘83) Brit Col, MS (‘89),
PhD (‘95) Oregon
[email protected]
LAVALLEE, Suzie
SULLIVAN, Thomas
Lecturer
Insect Ecology and Conservation
BSc (‘94), MSc (‘99), PhD (‘06) Brit Col
[email protected]
Professor (Forest Sciences, Land and
Food Systems)
Wildlife Ecology
BSc (Hons) (‘73), MSc (‘76),
[email protected]
MARTIN, Kathy
WATTS, Susan
Professor (Environment Canada)
Avian Ecology and Conservation
BSc (‘70) Prince Edward Is,
MSc (‘73) Alta, PhD (‘85) Qu
Lecturer and Assistant Dean,
Communications
Forest Entomology
BSc (‘73) Wales, MF (‘76),
PhD (‘81) Brit Col, RPF
[email protected]
MITCHELL, Stephen
Associate Professor and Director, Master
of Sustainable Forest Management
Program
Silviculture
BSF (‘87), PhD (‘99) Brit Col, RPF
[email protected]
PRESCOTT, Cindy
Professor and Associate Dean,
Graduate Studies and Research
Forest Nutrition
BSc (Hons) (‘81) Brock, MSc (‘84),
PhD (‘88) Calg
[email protected]
Forest Sciences Department
3041 – 2424 Main Mall
Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4
Phone 604.822.2507
Fax 604.822.9102
Forest Sciences
Department
Faculty and Staff
Sessional Lecturers
BLACKWELL, Bruce
MSc (Brit Col) RPF
Fire and Climate
SAJEDI, Toktam
BSc (Gorgan), MSc (Tehran), PhD (Brit
Col)
Ecosystem Ecology, Biochemistry
Research Associates
BLANCO VACA, Juan
PhD (Navarra)
Forest Ecology, Nutrient Cycling and
Ecosystem-level Modelling
BOYLE, Alice
BA (Brit Col), PhD (Arizona)
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
CHAN-McLEOD, Ann C Allaye
BSF, MSc (Brit Col), PhD (Alaska)
Physiological Ecology
DORDEL, Julia
BSc/MSc (Freiburg), MSc, PhD (Brit Col)
Forest Sciences, Forest Ecology and
Management
FEAU, Nicolas
PhD (Laval)
Forest Pathology
HODGINS, Kathryn
BSc, PhD (Tor)
Evolutionary Genomics/Genetics
KRCMAR, Emina
BSc, MSc, PhD (Belgrade)
Decision Analysis Under Multiple Criteria and
Uncertainty
PICKLES, Brian
BSc Hons (Edinburgh), MSc, PhD
(Aberdeen)
Ecology
RITLAND, Carol
BSc, MSc (Brit Col), PhD (Tor)
Molecular Genetics
ROBLES DIEZ, Hugo
BSc, PhD (Leon)
Animal Ecology and Conservation
SMETS, Pia
MSc (Leuven), PhD (Brit Col)
Forest Genetics, Genecology
TSUI, Clement
BSc, PhD (Hong Kong)
Mycology, Phylogeny, Evolution, and
Population Genetics
WANG, Tongli
MSc, PhD (Helsinki)
Forest Tree Breeding
Honorary Research
Associates
La MANTIA, Jonathan
BSc (Rhode Island), PhD (Pennsylvania)
Forest Genomics
COOKE, Steven J
BES, MSc (Waterloo), PhD (Illinois)
NSERC and Izaak Killam Fellowship
Fish Conservation
LOTTERHOS, Kathleen
BA State (Univ New York, Binghamton)
PhD (Florida)
Landscape Genetics
JACKSON, Michael
BSc (E Anglia), MSc (Lond), PhD (E Anglia)
Biology of Shallow Lakes, Ecotoxicology, and
Biodiversity Conservation
MA, Brian
BSc (Calg), MSc (Tor), PhD (S Fraser)
Fish Ecology
WELLS, Ralph
BSc, MRM (S Fraser)
Applied Forest Ecology
ZHANG, Yixin
BSc (Nanjing), PhD (Umeå)
Stream Ecology
MAGEROY, Jon
BA (Concordia), MSc, PhD (Bergen)
Ecological and Evolutionary Parasitology
MARTINS, Eduardo
BSc, MSc, PhD (Estadual de Campinas)
Ecology
MCKOWN, Athena
BSc (Alta), PhD (Tor)
Plant and Microbial Biology
AITKEN, Kathryn
BSc (S Fraser), MSc, PhD (Brit Col)
Applied Conservation Research
OJEDA ALAYON, Dario Isidro
BSc (Yucatan), MSC (Yucatan), PhD (Brit Col)
Population Genomics and Evolution
BAO, Hua
BSc (S China Normal), PhD (Sun Yat-Sen)
Evolutionary Genomics
RAMAKRISHNAN, Alisa P
BSc, MS (Brigham Young), PhD (Portland)
Genetical Genomics
BARKER, Jason
BA (Towson), MA (Portland),
PhD (Brit Col)
Forest Ecology
SAKALIDIS, Monique L
BSc Hons, PhD, (Murdoch)
Fungal Genomics
BECKMANN, Christa
BSc Hons (Guelph), MSc (Regina), PhD
(Sydney)
Life History Theory
BOIZARD, Sophie
BSc (Vic), PhD (Brit Col)
Marine Biology and Biomechanics
BRYNE, Ken
BSF, MSc, PhD (Brit Col)
Silviculture
COCKLE, Kristina
BSc (Brit Col), MSc (Dalhousie), PhD (Brit
Col)
Avian Ecology
CROSSIN, Glenn
BA (Maine), BSc (New Hampshire), MSc,
PhD (Brit Col)
Behavioural and Physiological Ecology
DHILLON, Braham
BSc (Hons), MSc (Punjab Agricultural),
PhD (Purdue)
Fungal Genomics
KLAPSTE, Jaroslav
BSC, PhD (Czech Republic)
Forest Genetics
SEXTON, Timothy
BSc (Hons) (James Cook), PhD (Southern
Cross)
Forest Molecular Genetics
SPENS, Johan
BSc (Uppsala), PhD (SLU)
Landscape Aquatic Ecology
THORPE, Hilary
BSc, PhD (Tor)
Forest Ecology and Management
YEAMAN, Sam
BSc (Trent), PhD (Brit Col)
Evolutionary Genetics
Adjunct Professors
BULMER, Charles
BSc, MSc, PhD
Productivity of Disturbed and
Rehabilitated Soils
COATES, David
BSF, MSc, PhD
Silviculture and Forest Ecology
Forest Sciences
Department
Faculty and Staff
DREVER, Mark
(Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment
Canada)
BSc (Tor), MPM (S Fraser), PhD (Guelph)
Avian Ecology and Conservation
HUMBLE, Leland
BSc, PhD
Entomology
ISABEL, Nathalie
(Laurentian Forestry Centre, Canadian
Forest Service)
BSc, PhD (Laval)
Forest Genomics
MARTIN, Tara
(CSIRO, Australia)
BSc (Griffith), PhD (Queensland)
Population and Conservation Biology
KIMMINS, JP
KLINKA, K
LAVENDER, D
McLEAN, JA
NORTHCOTE, T
van der KAMP, B
WEETMAN, G
WORRALL, J
MILLER, Kristina
(Fisheries and Oceans, Canada)
BSc, MSc, PhD
Functional Genomics, Molecular Genetics,
Salmon
Staff
NEWMAN, Reg
BSc, BSF, PhD
Range Ecology
BEAUSEIGLE, Stephanie
BSc, MSc (Laval)
Research Assistant/Technician
STOEHR, Michael
BSc, MSc, PhD
Advanced Generation Seed Orchards
YANCHUK, Alvin
BSc, MSc, PhD
Gene Conservation
Faculty Associates
CLARK, Timothy
(Australian Institute of Marine Science)
BSc, PhD (La Trobe)
Ecophysiology and Behavioural Energetics of
Migrating Salmonids
DURALL, Daniel
(UBC Okanagan)
BSc, PhD
Mycorrhizal Ecology
Professors Emeriti
BUNNELL, FL
FELLER, M
AZAM, Shofiul
BSc (Dhaka), MSc (Japan)
BERG, Nora
BSc (Alta)
CHAN, Andrea
BSc (Brit Col)
Financial Clerk
CHANG, Alice
BSc, MSc, (Brit Col), PhD (Carleton)
Research Scientist
CHENG, Rosemarie
BSIE (UP, The Philippines)
Financial Coordinator
DEL BEL, Kate
BSc (Guelph), MSc (Cal)
Research Scientist
DESCALZO, Rolando
MPM, PhD (S Fraser)
Collections Manager
FILLON Joël
BSc, MSc, (Grenoble)
Bioinformation/Database Manager
FITZPATRICK, Connor
BSc (Brit Col)
HERATH, Padmini
BSc (Sri Lanka), MSc (Pennsylvania State)
LAI, Ben
BSc, MSc (Brit Col)
LIAO, Limin
BSc (Changsha), MSc (Beijing)
LOTTO, Andrew
RMOT (Malaspina)
MANESS, Katherine
BSc (Brit Col)
MISCAMPBELL, Allyson
BSc (Lakehead), MSc (Brit Col)
Research Scientist
MOY, Arnold
BSc (Brit Col)
GIS Specialist
MUTIA, Christine
B Admin (UP, The Philippines)
Financial Clerk
NURKOWSKI, Kristin
BSc (Brit Col)
QUAMME, Linda
BA (Washington), BSc (Brit Col)
SETO, Carrie
BA (HK)
Administrator
THOMPSON, Natasha
BA (Vic)
Departmental Secretary
TUYTEL, Joanne
BSc (Brit Col)
YUEH, Hesther
BSc (McGill)
Project Manager
YUEN, Agnes
BSc (Brit Col)
New Appointment
Dr Lori Daniels joined the Forest
Sciences Department as an Associate
Professor with tenure in July 2011. Prior
to joining our department, she held a
full time appointment in the Geography
Department at UBC. Her research interests include forest dynamics, disturbance
regimes and dendrochronology.
HODGES, Norman
BSc (Vic)
Computer Specialist
Forest Sciences
Department
• Dr John Richardson was appointed as Department Head
effective January 2012, replacing Dr Robert Guy who ably
led the department for the past 6 years.
• A search is underway for an instructor in Natural Resources
Conservation (NRC). The instructor will be involved in the
teaching, coordination, and development of undergraduate
and graduate courses in the NRC Program.
• A full external review of the department was undertaken
in May 2011. This external review provided a strong and
positive endorsement for the department.
• Drs Aitken, Hamelin and Ritland were awarded new Genome
BC grants over 3 years, while Drs El-Kassaby, Guy and Hamelin
received continuing grants from Genome B.C.
• Drs Aitken, Arcese, Chanway, Daniels, El-Kassaby, Gergel,
Grayston, Guy, Hamelin, Hinch, Martin, Mitchell, Prescott,
Richardson, Ritland and Simard hold ongoing NSERC
Discovery grants.
• Drs Grayston and Prescott were awarded a new NSERC CRD
grant for 4 years.
• Dr Simard received a new NSERC Collaborative Research and
Training (CREATE) Program grant for 6 years.
• Dr Yousry El-Kassaby was made Professor Honoris Causa
at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. Yousry has
collaborated with several forest geneticists from the Czech
University’s Department of Dendrology and Forest Tree
Breeding including supervising graduate students and
hosting visiting professor. Several research papers were
published during this collaboration.
• Dr Scott Hinch received the 2011 Excellence in Fisheries
Education Award by the American Fisheries Society. The
award is given “in recognition of continuous dedication to
the teaching profession and personal contributions to the
education of fisheries professionals”.
• Dr Suzie Lavallee will be awarded the 2011/12 Killam
Teaching Award for the Faculty of Forestry at the Convocation
Ceremony for Forestry in late May.
• Richard Schuster (PhD – Peter Arcese) was awarded an
Australian Endeavour Research Fellowship which is an
internationally competitive, merit-based scholarship program
providing opportunities for citizens of the Asia pacific, the
Middle East, Europe and the Americas to undertake study,
research and professional development in Australia.
• The Centre for Applied Conservation Research and Faculty
of Forestry hosted Nancy Baron, renowned science
communicator for an evening lecture and two half day
workshops designed to get environmental and conservation
scientists ‘out of the Ivory Tower’ and increase their ability
to communicate research results to media professionals and
the public.
• The Department hosted the Schaffer Lecture on February 24,
2012. Tiina Vähänen, Team Leader, Climate, Energy and Tenure
Division of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations, Rome, Italy, gave a presentation on “Safeguarding
Natural Resources: Forestry in International Debates”.
• The Department carried on its weekly seminar series for
the third year, featuring our graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
• The Department will be convening a 1-day research
symposium on April 12, 2012 for all department members to
meet and talk about their research.
• Dr John Richardson will help organizing the 7th World
Congress of Herpetology in Vancouver from 8-14 August
2012.
• Dr Kathy Martin will organize and chair the 5th North
American Ornithological Conference at UBC, 14-18 August,
2012 to be held for the first time in Canada. This meeting
is held every 4 years, and features a full range of topics on
research and management of birds in The Americas.
• We will maintain a high rate of proposal submissions to
NSERC, Genome BC/Genome Canada and other funding
agencies.
• We will continue our weekly departmental seminars.
Wood Science
Department
Faculty and Staff
KOZAK, Robert
EVANS, Philip D
Professor and Head
Sustainable Business Management
BSc (1988), PhD (1996) Brit Col
Professor and BC Leadership Chair in
Advanced Forest Products
Manufacturing Technology
Photoprotection and Modification of Wood
BSc (Hons) (1980), PhD (1985) Wales,
FIAWS
AVRAMIDIS, Stavros
FÜRST, Robert
Professor
Wood Physics and Drying
BSF (1981) Thessaloniki, MS (1983),
PhD (1986) SUNY, Syracuse, FIAWS
Senior Instructor
Manufacture of Secondary Wood Products
Master Dip (1992) Augsburg, Germany
BREUIL, Colette
KADLA, John
Professor
Forest Products Biotechnology
BSc (1971) Lyon, MSc (1974) Ottawa,
PhD (1977) Lyon
Professor and Canada Research Chair in
Advanced Biomaterials Chemistry
Polymer Chemistry and Materials Science
BSc (1989) Brit Col, PhD (1997)
N Carolina, FIAWS
COHEN, David
LAM, Frank
Professor
Forest Products Marketing and Management
Dip For Tech (1976) Selkirk, BSc (1986)
Idaho, PhD (1989) Virginia Polytech
Professor and Senior Chair in Wood
Building Design and Construction
Timber Engineering
BASc (1982), MASc (1985),
PhD (1992) Brit Col, PEng
CRAMOND, Patrick
MANSFIELD, Shawn
Senior Instructor (Wood Science,
Mechanical Engineering)
BASc (1974) Brit Col, PEng
Professor and Canada Research Chair in
Wood and Fibre Quality
Biotechnology and Chemistry of Wood Fibres
BSc (Hons) (1992) Mt Allison, MSc (1994)
Dal, PhD (1997) Brit Col, FIAWS
ELLIS, Simon
MCFARLANE, Paul
Associate Professor and Director, Wood
Products Processing Program
Wood Anatomy and Quality
BSc (Hons) (1983) Wales, MSc (1986),
PhD (1989) Brit Col
Professor
Environmental Aspects of Wood Products
and Processing
B Tech (Hons) (1973), PhD (1979) Massey
FIAWS
Wood Science
Department
Faculty and Staff
RUDDICK, John
Professor
Wood Preservation
BSc (1965), MSc (1966) Newcastle,
PhD (1970) Lond
SADDLER, Jack
Professor
Forest Products Biotechnology/Bioenergy
BSc (Hons) (1975) Edin, PhD (1978) Glas,
FIAWS
[email protected]
SMITH, Gregory
Associate Professor
Wood Composites
BASc (1988), MASc (1992) Brit Col,
Dr sc techn (1996) Swiss Federal Inst, PEng
SOWLATI, Taraneh
Associate Professor
Operational Research, Performance
Assessment
BSc (1990) Sharif, MASc (1996) Tarbiat
Modares, PhD (2001) Tor
TANNERT, Thomas
Assistant Professor and Associate Chair in
Wood Building Design and Construction
Timber Engineering
Dipl-Ing (2001) Bauhaus, Germany, MASc
(2002) University Bio-Bio Concepcion,
Chile, PhD (2008) Brit Col
Research Associates
ARANTES,Valdeir
BEng, PhD (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Bioprocessing of Biomass Foodstocks
CHANDRA, Richard
BSc, MSc (Brit Col), PhD (Georgia Institute of Technology/
Institute of Paper Science and Technology, USA)
Wood Chemistry
LAZARESCU, Ciprian
BSc, MSc, (Transilvania, Brasov, PhD (Brit Col)
Wood Physics and Drying
PORTH, Ilga
MSc, PhD (Vienna)
Genomics, Plant Biochemistry
TIMKO, Joleen
BSc, MSc, PhD (Brit Col)
Social Equity and Ecological Integrity
WANG, Ye
BSc, MSc, PhD (China Agricultural)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
ALEMAGI, Dieudonne
BSc (Cameroon), MSc, PhD (Brandenburg, Germany)
Environment and Resource Management
AWAL, Abdul
BSc (DU Dhaka), MSc (TUD, Germany), PhD (Toronto)
Biocomposites and Textile Chemistry
CHANG, Feng-Cheng
BSc, MSc (National Taiwan University), PhD (Brit Col)
Wood-Based Composite Materials
CHEN, Yue
BSc (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), MASc, PhD (Brit Col)
Timber Engineering and Applied Mechanics
CHOWDHURY, Sudip
BSc(Calcutta), MSc (Forest Research institute), MS
(Washington State University), PhD (Virginia Tech)
Structure and Viscoelasticity of Lignocellulosics
GUANGZHENG, Gao
BEng (Beijing University of Material Science and
Aeronautics), MSc (Research Institute of Petroleum
Processing, Beijing) MA (Shandong University, Jinan), PhD
(Fudan University, Shanghai)
Functionalized Lignin Copolymers
Wood Science Department
2900 – 2424 Main Mall
Phone: 604.822.9352
Fax: 604.822.9159
[email protected]
www.wood.ubc.ca
Wood Science
Department
Faculty and Staff
HAJJAR, Reem
BSc (McGill), MSc (Columbia), PhD (Brit Col)
Community Forestry
HAN, Dong (Kevin)
BSc, MSc, PhD (State University of New York)
Electrospun Nanostructured Lignin Carbon
Fibers
HARIDAS, Sajeet Kalathil
BSc, MSc (Mumbai, India), PhD
(Minnesota, USA)
Genome Sequencing and Analysis
KARAASLAN, Muzaffer
BSc, MSc (Ege University, Turkey), PhD
(Auburn University, USA)
Nanocrystalline Cellulose, Surface
Modification of Biomaterials
KARATZOS, Sergios
BSc (London), MSc(Wageningen,
Netherlands), PhD (QUT, Brisbane,
Australia)
Biorefining Technologies & Bioenergy Policy
LAH, Ljerka
BSc, PhD (Univ of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Molecular biology of plant-pathogenic fungi
LI, Minghao
BSc, MSc, (Tongji, China ) PhD (Brit Col)
Structural Engineering
MACFARLANE, Alan
BE, PhD (University of Auckland)
Wood Fibre Materials
MAI, Mirjam
Dip (WWWU) Muenster (Germany),PhD
(TU Dresden, Germany)
Hydrolysis and Derivatisation of Cellulose
MALONEY, Victoria
BSc, PhD (Brit Col)
Plant/Tree Physiology, Molecular and
Conservation Biology
NIKOLAKIS, William
BBus (LTU), Graduate Diploma in
Legal Practice (ANU), LLB (CDU), PhD
(University of Southern Australia)
Socially Responsible Investment, Indigenous
Economic Development
OH, Jung Kwon
BSc, MSc, PhD (Seoul National University,
South Korea)
Timber Engineering and Nondestructive
Evaluation
PANAGIOTIDIS, Kosmas
BSc (Athens), MSc, PhD (Liverpool)
Wood Physics
PANAGIOTOPOULOS, Ioannis
BSc, MSc, PhD (National Technical
University of Athens)
Biomass Pretreatment, Biofuels and Wood
Chemistry
PIDDOCKE, Maya
BSc (Sofia Univsity), MSc (MAICh Greece
and DTU, Denmark), PhD (DTU, Denmark)
Fermentation of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks
SELLA KAPU, Nuwan
BSc (Peradeniya, Sri Lanka), MS, PhD
(Penn State)
Lignocellulose to Ethanol/Co-Products
Bioconversion
SKYBA, Oleksandr (Alex)
BSc, MSc (Kyiv Polytechnic Institute,
Ukraine), PhD (Swiss Fed Institute of
Tech, Switzerland)
Genomic Analysis of Wood
WASKO, Stephen
BSc, PhD (California)
Biomolecular Sciences and Engineering
XU, Kuanyong
BSc (Anhui Agricultural University,
China), PhD (Nanjing Agricultural
University, China)
Advanced Biomaterials
XU, Zhi Ming (William)
BEng (Nanjing, China), PhD (W Ontario)
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
ZHANG, Xuelian
BE, MS, (Beijing, China)
Wood Based Composites, Nano Composites
Visiting Scholars
KIM, Ki Seok
Director General, Korean Min of Land,
Transport & Maritime Affairs, S Korea
LEE, Chong Keon,
Director and Senior Secretary to Minister
of Forests, Korean Forest Service, South
Korea
Adjunct Professors
BEATSON, Rodger
(BC Institute of Technology)
BSc, PhD
Pulp and Paper Chemistry
DAI, Chunping
(FPInnovations Forintek)
BSc, MSc, PhD
Wood Composite Products & Processing,
Computer Modeling
GASTON, Chris
BSc, MSc, PhD
Forest Products Marketing
MORRIS, Paul
BSc, PhD
Preservation and Protection
OLIVEIRA, Luiz
BSc, MSc, PhD
Wood Drying
Professors Emeriti
BARRETT, DJ
GARDNER, JA
Dean Emeritus (1985)
KENNEDY, R
Dean Emeritus (1992)
PASZNER, L
Staff
BRAUN, Jennifer
BSc, MSc, PhD (Cincinnati)
Research Scientist
CAMERON, Kirsty
BA (Brit Col)
Administrative Support Clerk
CHANG, Xue Feng Harry
MASc (Brit Col)
Research Scientist
CHIU, Jason
BSc (Brit Col)
Training and Continuing Education
CHUNG, Pablo
BSc, FEng (UNALM), MSc (Brit Col)
Research Scientist
CULLIS, Ian
BSc, MSc (Brit Col)
DREWES, Eric
BSc (Toronto)
Research Assistant Technician
FUNG, Iris
BASc (S Fraser) Dipl (BC Institute of
Technology)
Senior Financial Specialist
GO, Genevieve
BSc (De la Salle, Philippines) MBA
(S Fraser)
Administrator
GUNTHER, Lawrence
Engineering Technician
HANOVA, Jana
BSc (Hons) (Alta), MSc (Brit Col)
Research Scientist – TASK 39 Coordinator
HASTINGS, Diana
BSc (Brit Col)
JOHNSTON, Wendy
Research Group Administrator
Wood Science
Department
KANN, Christine
Administrative Support
LEE, George
BSc (China), MSc (Oregon State)
Wood Engineer Scientist
LEUNG, Vincent
BSc (Brit Col), DipT (BCIT)
Technical Facilities Supervisor
LIM, Lynette
BSc (Brit Col)
LIU, Winfield
BA (Brit Col)
Computer Support Specialist
MACDONALD, Iain
BA (Stirling, Scotland), MSc (Brit Col)
Managing Director, CAWP
MCGUIGAN, Erin
BSc, MSc, PhDC (Brit Col)
Managing Director, FACT Network
PARK, Ji Young
PhD (Seoul Nat, Korea)
Research Scientist
QIN, Wei
BEng (Donghua University, Shanghai), MSc (Brit Col)
Research Scientist
TECSON, Gladys
BSc (Ateneo de Naga University, Philippines )
Project Manager
YAN, Hui Jun
BS (Shandong Inst, China), MAS (Harbin, China)
Research Engineer
YANG, Li
BSc (Northeast Technology, China), MSc (Idaho)
Research Engineer
• The Wood Products Processing program achieved an
enrolment of 114 undergraduates (31 international students)
with a new student intake of 53. Each of these metrics
represents an all-time high, and our hope is to continue to
grow the undergraduate program.
• The co-op program continued as an integral and highly
successful component of the Wood Products Processing
Program with 35 co-op work placements completed.
• The graduate student population continued to grow
moderately. During the year, 76 graduate students were
supervised by department members.
• The Centre for Advanced Wood Processing provided an
increasing range of industry services and training, including
a large number of training workshops and e-learning courses,
and more than 20 capacity-building projects with valueadded manufacturers and First Nations.
• Drs Avramidis, Cohen, Lam, Mansfield and Sowlati received new
NSERC funding. Drs Breuil, Evans, Kadla, Kozak, Lam, Mansfield,
Saddler, Smith and Sowlati received ongoing funding.
• Drs Avramidis, Evans, Lam and Smith continue to receive
research funding from the Natural Resources Canada Valueto-Wood program.
• Dr Evans was keynote speaker at the International Academy
of Wood Science Conference and the Workshop on Materials
and Complexity held in Sweden and Australia, respectively.
• Drs Evans, Smith and Sowlati were nominated for the Killam
Teaching Prize, with Dr Sowlati receiving runner-up honours.
• Dr Kadla continued his role as the Scientific Director for the
NSERC Biomaterials and Chemical Strategic Network, and also
received research funding from AUTO21, Canada’s automotive
R&D program.
• Drs Kadla, Kozak and Mansfield were successful collaborators
on 3 large-scale Genome Canada projects.
• Dr Kozak became Head of the Department in January, 2012
• Dr Kozak received new and ongoing SSHRC funding, and
continued his role as Theme Leader for the NSERC Value Chain
Optimization Strategic Network.
• Dr Saddler continued his role as Co-Director of the NSERC
Bioconversion Network, and continued to receive research
support from Genome BC, the US Department of Energy, and
the International Energy Agency.
• Arash Jamali, a PhD student with Dr Phil Evans, was awarded
the Robert W Stephen’s Memorial Prize at the Annual Meeting
of Canadian Wood Preservation Association for his paper on
“Water Vapor Plasma Processing of Wood”. Wei Xie, a PhD
student in Chemistry with Dr John Ruddick, was given the
Gareth Williams Award at the International Research Group
on Wood Protection for her presentation on “Quantification of
Mobile Copper(II) Levels in Micronized Copper Treated Wood”.
• An external review of the Department was undertaken in
June, 2011. The review was extremely positive, noting it was
“a world class leader” and citing its excellence in research and
teaching.
• We will continue to use the recommendations of the external
review to help guide strategic initiatives that will allow us
to maintain and grow our position as an internationally
renowned academic unit.
• One of the key aims of the Department continues to be
increasing the enrolment levels of our undergraduate
program. Based on feedback from our review, we are exploring
the possibility of creating new undergraduate program
streams to attract more students. We are also continuing with
our 2+2 program, and to date, have 12 students from partner
universities in China.
• In May 2012, Drs Ellis and Kozak will travel to Nanjing Forestry
University in China to teach introductory Wood Science
courses to prospective students.
• We will continue to actively pursue funding opportunities from
diverse sources, including research agencies, governments,
industry, international organizations, and through industry
extension activities.
Centre for Advanced
Wood Processing
Iain Macdonald BA, MSc
Managing Director
604.822.1472
[email protected]
Kirsty Cameron, BA
Administrative Support
Clerk
Jason Chiu, BSc
Specialist, Technical
Linda Dom, BA, MA
Co-op Coordinator and
Recruitment Officer
THE CENTRE FOR ADVANCED WOOD Processing (CAWP) is
Canada’s national centre for education, extension and research
for the advanced wood products industries. The role of CAWP is
to provide support to the BSc (Wood Products Processing) (WPP)
program in the education and training of students with the
capacity to lead and drive change in the industry; offer continuing education and lifelong learning programs aimed at enhancing the skills of existing industry employees; provide technical
services to improve the product quality and manufacturing
efficiency of SMEs; and to coordinate interdisciplinary applied
research. CAWP is funded through an endowment, the CAWP
Industry Partnership Program, various project grants, and cost
recovery on services.
CAWP is supported by a large number of industrial equipment
and technology suppliers, whose in-kind contributions of software,
machinery, supplies, and services significantly enhance our facilities and the training and education experiences that CAWP is able
to offer. A number of manufacturing companies also support CAWP
annually through cash contributions to our industry partnership
program.
CAWP has an internal Management Committee to allow faculty
members in the Department of Wood Science to provide input into
the activities of CAWP, and it is active in monitoring our technical
and educational activities. CAWP also receives guidance from an
external Advisory Board consisting of senior personnel from the
wood products industry across Canada.
Educational Programs
The Wood Products Processing program is the largest degree
program in wood technology/wood science in North America.
In 2011-12 there were 35 co-op work terms completed by our
students. Students worked throughout British Columbia and
also in Alberta and Ontario. 2011-12 represented the first time
for many years that no students worked internationally. The
WPP has seen a slight increase in the number of applications
in 2011-12. As of March 2012 there were 160 applicants to the
program, up by 10 students from last year, which represents a
new high.
A permanent exhibition space, created in 2010 in the classroom adjacent to our High Head Manufacturing Lab, showcases
the many innovative student projects that have been carried
out in collaboration with our academic units, educational institutions and industry. The space currently features the prototype
model of the Winter Olympic medal podium as well as numerous other projects.
Genevieve Go, BSc MBA
Administrator
Winfield Liu, BA
Specialist, Computers
Lawrence Günther
Technician
Vincent Leung, BSc
Supervisor, Technical
Facilities
Continuing Education, Communication
and Extension
CAWP offers 2 UBC Certificate programs to industry professionals – the Industrial Finishing Certificate and the Kiln Drying
Certificate. The Industrial Finishing program attracted its highest
attendance on record in 2012, with learners participating from BC,
Alberta, Ontario, Washington State and as far away as Texas. Our
Kiln Drying Certificate is currently being redesigned as a blended
learning program to facilitate greater industry participation. For
the past 3 years CAWP has also delivered a Management Skills
Certificate program in partnership with the Wood Manufacturing
Council, a national body that represents the skills and training
needs of the secondary wood processing industry. The program
consists of 8 35-hour online course modules that can be taken
by entrepreneurs and management-track employees of wood
manufacturing businesses to acquire key management skills.
The courses attract over 100 learners per year, and an additional
course module on Green Marketing has been commissioned for
development in 2012.
For a third year CAWP delivered an industry product development program in 2011-12, working one-on-one with a dozen
value-added manufacturing companies and two First Nations
bands on 18 separate technical assistance projects. Most of these
were supported with funding provided by Forestry Innovation
Investment as part of CAWP’s role in the Business Innovation
Partnership (BIP), a joint program delivered in cooperation with
BC Wood Specialties Group and FPInnovations to provide business development services to the value added wood products
industry in British Columbia. A further 2 projects were supported
by a provincial value-added wood processing funding program
for First Nations.
The projects included: evaluating engineering values for new
glued LVL beams; prototyping oversized wood windows, chairs,
tables, wooden connector toys, stair treads with stone and tile
inlays, and decorative wall panels; improving product quality
and process efficiency in a mid-size window and door plant; and
creating flooring and wall panel products from recycled shipping pallet material. CAWP also held technical seminars for the
log home and timber frame sector on job costing, timber structure assessment and monitoring, and heavy timber connection
systems. In the coming year CAWP will expand these industryfocused technical support activities and provide additional training opportunities for architects, designers, engineers and building contractors as part of the Province’s new Wood First initiative.
Centre for Advanced
Wood Processing
Research
CAWP’s role under an integrated structure within the
Department of Wood Science is to act as a conduit between
the industry and academic communities in order to ensure that
applied research activities within the department and CAWP
fully reflect industry needs. CAWP is active in helping industry find solutions to current competitive challenges by linking
them with researchers who may be able to provide avenues for
change.
Several faculty members of the Department of Wood
Science continue to receive funding for research projects from
the NRCan-CFS Value-to-Wood program. These projects cover
a wide range of themes, from corporate social responsibility to
advanced finishing and building systems and from forest certification and life cycle analysis to advanced wood composites
development. In 2012 additional projects on weathering resistance, fire resistance and glue strength will be carried out under
the Wood First initiative.
• Increase industry support for CAWP through our industry
partnership program.
• Increase technical support activities delivered to manufacturing companies and industrial designers through the Wood
First initiative.
• Increase awareness and uptake of the WMC Management
Training Certificate Program and deliver and offer a new module on Green Marketing.
• Launch a new introductory-level e-learning course on the forest products value chain.
• Obtain funding for new education and training capacitybuilding projects in West and Francophone Africa.
• Leverage existing curricula and educational technologies to
offer innovative new training programs in response to industry needs.
Centre Associates
Avramidis, Stavros UBC
Barrett, David UBC
Blyt, Christian Emily Carr University
Bramer, Mark Conestoga College
Breuil, Colette UBC
Cohen, David UBC
Dai, Chunping FPInnovations Forintek
Ellis, Simon UBC
Evans, Philip UBC
Hartley, Ian UBC
Kadla, John UBC
Kataoka, Yutaka FFPRI, Tsukuba, Japan
Kiguchi, Makoto FFPRI, Tsukuba, Japan
Köster, Heinz Fachhochschule Rosenheim
Kozak, Robert UBC
Lam, Frank UBC
Mai, Carsten Univ of Göttingen
Mansfield, Shawn UBC
McFarlane, Paul UBC
Meincken, Martina
Stellenbosch Univ, S Africa
Militz, Holger
Univ of Göttingen
Morris, Paul FPInnovations Forintek
Mortimer, John Stellenbosch Univ, S Africa
Romilly, Douglas UBC
Ruddick, John
UBC
Rypstra, Tim Stellenbosch Univ, S Africa
Schajer, Gary UBC
Scholte, David Consultant
Smith, Greg UBC
Sowlati, Taraneh
UBC
Tannert, Thomas
UBC
Yellowly, Ian UBC
Centre for Advanced
Wood Processing
2900-2424 Main Mall
Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4
Phone: 604.822.6448
Fax: 604.822.9159
[email protected]
www.cawp.ubc.ca
Centre for Applied
Conservation Research
Sarah Gergel
BS, PhD
Co–Director
604.827.5163
[email protected]
Peter Arcese
BA, MSc, PhD
Co–Director
604.822.1886
[email protected]
INCREASING DEMAND FOR natural resources and the changing face of climate and land management in British Columbia continue
to challenge conventional ideas about how to maintain healthy forested and non-forested ecosystems in future. Dr Fred Bunnell and
Dean Clark Binkley established the Centre for Applied Conservation Biology to address these challenges in 1991. Our associated faculty,
students and postdoctoral fellows have since built a reputation for excellence in applied research on biodiversity conservation and land
management in Canada and internationally. Our new title, adopted under the leadership of Dr John Innes, encourages the inclusion of
social and economic approaches in applied conservation research. Since 2008, the CACR has continued to draw researchers from across
campus, Canada and internationally to engage in and disseminate applied research, facilitate graduate education, and innovate in the
areas of species, ecosystem and landscape-level conservation planning under the directorship of Peter Arcese and Sarah Gergel.
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2011 – 12
New Faculty: Natural Disturbance Regimes and
Changing Climate
CACR is excited to welcome Dr. Lori Daniels who joins us from
the Department of Geography and brings her expertise in linking fire dynamics and climatic variability using dendrochronology and permanent research plots. Her timely research program
and enthusiasm has helped coalesce new collaborations in natural disturbance and she has helped organize a joint discussion
group with the Insect Ecology (Carroll) and Landscape Ecology
(Gergel) groups.
3rd Annual BC Parks and Recreation Forum
CACR helped secure MITACS funding in collaboration with Dr.
Tory Stevens of BC Parks and in December 2011 hosted two jampacked days of parks and protected areas talks, discussions and
workshops. Hard work by CACR’s graduate student volunteers
as well as a Plenary by Peter Arcese engaged >150 biologists
and academics from five British Columbia universities as well as
regional, provincial and federal governments. Huge thanks to
Conference Chair Tory Stevens, as well as Jessica Miles and Pam
Wright (UNBC) who carried the lion’s share of duties. For paper
and poster abstracts please see www.unbc.ca/bcparf/.
2012 Werner and Hildegaard Hesse Research Awards
Peter Arcese helped secure a bequest of over $1m in support
of research awards for conservation of wild birds at UBC, to be
awarded by CACR and the Biodiversity Research Centre in alternate
years. This year’s award totalled $12,000 and was divided among
3 awardees based on deliberations by CACR post-doctoral and
doctoral candidates. Congratulations to Richard Schuster (Forest
Sciences), Kira Delmore (Zoology) and Paolo Segre (Zoology). The
program is open to all UBC graduate students and is described
in detail at http://hesse-award.sites.olt.ubc.ca/2010/11/18/
werner-and-hildegard-hesse-research-award-in-ornithology/.
Graduate Training in Advanced Landscape Analysis
(FRST 504: Landscape Ecology)
Sarah Gergel spent much of her recent sabbatical revising a co-edited textbook for teaching landscape ecology and
then “beta-tested” these materials in CACR’s graduate course
in Landscape Ecology & Resilience (Fall 2011). This course presented state-of-the art materials addressing network analysis,
aerial photography, conservation planning, and more. Fifteen
enthusiastic and dedicated students from Forestry and units
across campus learned advanced tools and techniques not yet
available in most landscape ecological curricula. More information can be found at: http://landscape.forestry.ubc.ca
Centre for Applied
Research Groups News
Salmon Migration and Fish/Forestry Research
Belowground Ecosystem Group’s Soil Biodiversity
Research
Scott Hinch and colleagues use physiological assays, telemetry and lab experiments to study salmon migration and swim
performance to reveal limitations on ocean and river survival.
Recent and long-term field experiments by this research group
have contrasted south coastal and northern interior stocks to
study the impacts of climate change fish populations and the
influence of recreational fishers on in-river survival. In case you
missed it: see PhD student Erica Eliason’s Quirks & Quarks interview on the future of Fraser River sockeye at www.cbc.ca/quirks/
episode/2011/04/02/april-2-2011/.
Sue Grayston, Cindy Prescott, Suzanne Simard, Chris Chanway
and students continue to demonstrate links between the composition and diversity of soil microbial communities and key processes in carbon and nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems, including fertilizing forests as a means of increasing sequestration of
carbon in soil, recreating a functioning forest soil in reclaimed oil
sands sites in Alberta, and using stable isotope probing to identify keystone species in soil food webs.
Conservation and Development in Africa
Stream and Riparian Research Laboratory
Rob Kozak, Joleen Timko and colleagues continued to develop
AFRICAD to pursue conservation-based approaches addressing
poverty alleviation and local livelihood development in forested
areas of significant biodiversity value in sub-Saharan Africa. Visit
www.africad.ubc.ca for full details.
Climate Change and Biodiversity
Fred Bunnell and colleagues continue work on climate change
and biodiversity issues, and to assist BC Ministries and the forest industry with application of the Provincial Conservation
Framework.
Remote Sensing, Biodiversity and Terrestrial Ecosystem
Mapping
Nicholas Coops continues to lead the application of remote
sensing to forest growth and biodiversity monitoring, including
mapping mountain pine beetle damage and biodiversity using
satellite data. Of recent interest is the integration of hyperspectral remote sensing and LIDAR data to produce a TEM-based
classification of Gulf Islands National Park Reserve in BC, and its
application to predicting species avian richness and mapping of
rare plant communities.
Wildlife Biodiversity in Temperate and Tropical Forests
Kathy Martin and students study wildlife biodiversity in interior mixed forests in British Columbia focusing on the ecological
dynamics of cavity-nesting vertebrate communities in relation
to habitat conditions, forest management and insect outbreaks.
She compares cavity-using vertebrate communities in tropical
and temperate forests, including examining the role of cavity formation, cavity tree persistence and resource pulses on nest web
community dynamics.
The Ecology and Conservation of Alpine and Arctic Birds
Kathy Martin established The Centre for Alpine Studies (www.
forestry.ubc.ca/alpine) to promote research investigating how
animals survive and breed in alpine and arctic habitats that
are currently experiencing climate warming and increasingly
variable conditions. Students conduct research on the behaviour, ecology and genetic structure of birds breeding in alpine
ecosystems.
John Richardson continues to lead collaborators on the ecology and management of riparian-stream ecosystems, including the influence of reserve strips, ecology of invertebrates and
amphibians, and resource limitation in streams. See the details
of recent papers on these topics at http://faculty.forestry.ubc.ca/
richardson/home.html.
Centre for Forest Gene Conservation
Sally Aitken and colleagues at the Centre study the population
and ecological genetic structure of indigenous forest tree species
to assess the current degree of genetic conservation in nature
reserves and collections, and to evaluate genetic diversity in populations of forest trees to meet current and future environmental challenges. The CFGC is also the home of the climate model
ClimateBC now being used by researchers internationally to conduct research on climate change mitigation strategies and conservation planning, and to predict the fate of BC’s native tree populations and ecological zones in a rapidly changing climate. See www.
genetics.forestry.ubc.ca/cfcg/ for their most recent products.
Sustainable Forest Management Research Laboratory
Led by Dean John Innes, this lab pursues interdisciplinary
research on sustainable forest management in human-modified
and natural systems. Projects in Canada, China, India, Peru, Nepal,
Australia and South Africa focus on forest certification, criteria
and indicators, effectiveness monitoring, climate change, cumulative impact assessment, biodiversity and social and cultural
indicators for resource-dependent and First Nation communities.
For full details see http://sustain.forestry.ubc.ca/.
The Genetic Data Centre
Directed by Carol Ritland, the GDC conducts state-of-the art
DNA genotyping and sequencing, including projects on coat
colour and population structure of Kermode bears, killer whales
on the west coast, Alaskan carnivores, western tent caterpillars
and social spiders.
Centre for Applied
3004-2424 Main Mall
Fax: 604.822.5410
www.forestry.ubc.ca/
conservation
University
Research Forests
Bruce Larson
AB, MFS, PhD
Chair, Research Forests
Advisory Committee
604.822.1284
[email protected]
Cheryl Power
BSF, RPF
Resident Forester
Malcolm Knapp
Research Forest
[email protected]
Cathy Koot
BSc, RPBio
Research Coordinator
Alex Fraser Research
Forest
[email protected]
THE FACULTY OF FORESTRY OPERATES three Research Forests: The Malcolm Knapp Research Forest near Maple Ridge on the coast,
the Alex Fraser Research Forest near Williams Lake in the central interior of BC and the Aleza Lake Research Forest, near Prince George
(jointly operated with the University of Northern British Columbia).
The mission of the Research Forests is to support the Faculty of Forestry, other partner universities and research organizations in serving the people of BC through teaching and research. This is accomplished by hosting research from a variety of disciplines in order to
create teaching opportunities for students from UBC, other post-secondary institutions and continuing education programs.
The location of the forests, covering eight diverse biogeoclimatic subzones and 3 tenure systems, offers a variety of research and
education opportunities.
MALCOLM KNAPP FOREST
Paul Lawson
BSF, MBA, RPF
Director, University Research Forests
[email protected]
• Begin fundraising for new Loon Lake Dining Hall.
• Upgrade fire preparedness, suppression and detection
equipment and infrastructure
• Measure 2005 High Density Silviculture experiment and
re-measure 1957 Douglas-fir Provenance Trials
ALEX FRASER FOREST
• Initiated 8 new research projects.
• Employed 3 forestry undergraduate students and 1 forestry
graduate student on 4-month internships.
• Completed a study of forest users and their opinions on
recreational use and restrictions at MKRF.
• Increased timber harvest to 32,695 m3, (up 61% from 2010).
• Hosted Loon Lake facility use to 17,571 overnight stays in
2011 (down 7% from 2010).
• Opened Facebook page for Loon Lake.
• Hosted the Faculty’s Spring Field School in April and
Conservation Field School in October.
• Hosted over 400 children and 300 volunteers at the 8th annual
Canadian Cancer Society Camp Goodtimes held at Loon Lake.
• Milled over 360,000 board feet of lumber at our sawmill facility,
an increase of 3% from 2010.
• Completed silviculture surveys on 175 ha, brushing and deer
protection installation on 43.9 ha, and planting of 14,540
trees on 9.5 ha.
• Completed a feasibility study and costing for installation of
bioenergy heat and power at Loon Lake.
• Maintained full time staff at 4.
PLANS FOR 2012-13
• Increase Loon Lake visitor days by 5%.
• Revise Loon Lake website and employ a sales representative.
• Install natural gas pipeline to Loon Lake and convert facility
from propane to natural gas
• Employ 2 undergraduate and 2 graduate students for 4
month internships.
• Decrease timber harvest levels 12% to 29,000 m3.
• Prepare a Woodlot License Plan for Woodlot 37.
• Complete a carbon management strategy for the Forest.
Ken Day
BScF (Hons), MF, RPF
Manager
[email protected]
• Initiated 4 new research projects.
• Recorded 727 contact days for extension with 645 attendees,
including Fall Field School.
• Provided 11 tours and 7 presentations for researchers,
professionals, students, and the public from British Columbia
and around the world. Presented at an international forestry
conference in China.
• Hired 2 undergraduate and 2 graduate interns for 4 months.
• Continued collaboration with the BC Community Forest
Association to provide extension services and promote
Faculty expertise regarding forest management planning,
forestry administration, data management, timber sales and
wood products manufacturing.
• Re-measured 4 long-term research projects.
• Carried out the final harvest of a replicated uniform
shelterwood experiment established in 1989.
• Carried out silviculture activities including pre-commercial
thinning on 20.6 ha; fill planting 2,400 trees on 2.3 ha; and
silviculture surveys and free growing declaration on 39.4 ha
• Maintained recognition for consulting expertise regarding woody
biomass management for biofuels, as well as urban/wildland
interface fire hazard reduction planning and implementation.
• Continued managing the application process for the Williams
Lake Community Forest in cooperation with the Williams Lake
Indian Band.
• Participated on boards for the Gavin Lake Forest Education
Society, local Invasive Plant Committee, and Southern Interior
Silviculture Committee.
University
Research Forests
PLANS FOR 2012-13
• Celebrate 25 years of forest research and education in the
Cariboo.
• Continue diversifying revenue streams, including sales,
services and funded projects.
• Continue to provide consulting services in fuel reduction
treatments and select projects.
• Employ 2 undergraduate interns in silviculture and harvest
planning.
• Employ 1 graduate intern to develop a commercial thinning
strategy for the 80 year old stands in the southeast portion of
the Gavin Lake Block.
• Host two international interns for two-month work experience
terms.
• Submit application and management plan for Williams Lake
Community Forest.
• Work with the BC Community Forest Association to provide
extension services and linkages to the Faculty of Forestry for
Community Forests.
• Return to large numbers of students for the annual fall field
school.
• Return to full timber harvesting program, including the
overstory removal of partially harvested stands where mountain
pine beetle salvage was carried out a decade ago.
• Plan for harvesting in original mule-deer research blocks, to be
cut in 2014 (30 years after the previous research treatments).
• Promote research opportunities.
ALEZA LAKE FOREST
Michael Jull
BSF, MSc, RPF
Manager
[email protected]
The Aleza Lake Research Forest recognizes the contributions
of Melanie Karjala, long-time ALRF Research and Education
Coordinator from 2003 to 2011. In April, 2011, Melanie accepted
a new opportunity at the Resources North Association in Prince
George. We wish Melanie all the best in her new endeavors.
• Employ 3 undergraduate summer students.
• Undertake stream and fish-habitat restoration project,
supported in part by the Habitat Conservation Trust Fund.
• Install new signage on 7 km of interpretive trails
• Undertake remeasurement on 3 long-term research trials
including 80-year-old growth and yield plots (est. 1920’s), a
spruce shelterwood partial-cutting trial (est. 1995), and a road
and landing rehabilitation trial (est 1996).
• Establish plantation trials of black spruce and tamarack (Larix
laricina) seedling production for greater species options on
colder wetter planting sites
• Complete the ALRF Management Plan revisions and renewal.
Research Forests harvesting 2011
Aleza
Total
0
0
14,015
54.8
37,944
88.8
6,715
24
12,018
121
725
5.8
128,458
150.8
Knapp
Fraser
m
ha
23,929
34
Commercial
3
m
Thinning/
ha
Partial Cutting
Logging
3
Road Rightof-Way
m
3
2,000
0
0
660
2.0
2,660
2.0
Salvage
m3
0
1,061
0
1,061
• Established 5 new research projects, including 2 PhD
projects.
• Hosted 1 undergraduate field forestry summer internship.
• Hosted Fall 2011 field camp and undergraduate field courses.
• Finalized a new 4-year partnership agreement with Dunkley
Lumber Ltd, for ongoing collaboration on log purchasing, and
associated operational management.
• Completed sub-grade construction and improvements
of 1.7 km of new winter-access forest road, and new
bridge installation. Completed road ditching and drainage
improvements on an additional 1.1 km of road.
• Maintained and upgraded 4 km of interpretive trails for
ongoing use by regular field tours and forestry classes.
• In Spring, 2011, planted 105,995 seedlings including spruce,
lodgepole pine, and western redcedar for reforestation of
61 hectares. Completed manual-brushing conifer release
on 32.6 hectares of a 28-year old mixed spruce-aspen stand,
supported by the provincial Land-based Investment Program.
• Harvested 15,400 m3 in the winter 2010/11 harvest season,
including 5% via partial cut systems and 95% via clearcut with
reserves regeneration system.
Malcolm Knapp Research Forest
PO Box 21120
14500 Silver Valley Road
Maple Ridge, BC V2X 1P7
Phone: 604.463.8148
Fax: 604.463.2712
Alex Fraser Research Forest
72 S 7th Avenue
Williams Lake, BC V2G 4N5
Phone: 250.392.2207
Fax: 250.398.570
Aleza Lake Research Forest
3333 University Way
Prince George, BC V2N 4Z9
Phone: 250.960.6674
Offices Awards
and Distinctions
ALONGSIDE THEIR TEACHING and research commitments, most Faculty members have committee responsibilities with off-campus
organizations and groups. These involvements are listed below together with various distinctions and awards (in bold-face type)
bestowed on Faculty members during the past year.
AITKEN, Sally
• Co-Chair, Forest Genetics 2013
Conference (2 IUFRO WG, CFGA, WFGA)
• Associate Editor, Tree Genetics and
Genomes
• Member, Editorial Board, Evolutionary
Applications
• Member, North American Forestry
Commission Forest Genetic Resources
Working Group
• Co-chairperson, Forest Genetics 2013
AVRAMIDIS, Stavros
• Chair, Hellenic Quality Assurance
Agency for Higher Education
COHEN, David
• Chair, Future Forest Leaders Planning
Committee
COOPS, Nicholas
• Canada Research Chair in Remote
Sensing
• Adjunct Professor, Oregon State
University
• Adjunct Professor, Nanjing Forestry
University
• Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Journal of
Remote Sensing
DANIELS, Lori
• Council Member, Tree Ring Society
EL-KASSABY, Yousry
• Professor Honoris Causa, The Czech
University of Life Sciences, Prague
(2011)
• Associate Editor, International Journal
of Forest Research
• Co-Editor-In-Chief, Forestry Sciences
and Practices
• Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of
Forest Research
EVANS, Phil
• Fellowship at University of Gottingen,
Germany
• Ecobuild Professor KTH, Stockholm
• Visiting Fellow, Dept Applied
Mathematics, The Australian National
University
• Member of Editorial Board, Wood
Science and Technology
• Member, Editorial Board, Journal of
Forest Products
International Wood Products
• Board Member, Executive Council
International Research Group on
Wood Protection
• Co-Chair, IRG Working Party 4.5
Coatings & Surface Aspects
• Board Member, Pacific Rim Biobased
Composites Symposium Organizing
Committee
GERGEL, Sarah
• Associate Editor, Landscape Ecology
• Faculty Opponent, PhD Examination
Committee, Umea University
GRAYSTON, Sue
• Canada Research Chair in Soil
Microbial Ecology
Forest Research
GUY, Rob
• Senior Director, Canadian Society of
Plant Physiologists
• Secretary, BC Forest Genetics Society
• IUFRO Division Deputy (Physiology &
Genetics)
• Editor-In-Chief, TREES Structure &
Function
HINCH, Scott
• American Fisheries Society
Excellence in Fisheries Education
Award
INNES, John
• Minjiang Scholarship, Fujian, China
• Associate Editor, Journal of
Environmental Management
• Associate Editor, Environmental
Conservation
• Guest Editor, Forest Ecology and
Management
• Member, Editorial Advisory Board,
Dendrochronologia
International Forestry Review
• Member, Board of Experts,
Committee for Research Evaluation,
Italy
• Member, Commonwealth Forestry
Association - Publications Committee
• Chair, Commonwealth Forestry
Association
• Member, Interdisciplinary Committee,
World Cultural Council
• Member, IUCN/SSC Sustainable Use
Specialist Group
• Member, Board of Trustees,
Commonwealth Forestry Association
• Coordinator, IUFRO Task Force
‘Resources for the Future’
• Member, IUFRO Task Force on
Forestry Education
KADLA, John
• Editor, Journal of Wood Chemistry
and Technology
• Fellow, International Academy of
Wood Science
• Canada Research Chair in Advanced
Biomaterials
• Associate Member, Chemical and
Biological Engineering
• FPInnovations Professorship
• Editor, Journal of Wood Chemistry
and Technology
• Associate Editor, Holzforschung
Wood Science
• Member, ACS Cellulose Renewable
Materials (CELL) Division
• Member, ISWPC Scientific Program
Committee
• Member, Lignotech II Symposium
Scientific Committee
• Member, Organizing Committee,
TAPPI International Conference on
Nanotechnology
• Member, Organizing Committee, ACS
Nanofibre Symposium
• Member, FIBRE – Council of NSERC
Network Directors
KOZAK, Rob
• Winner, Top Teacher Award
(Department of Wood Science, UBC)
• Fellow, Institute of Wood Science
Forest Research
• Associate Editor, Journal of Forest
Products Business Research
• Deputy Coordinator, International
Union of Forest Research
Orgnanizations, Working Group
5.10.100
• Member, UN Economic Commission
for Europe, Team of Specialists on
Forest Products Marketing
KRZIC, Maja
• CNIE Award of Excellence in the
Innovation in Web Design category
awarded by the Canadian Network for
Innovation in Education
• Member, Organizing Committee for
Canadian Society of Soil Science and
American Society of Soil Science
Offices Awards
and Distinctions
LEMAY, Valerie
• Associate Editor, Forestry Chronicle
• Deputy co-ordinator, IUFRO 4.01.03
(Experiments)
• External reviewer, U Melbourne
LYONS, Kevins
• Member, Editorial Board,
International Journal of Forest
Engineering
MANSFIELD, Shawn
• Associate Editor, Biotechnology for
Biofuels
• International Advisor, Current
Biotechnology
• International Advisor, Frontiers in
Plant Biotechnology
• International Advisor, Frontiers in
Plant Development
• Associate Editor, BioEnergy Research
• International Advisor. Holzforschung
MARTIN, Kathy
• Chair, 5th North American
Ornithological Conference
• Member (representative for Canada),
International Ornithological
Committee
• Member, 2014 Scientific Program
Committee, International
Ornithologist’s Union
• Member, Council of Canadian Society
of Ecology and Evolution
• Associate Editor, Avian Conservation
and Ecology
• Associate Editor, Frontiers in Ecology
and The Environment
• Associate Editor, Studies in Avian
Biology
McFARLANE, Paul
• Member, Editorial Board, APPITA
• Member, Editorial Board, NZ Journal
of Forestry Science
• Member, Japan Prize Nominating
Committee, The Science and
Technology Foundation of Japan
• Member, Bioproducts and Bioenergy
Advisory Committee, BC Innovation
Council
• International Member, Review
Committee for NZ Forest Owners
Association Science & Innovation
Plan
• International Reviewer, Review
of the Intensive Forestry Systems
program, Future Forests Research,
NZ
• International Member, New Zealand
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Greenhouse Gas Footprinting
MITCHELL, Stephen
• Editor, Forestry: an International
Journal of Forest Research
• Coordinator, IUFRO Unit 8.03.06.,
Wind and Trees
• Killam Teaching Award Nominee
MOORE, Dan
• Chair, Canadian National Committee
for the International Association of
Hydrological Sciences
• Senior Representive for Canada,
International Association of
Hydrological Sciences
• Associate Editor, Canadian Water
Resources Journal
• Member, North American Stream
Hydrographers
• Member, Organizing committee,
Putting PUB into Practice,
International Association of
Hydrological Science
PRESCOTT, Cindy
• Associate Editor, Ecosystems
• Deputy Editor in Chief, Canadian
Science Publishing
• Member, Society of Wood Science
and Technology Education
Committee
SOWLATI, Taraneh
• President, Canadian Operational
Research Society Vancouver Chapter
• Member, Canadian Operational
Research Society
• Member, MITACS – College of
Reviewers
• Senior Member, Institute of Industrial
Engineers
• Membership Committee Chair,
Canadian Operational Research
Society Council
• Member, Institute of Operations
Research and Management Sciences
• Member, Association of Professional
Engineers and Geoscientists in British
Columbia
• UBC Killam Teaching Prize Faculty of
Forestry Nominee: Runner Up
RICHARDSON John S
• Associate Editor, Journal of Applied
Ecology
Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
RITLAND, Kermit
• Associate Editor, Heredity
• Associate Editor, AoB Plants
SHEPPARD, Stephen
• Member, Real Estate Institute of BC,
Climate Change Committee
Landscape Journal
• Fellow, Institute for Social
Sustainability Research, University of
Plymouth
• Theme Leader/Chair, Social
Mobilization Research Subcommittee,
PICS
SIMARD, Suzanne
• Chair, Southern Interior Silviculture
Committee
• Chair, TerreWEB Executive Comittee
• Member, Editorial Board, Forest
Ecology & Management
• Associate Editor, PLOS One
SMITH, Greg
• Nominated for Killam Teaching Award
in Forestry March 2012
• Member, ASTM International Technical
Committees D1430 and D0703
Extramural Funding &
Sponsored Research
Cindy E Prescott
Associate Dean
Graduate Studies and Research
604.822.4701
[email protected]
BETWEEN APRIL 1, 2011 and March 31, 2012 members of
our faculty were awarded a total of $12.59 million in research
funding. This represents an increase of 15.3% over the previous
year, but still below our peak funding level of $13.49 million in
2008/09.
Federal funding was down by 22.1% but still represented
48.6% of our total funds received. Tri-Council (NSERC and
SSHRC) award amounts were down 10%, which is attributable to the reduction in support for the Strategic Grants program in 2011/12. Members of the faculty held 30 Discovery
grants, 16 ongoing NSERC Strategic grants, 3 Collaborative
Research grants, 2 Engage grants, 2 Insight Development
grants, 1 Industrial Research Chair, 1 Partnership Workshop
grant, 1 Promoscience grant and 4 SSHRC grants for a total TriCouncil funding of $3.4 million. Natural Resources Canada and
Environment Canada contributed a combined total of $793,706
in support of 9 research projects. The Network of Centres
for Excellence provided $356,724 (through MITACS, GEOIDE,
GRAND and AUTO21) in support of 10 research projects. This
represented a 38.4% increase in support over the previous
year. Canada Research Chair awards (Coops, Grayston, Kadla,
Mansfield) contributed another $333,333.
The steep decline in provincial funding during the previous
2 years was arrested – increasing by 83.5% in 2011/12. Overall
provincial funding was $5.58 million, up from $3.04 million
in the previous year. Much of the increase in provincial funding reflected the success of our faculty members in securing
funding for genomics research, although all provincial sources
increased relative to 2010/11 levels. Over 65% of our provincial
funding was in the form of research awards through Genome
BC (13 projects totaling $3.63 million), while Genome Quebec
provided an additional $504,966 in support of 2 research projects. The British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Range and Natural
Resource Operations, either directly or through the Future
Forest Ecosystems Scientific Council, supported 10 projects for
a total of $499,867, an increase of 15.5% over funds received in
2010/11, but still well below historic levels. Forestry Innovation
Investment funds supported 2 projects for a total of $347,950,
an increase of 47% over funds received in 2010/11. Provincial
funding represented 25.7% of our total research funding, still
well below contributions of 40-50% that were common before
2010.
Private funding support for research contributed $938,014
through 38 projects. The largest industry supporters were
Alberta Pacific Forest Industries Ltd who funded one project
(Kadla) and BC Oil and Gas Commission who funded one project (Harshaw). Overall, private funding for research was down
by 27.1% over the previous year.
Extramural funding sources 2011 – 12*
Source
($) Count %
Federal
Tri-Council
Natural Resources Canada
Network of Centres for Excellence
Canada Research Chairs
Environment Canada
CFI
Subtotal
3,355,094
626,206
356,724
333,333
167,500
45,004
4,883,861
61
6
10
4
3
3
87
34.1
3.4
5.6
2.2
1.7
1.7
48.6
3,632,377
504,966
499,867
347,950
293,750
137,000
57,700
106,166
5,579,776
13
2
10
4
8
1
1
7
46
7.3
1.1
5.6
2.2
4.5
0.6
0.6
3.9
25.7
719,462
218,552
938,014
22
16
38
12.3
8.9
21.2
1,188,412
8
4.5
12,590,063
179
100.0
Provincial
Genome BC
Genome Quebec
BC Ministry of Forests & Range
Forestry Innovation Investment
PICS
Forest Genetics Council
BC Innovation Council
Other
Subtotal
Private
Industry
Other
Subtotal
International
Total
* Excluding endowments.
International funds in support of research were up by
267.3% for a total of $1.19 million backing 8 projects (up from 4
projects and $323,545 in the previous year).
We also received endowment income of $1.08 million (down
by 2.7% from the previous year). This funding is provided by
endowments originally set up by Forest Renewal BC, as well as
from private sectors.
Sponsored Research
($000)
14,000
Extramural
Funding
$12,590,063
12,000
10,000
8,000
01/02
02/03
03/04
04/05
05/06
06/07
07/08
08/09
09/10
10/11
11/12
Extramural funding 2001/02 – 2011/12
($000)
7,000
6,000
Provincial
$5,579,776
5,000
Federal
$4,883,861
4,000
3,000
2,000
Private
$938,014
1,000
01/02
02/03
03/04
04/05
05/06
06/07
07/08
08/09
09/10
10/11
11/12
Extramural funding trends 2001/02 – 2011/12
OUTCOMES
In the past year faculty members authored 195 articles in 124
peer-reviewed journals. Our faculty members also served the scientific community through voluntary peer review, reviewing 866
journal articles for publication during the year. Coops, El-Kassaby,
Guy, Kadla, and Mitchell served as senior editors for 5 international
peer-reviewed journals (Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing,
Forests and Genetically Modified Trees, TREES – Structure and
Function, Journal of Wood Chemistry and Technology and Forestry:
An International Journal of Forest Research). One faculty member (Prescott) served as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Canadian
Science Publishing. As well, 14 faculty members served as associate editors of 20 different journals and 6 individuals served on editorial boards of 10 journals across the spectrum of forest-related
journals. Faculty members also reviewed about 400 research grant
proposals for over 30 research funding agencies around the world,
including US, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Chile, Mexico, South
Africa, New Zealand, UK, Switzerland Greece, Netherlands, Italy,
Portugal, Czech Republic, Israel, Norway, France and Canada.
In addition to BC and Canada, faculty members, graduate
students and postdoctoral fellows in the Faculty of Forestry were
conducting research in Ethiopia, Chile, Kenya, Peru, India, China,
UK, USA, Panama, Philippines, Brazil, Sweden, Argentina, Portugal,
S Africa, Australia, Malawi, Ethiopia, The Gambia, Cameroon,
Mexico, Ghana, Tasmania, Costa Rica, Madagascar, Indonesia,
Congo Basin, Nicaragua, Nepal, Mozambique, Namibia, France,
Taiwan, Zimbabwe, Botswana and the Czech Republic.
Faculty members made presentations at 78 scientific conferences outside Canada including (USA, Italy, Finland, China,
Austria, Czech Republic, France, Japan, Brazil, Argentina, South
Africa, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, India, Korea, Chile,
Denmark, Estonia and the UK. One hundred and twenty six talks
were given to professional groups within Canada.
During the past year 22 faculty members welcomed 34 visiting researchers from 14 countries. Twenty faculty members
hosted a total of 43 post-doctoral fellows from 19 countries.
During the past year, researchers in the Faculty of Forestry
were cited 57 times in the media. These research stories included
such diverse topics as visualization of climate change scenarios,
forest exports to China, inter-plant communication, cavity nester
needs for old trees, wood biofuel as a competitor to corn, and
effects of water warming on spawning of Pacific salmon.
Sponsored Research
The following list reflects research funding obtained between April 1, 2011 and March 31, 2012.
AITKEN, Sally
• Proposal to establish a Centre for Forest Gene Conservation at
the University of British Columbia (BCMoF, L&NRO $150,000)
• Predicting the capacity of conifer populations to adapt to
new climates using ecologically relevant genetic markers
(NSERC $44,000)
• Climate response of western redcedar and western larch
seed sources using controlled climate chambers (BCMoF, L
&NRO $10,908)
• Development of a climate-based seed transfer system for
changing climates (BCMoF, L&NRO $44,076)
• Adaptree: Assessing the adaptive portfolio of reforestation
stocks for future climates (Genome BC $1,018,821)
• Assessing the adaptive portfolio of reforestation stocks
for future climate: common garden experiments (BCMoF,
L&NRO $34,812)
• Genomics-enhanced forecasting tools to secure Canada’s
near-term lignocellulosic feedstock supply for bioenergy
using the mountain pine Beetle – Pinus spp System
(co-investigator) (Genome BC, $1,480,127)
• Climate change adaptation planning for Northwest Skeena
communities (co-investigator) (MITACS/NCE $12,689)
• Adaptation of harvested wood products from climate
action regions (co-investigator) (MITACS/NCE $15,000)
• Development of carbon storage and emission flow diagram
for harvested wood (co-investigator) (MITACS/NCE $15,000)
• Analysis of the potential for carbon offsets in NA tribal lands
(co-investigator) (MITACS/NCE $30,000)
• Strategic network grant on value chain optimization
(co-investigator) (NSERC $150,416)
• Scenario planning tools for forest industry markets and
trade (NSERC $34,583)
ARCESE, Peter
CARROLL, Allan
• Phenotypic, genetic and demographic responses to
environmental variation and inbreeding in the song sparrow
(NSERC $101,000)
• Diagnosing causes of decline and re-distribution of western
grebes (Environment Canada $20,000)
• Awards for graduate student research in ornithology (UBC
Hesse Research Award in Ornithology $12,000)
AVRAMIDIS, Stavros
• Synergistic wood drying modeling based on multiple-scale
anatomical and physical attributes (NSERC $25,000)
• Reducing colour variation of woods used for furniture and
cabinets (NRC $85,038)
• Assessment and optimization of radio frequency teating
technology as treament to protect Canadia green log and
timber exprots by killing microbes and other pests (NSERC
$132,000)
BOHLMANN, Joerg C
using the mountain pine beetle – Pinus spp system
(co-investigator) (Genome BC $587,039)
• Smartforest: Spruce marker technologies for sustainable forest
(Genome BC, Genome Quebec $887,793)
BREUIL, Colette
using the mountain pine Beetle – Pinus spp System
(co-investigator) (Genome BC $1,480,127)
• Exploring how the mountain pine beetle fungal associate
Ophiostoma clavigerum overcomes lodgepole pine defenses
(NSERC $30,000)
BULL, Gary
• Development of carbon storage and emission flow diagram
for harvested wood products within British Columbia
(MITACS/NCE/NCE, Province of British Columbia, Carbon
Credit Corp $10,500)
• The mountain pine beetle in novel pine forests: Predicting
impacts in a warming environment (Foothills Research
Institute $30,000)
• Predicting forest insect disturbance under climate change
($150,000 BCMoF, L&NRO)
CHANWAY, Chris
• Nitrogen balance in pine forests: comparing the efficacy
of nitrogen fixing endophytes above and below ground
(NSERC $15,000)
COHEN, David
• Strategic network grant on value chain optimization (NSERC
$5,368)
• Future changes to value chain due to business innovation
(NSERC $55,025)
COOPS, Nicholas
• Canada Research Chair in Remote sensing (CRC $100,000)
• Image analysis to support grizzly bear mountain /pine
beetle research (Foothills Research Institute $90,000)
• Detection of vegetation canopy stress dynamics using
integrated near-ground and airborne remote sensing data
over coastal and boreal forests (NSERC $31,500)
• Development of BC-wide biodiversity indicators using earth
observation data (BCIC $57,700)
• Remote sensing of forest functioning and structure (CFI
$31,638)
• Global remote sensing survey (United Nations $81,000)
• Developing environmental-response functions of growth
and mortality to forecast forest carbon stocks in British
Columbia under environmental change scenarios (PICS
$50,000)
• Assessment of the natural range of variation of Alberta’s
forested landscapes using forest inventory and remote
sensing information (NSERC $24,821)
• Utilizing digital remote sensing imagery to augment land
cover change, disturbance and productivity assessments on
First Nations forested land (NSERC $24,980)
• Geomatics solutions for conservation of Canada’s boreal forests
(GEOIDE/NCE, Nature Conservancy of Canada $51,250)
Sponsored Research
• Linking long term AVHRR satellite-derived indicators of
biodiversity to species distributions and movements (NRC
$20,000)
• Developing forest inventory datasets of tree growth,
mortality and climate to forecast forest carbon stock
dynamics in BC (NRC $20,000)
• Tsitika summit landslide features and Russell Creek
experimental watershed (BCMoF, L&NRO $8,500)
• Workshop on the development of a strategic plan for
assessment of wood fibre attributes using remote sensing
(NSERC $24,905)
DANIELS, Lori
• Examination of yellow-cedar decline mortality using
dendrochronology pilot project (BCMoF, L&NRO $47,400)
• Fire regimes in mountain landscapes and global
environmental change: Top-down versus bottom-up
(NSERC $24,000)
• Climate and the decline of yellow-cedar along the north
coast of British Columbia (PICS $47,500)
EL-KASSABY, Yousry
• Industrial Research Chair in Applied Forest Genetics and
Biotechnology (Forest Genetics Council of BC, NSERC,
Johnson’s Family Forest Biotechnology Fund, industry,
$364,000)
• Applied forest genetics and biotechnology (Forest
Genetics Council of BC $137,000)
• Molecular breeding using forest trees as a model (NSERC
$39,000)
• Popcan: Genetic improvement of poplar trees as a Canadian
bioenergy feedstock (co-investigator) (Genome BC
$1,471,596)
• Development of integrated forest management and wood
manufacturing decision-support systems for a value-added
forest industry: Mapping wood density variation in white
spruce stems for use in sawing models (NSERC $25,000)
EVANS, Phil
• Wavelength dependent photodegradation of wood (NSERC
$30,030)
• Plasma treatment to improve the surface finishing
characteristics of boreal wood species (NSERC $2,792)
• Integrated approach to creating durable clear finishes for
wood (NSERC $79,000)
• Optimizing the atomization of adhesives and coatings for
manufacture of composites, cabinets and furniture (NRC
$65,555)
GERGEL, Sarah
• Multi-scale assessment of river-floodplains (NSERC $17,500)
• Operationalizing resilience over the long-term: learning
from ecosystem baselines (PICS $20,000)
GRAYSTON, Sue
• Canada Research Chair in Soil Microbial Ecology (CRC
$100,000)
• Microbial diversity and function in forest soils and the
influence of rhizosphere carbon flow (NSERC $71,000)
• Stable isotope and molecular biology laboratory for the
identification and development of indicators of forest
sustainability (CFI $13,366)
• Carbon and nitrogen fluxes in reconstructed oil sands soils
(co-investigator) (NSERC $59,625)
• Biodiversity as influenced by forestry practices: An enriched
virtual educational experience (co-investigator) (UBC TLEF
$42,918)
GUY, Rob
• Comparative physiology of plant adaptation; resource
acquisition and constraints of growing season length
in balsam poplar from temperate, boreal and arctic
environments (NSERC $82,000)
• Community fire interface biomass utilization for heating fuel
(PICS $50,000)
• Optimized Populus feedstocks and novel enzyme systems
for a British Columbian bioenergy sector (co-investigator)
(Genome BC $76,566)
$1,471,596)
HAMELIN, Richard
• Risk assessment of Septoria musiva (BCMoF, L&NRO
$31,500)
• Elucidation of rust life-cycle using molecular approaches
(NSERC $20,000)
• Genomics-based forest health diagnostics and monitoring
(Genome BC $959,702)
• Fungal assays of paper birch (BCMoF, L&NRO $8,921)
using the mountain pine beetle – Pinus spp System
(co-investigator) (Genome BC, $1,480,127)
HARSHAW, Howard
• Social attitudes toward hydrocarbon development in British
Columbia (BC Oil and Gas Commission $122,955)
• Role of social networks and recreation specialization
in understanding rock climbers attitudes towards the
environment (SSHRC $16,500)
HAMELIN, Richard
$1,471,596)
HINCH, Scott
• Increasing the sustainability of multi-sector pacific salmon
fisheries in coastal rivers of British Columbia by quantifying
and reducing mortality of released fish (co-investigator)
(NSERC $118,350)
• Understanding species movements, interactions, and
environmental variability across Canada’s three oceans
(NSERC $246,500)
• Behavioural physiology and fitness of anadromous migrating
fish (NSERC $40,000)
INNES, John
• Impacts of forestry property markets on the livelihoods of
local people in China (SSHRC $41,860)
• Adaptation of Asia-Pacific forests to climate change (AsiaPacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management and
Rehabilitation $380,702)
Sponsored Research
• Securing safe passage in a warming arctic: sustainable
development of commercial shipping along the northwest
passage (UBC Northern Scientific Training Program $3,200)
• Assessing attitudes of architects and builders towards forest
certification in British Columbia (BC Ministry of Small
Business, Technology and Economic Development,
MITACS/NCE, Coast EcoTimber Inc $15,000)
KADLA, John
• Canada Research Chair in Advanced Biomaterials (CRC
$100,000)
• SENTINEL research network - Nanoscale fibrous structures
through electrospinning of novel cellulosic systems (NSERC,
industry $51,300)
• Advanced materials from natural polymers (NSERC $36,000)
• Renewable, recyclable and lightweight structural prototype
greener auto parts (The Automobile of the 21st Century
(AUTO21)/NCE $17,250)
• Lignin-based advanced materials as part of a pulp and paper
biorefinery (NSERC $130,500)
• Biomaterials and Chemicals NSERC Research Network
Agreement (NSERC, industry $485,000)
• Harnessing microbial diversity for sustainable use of forest
biomass resources (co-investigator) (Genome BC $2,022,932)
• Performance of massiv-holz-mauer-cross laminated timber
panels with aluminum nailing (NSERC $25,000)
• New Builds (co-investigator) (NSERC $1,060,000)
• Performance of glulam columns (NRC $63,250)
• Sustainable building science program (co-investigator)
(NSERC $300,000)
LARSON, Bruce
• Promotion and coordination of research under Adaptation and
Impacts Research Division (Environment Canada $80,000)
• A climate change strategy for red alder in British Columbia
(FFESC $91,173)
• Forest fertilization trial in a Mildred Lake jack pine stand
(Syncrude $110,131)
LYONS, Kevin
• Can attributes identified at the harvest planning stage be used
to predict the frequency of close calls and severe injuries when
manually falling trees? (WorkSafe BC $56,916)
MACDONALD, Iain
• Business Innovation Partnership (FII Ltd $90,000)
MANSFIELD, Shawn
• Soil: charting new territory in high school education (NSERC
$15,000)
• Canada Research Chair in Wood & Fibre Quality (CRC $33,333)
• From source to sink – carbon allocation in poplar (NSERC
$30,000)
• Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Centre (US Department of
Energy $152,433)
• For ValueNet – Development of integrated forest management
and wood manufacturing decision-support systems for
a value-added forest industry (co-investigator)(NSERC
$174,768)
• Optimized Populus feedstocks and novel enzyme systems
for a British Columbian bioenergy sector (co-investigator)
(Genome BC $76,566)
$1,471,596)
• Working on Walls (WOW) (co-investigator) (NSERC $300,000)
LAM, Frank
MARTIN, Kathy
KOZAK, Robert
• Assessing the enabling conditions and constraints facing
alternative business models on publicly held forestlands: case
studies in Canada and central west Africa (SSHRC $43,400)
• Adaptree: Assessing the adaptive portfolio of reforestation
stocks for future climates (co-investigator) (Genome BC
$123,403)
• Rethinking sustainable supply chains: A case study of paper
and digital media (NSERC $22,720)
• Workshop organization: Life cycle analysis and sustainablility
(NSERC $10,000)
KRZIC, Maja
• Reliability of timber structural system under seismic loading
(NSERC $35,000)
• Performance of OSB, Rimboard, and OSL (Ainsworth
Engineered Canada LP $21,000)
• Market survey for SHERPA timber connectors for United
States and Canada (Vinzenz Harrer GmbH $9,187)
• Moment resisting self-tapping screw assembly under
monotonic and reverse cyclic load (British Columbia
Ministry of Small Business, Technology and Economic
Development,MITACS/NCE, Chiu Hippmann Engineering
Inc Consulting Structural Engineers $30,000)
• Size Effects in Glulam Beams (FII Ltd $76,450)
• Seismic performance of mid-rise timber structures – collapse
prevention (FII Ltd $58,300)
• Influence of manufacturing parameters and boundary
conditions on cross laminated timber fire resistance (FII Ltd
$123,200)
• Performance of SWG ASSY self tapping wood screws (SWG
Schraubenwerk Gaisbach GmbH $138,900)
• Alpine and forest landbird ecology and conservation
research (Environment Canada $67,500)
• Ecology and life history of alpine birds (NSERC $54,000)
• Northern alpine avian ecology and climate variation (NSERC
$15,000)
• Individual variation in breeding ecology of alpine breeding
horned larks (UBC Northern Scientific Training Program
$4,600)
McFARLANE, Paul
• Estimating carbon storage and emissions from harvested
wood products from British Columbia (PICS $50,000)
MEITNER, Michael
• Integrated modelling and assessment of forest harvest
patterns (NSERC $24,000)
• Where do we want to go? have we arrived? improving
transparency, rigour and knowledge in complex multistakeholder planning contexts (MITACS/NCE, Province of
British Columbia, EcoPlan International $30,000)
Sponsored Research
• Managing visual resources in visually sensitive regions within
TFL 52 (NSERC $25,000)
MITCHELL, Stephen
• Drag and resistance in mangroves (NSERC $22,910)
• Cultivating forest stewardship (UBC TLEF $46,870)
• Root anchorage mechanics (TreeFund $10,000)
NELSON, Harry
• Preparing for changes in hydrological cycles and surface
hydrology in BC (NRC $105,300)
• Bioenergy demonstration at UBC Loon Lake Research and
Education Centre (British Columbia Ministry of Small
Business, Technology and Economic Development,
MITACS/NCE, BC Bioenergy Network Association, GreenErg Technologies Ltd $15,000)
• Are all the pieces of the puzzle there? Payment for ecosystem
services for first nations in British Columbia (SSHRC $34,500)
• Climate change: assessing the adaptive capacity of community
forests (UBC Peter Wall Solutions Initiative $15,000)
NELSON, John
• Optimal facility location and supply chain design for the
BC coastal sector using agent-based integrated production
modelling (NSERC $22,720)
• Integrated model for operational decision support in the
forest and sawmilling supply chain with focus on log quality
and lumber recovery (NSERC $5,368)
PRESCOTT, Cindy
• Nutrient availability and late-stage decomposition (NSERC
$42,000)
• Compilation of literature and data on the impacts of
intensive biomass harvesting on soil and site productivity
(NRC $20,000)
RICHARDSON, John
• Resource heterogeneity and the environmental basis of
productivity in flowing waters (NSERC $19,700)
• Determining critical instream flow needs for Nooksack dace
(Canadian Wildlife Federation, BC MoE $25,800)
• Assessing the potential aquatic habitat value of streams
responding to a changing climate (PICS $20,750)
• Species at Risk Network (SARNET) development – pilot
project) (BCMoF, L&NRO $13,750)
• Identification of critical habitat for great basin spadefoot
toads (Spea intermontana) within the southern interior of
British Columbia (Canadian Wildlife Federation $22,000)
• Large-scale drivers of ecosystem pertubation and field tests
of their effects on freshwater systems (CFI $75,821)
RITLAND, Kermit
• Population genomics of plants (NSERC $54,000)
• Canadian pollination initiative (CANPOLIN) (co-investigator)
(NSERC $70,900)
• Smartforest: spruce marker technologies for sustainable
forest (co-investigator)(Genome BC, Genome Quebec
$887,793)
RUDDICK, John
• Wood preservation (Timber Specialties Co $29,669)
SADDLER, Jack
• For ValueNet-Development of integrated forest management
and wood manufacturing decision-support systems for a
value-added forest industry (NSERC $130,268)
• Elucidating the substrate and enzyme factors that control the
hydrolysis of lignocellulose (NSERC $28,870)
• Conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to biofuels and
chemicals (NSERC $231,567)
• Future Forest Ecosystems Scientific Council Projects (BCMoF,
L&NRO $150,000)
• IEA Bioconversion Task (International Energy Agency (US)
$314,214)
SHEPPARD, Stephen
• Local climate change visioning tools and process for
community decision-making (GEOIDE/NCE $169,724)
• Delta flood planning and visioning, regional adaptation
collaborative (NRC $97,750)
• PICS Climate change course modules II and III (Impacts &
Adaptation) (PICS $10,000))
• PICS postdoctoral fellowship: Olaf Schroth (PICS $50,000)
• Visualizing urban futures: Geomatics decision support for
community energy in Canadian urban regions (GEOIDE/NCE,
Neptis Foundation) $65,000)
• District energy options visualization research proposal
(British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority $22,000)
• Greenest City Conversations - Community Energy Workshops
(MITACS/NCE, BCHydro $50,000)
SIMARD, Suzanne
• The role of mycorrhizae and mycorrhizal networks in tree
species range shifts with climate change and disturbance
(NSERC $50,000)
• TerreWEB: Terrestrial research on ecosystems & world-wide
education & broadcast (NSERC $150,000)
• Carbon cycling by forest soil microbial communities in a time
of climate change (co-investigator) (NSERC $196,680)
SMITH, Gregory
• Development of discrete element models for continuous
rotary drum drying and blending for OSB (NSERC $20,000)
• Resin blending and modeling (National Science
Foundation (US) $51,975)
• Evaluation of short properties of a new hybrid PSP panel
made from particles and strands (NRC $76,000)
• Determination and prediction of lightweight hollow core
panel under long term static loading and high cyclic
humidity conditions (NRC $76,475)
SOWLATI, Taraneh
• Optimization of forest biomass supply chain – incorporating
uncertainties (NSERC $24,000)
• CRA: Value chain optimization at Capital Power (Capital
Power Corp $5,157)
• Evaluating potential partnership in forest products value
chain (NSERC $22,720)
TANNERT, Thomas
• Sustainable disaster relief housing (UBC Martha Piper
Research Fund $23,000)
Faculty Publications
THIS LIST INCLUDES documents published between April 1, 2011 and March 31, 2012. Names appearing in bold-face type are
those of UBC Forestry Faculty members. For further information on any of these publications (many of which are available in libraries
or online), please contact the appropriate Faculty member directly.
Abubakari A, Avramidis S, Oliveira L. 2012. Impact of radio
frequency heating pre-treatment on the kiln drying
characteristics of sub-alpine fir. J Wood Wood Prod
70:245-251.
Aitken K, Martin K. 2012. Experimental test of nest-site limitation
in mature mixed forests of central British Columbia, Canada. J
Wildlife Manage 76:557-565, doi:10.1002/jwmg.286.
Ambus L, Hoberg G. 2011. The evolution of devolution: A critical
analysis of the Community Forest Agreement in British
Columbia. Soc Natur Resour 24(9):933-950.
Amoroso MM, Daniels LD, Larson BC. 2012. Radial growth
decline in Austrocedrus chilensis forests in northern Patagonia.
For Ecol Manage 265:62-70.
Amoroso MM, Daniels LD, Bataineh M, Andison DW. 2011.
Evidence of mixed severity fire in the foothills of the Rocky
Mountains of west-central Alberta, Canada. For Ecol Manage
262:2240-2249.
Bendickson D. 2011. High stakes: Taking responsibility for
our resource roads. BC Forest Professional July/August
2011:14-15.
Bingham MA, Simard SW. 2012. Mycorrhizal networks affect
ectomycorrhizal fungal community similarity between
conspecific trees and seedlings Mycorrhiza, doi:10.1007/
s00572-011-0406-y.
Bingham MA, Simard SW. 2012. Ectomycorrhizal networks
of old Pseudotsuga menziesii var. glauca trees facilitate
establishment of conspecific seedlings under drought.
Ecosystems 15:188-199.
Bingham MA, Simard SW. 2011. Do mycorrhizal network
benefits to survival and growth of interior Douglas-fir
seedlings increase with soil moisture stress? Ecol Evol
3(1):306-316.
Andrew ME, Wulder MA, Coops NC. 2011. Patterns of protection
and threats along productivity gradients in Canada. Biol
Conserv 144:2891-2901, doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2011.08.006.
Bizikova L, Burch S, Robinson J, Shaw A, Sheppard S. 2011.
Utilizing participatory scenario-based approaches to
design proactive responses to climate change in the face
of uncertainties. Pp 171-190 in Gramelsberger G, Feichter
J (eds) Climate Change and Policy, Springer-Verlag, Berlin
Heidelberg, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-17700-2_8.
Andrew ME, Wulder MA, Coops NC. 2012. De facto protected
areas of the Canadian boreal forest. Biol Conserv 146:97-107.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2011.11.029.
Bleiker KP, Carroll AL. 2011. Rating introgression between
lodgepole and jack pine at the individual tree level using
morphological traits. N J Appl Forestry 28:138-145.
Andrew ME, Wulder MA, Coops NC. 2011. How do butterflies
define ecosystems? A comparison of ecological
regionalization schemes. Biol Conserv 144:1409-1418.
Boone CK, Aukema BH, Bohlmann J, Carroll AL, Raffa KF. 2011.
Efficacy of tree defense physiology varies with bark beetle
population density: a basis for positive feedback in eruptive
species. Can J For Res 41:1-15.
Andrew ME, Wulder MA, Coops NC, Baillargeon G.
2011. Beta diversity gradients of butterflies along
productivity axes. Glob Ecol Biogeo 21:352-364,
doi:10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00676.x.
Atwood T, Richardson JS. 2012. Trophic interactions between
insects and stream-associated amphibians in steep, cobblebottom streams of the Pacific coast of North America. Insects
3:432-441.
Bal A, Anand R, Berge O, Chanway CP. 2012. Isolation and
identification of diazotrophic bacteria from internal tissues of
Pinus contorta and Thuja plicata. Can J For Res 42:807-813.
Bater CW, Coops NC, Wulder MA, Nielsen S, Hilker T, McDermid
Stenhouse G. 2011. Using digital time-lapse cameras to
monitor species-specific understorey and overstorey
phenology in support of wildlife habitat assessment. Environ
Monit Assess 180:1-13, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/
s10661-010-1768-x.
Bater CW, Wulder MA, Coops NC, Nelson R, Hilker T. 2011.
Stability of sample-based scanning LiDAR-derived vegetation
metrics for forest monitoring. IEEE Transactions of Geoscience
and Remote Sensing 49(6), 2385-2392.
Bower AD, Aitken SN. 2011. Changes in genetic diversity of
whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm) associated with
inbreeding and white pine blister rust. Silvae Genetica
60:113-123.
Bower AD, McLane SC, Eckert A, Jorgensen S, Schoettle A,
Aitken SN. 2011. The future of high-elevation, five-needle
white pines in Western North America. p 376 in Proc High
Five Symposium, Missoula, MT.
Brockett BFT, Prescott CE, Grayston SJ. 2012. Soil moisture is
the major factor influencing microbial community structure
and enzyme activities across seven biogeoclimatic zones in
western Canada. Soil Biol Biochem 44:9-20.
Brooks DD, Chan R, Starks E, Grayston SJ, Jones MD. 2011.
Ectomycorrhizal hyphae structure components of the soil
bacterial community for decreased phosphatase production.
FEMS Microbiol Ecol 76:245-255.
Brunner AJ, Tannert T, Vallée T. 2011. Waveform analysis of
acoustic emission monitoring of tensile tests on welded
wood-joints. J Acoustic Emission 28:59-67.
Bull JG, Kissack G, Elliott C, Kozak RA, Bull GQ. 2012. Carbon’s
potential to reshape supply chains in paper and print. J For
Prod Bus Res 8(2).
Burt JM, Hinch SG, Patterson DA. 2012. Parental identity
influences progeny responses to incubation thermal stress in
sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka. J Fish Biol 80:444-462.
Burt JM, Hinch SG, Patterson DA. 2012. Developmental
temperature stress and parental identity shape offspring
burst swimming performance in sockeye salmon
(Oncorhynchus nerka). Ecol Freshwater Fish 21:176-188.
Camfield AF, Pearson SF, Martin K. 2011. A demographic model
to evaluate population declines in endangered streaked
horned lark. Avian Conser Ecol 6(2):4.
Chen J, Tikina A, Kozak RA, Innes JL, Larson B. 2011. The
efficacy of forest certification: Perceptions of Canadian forest
products retailers. For Chron 87(5):636-643.
Chen J, Innes JL, Kozak RA. 2011. An exploratory assessment
of the attitudes of Chinese wood products manufacturers
towards forest certification. J Environ Manage
92(2011):2984-2992.
Chen Z, Yan N, Deng J, Smith GD. 2011. Flexural creep
behavior of sandwich panels containing Kraft paper
honeycomb core and wood composite skins. Mater Sci Engin
528(16-17):5621-5626.
Christen A, Coops NC, Crawford B, Kellett R, Liss K, Oke TR,
Olchovski I, Tooke TR, vanderLaan M, Voogt JA. 2011.
Validation of modeled carbon-dioxide emissions from
an urban neighbourhood with direct eddy-covariance
measurements. Atmos Environ 45:6057-6069.
Clark TD, Donaldson MR, Drenner SM, Hinch SG, Patterson DA,
Hills J, Ives V, Carter JJ, Cooke SJ, Farrell AP. 2011. The efficacy
of field techniques for obtaining and storing blood samples
from fishes. J Fish Biol 79:1322-1333.
Clark TD, Jeffries KM, Hinch SG, Farrell AP. 2011. Exceptional
aerobic scope and cardiovascular performance of pink
salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) may underlie resilience in
a warming climate. J Exp Biol 214:3071-3081.
Cockle K, Martin K, Robleda G. 2012. Linking fungi, trees,
and hole-using birds in a Neotropical tree-cavity network:
pathways of cavity production and implications for
conservation. For Ecol Manage 264:210-219.
Cockle KL, Martin K, Wesolowski T. 2011. Woodpeckers, decay
and the future of cavity-nesting vertebrate communities
worldwide. Frontiers Ecol Environ 9:377-382.
Cohen S, Sheppard S, Shaw A, Flanders D, Burch S, Taylor B,
Hutchinson D, Cannon A, Hamilton S, Burton B, Carmichael
J. 2012. Downscaling and visioning of mountain snow packs
and other climate change implications in North Vancouver,
British Columbia. Mitigation Adap Strateg Glob Change
17:25-49.
Colin T. Kelleher C, Wilkin J, Zhuang J, Javier Cortés J, Quintero A,
Gallagher T, Bohlmann J, Douglas C, Ellis B, Ritland K. 2012.
SNP discovery, gene diversity, and linkage disequilibrium in
wild populations of Populus tremuloides. Tree Genet Genom,
doi:10.1007/s11295-012-0467-x.
Cook KV, McConnachie SH, Gilmour KM, Hinch SG, Cooke
SJ. 2011. Fitness and behavioral correlates of pre-stress
and stress-induced plasma cortisol titers in pink salmon
(Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) upon arrival at spawning grounds.
Horm Behav 60:489-497.
Cooke SJ, Iverson SJ, Stokesbury MJW, Hinch SG, Fisk
AT, VanderZwaag DL, Apostle R, Whoriskey F. 2011.
Ocean Tracking Network Canada: A network approach
to addressing critical issues in fisheries and resource
management with implications for ocean governance.
Fisheries 36:583-592.
Coops NC, Nilker T, Hall FG, Nichol CJ, Drolet GG. 2011.
Estimation of light-use efficiency of terrestrial ecosystem
from space: A status report. Biosci 60(10):788-797.
Coops NC, Hilker T, Bater CW, Wulder MA, Nielsen SE,
McDermid D, Stenhouse G. 2011. Linking ground-based
to satellite-derived phenological metrics in support of
habitat assessment. Rem Sens Let 3(3):191-200.
Coops NC, Michaud JS, Wulder MA, Andrew ME. 2011.
Comparison of a regional-level habitat index derived from
Meris And Modis estimates of canopy light absorbance.
Rem Sens Let 2(4):327-336.
Coops NC, Waring RH. 2011. Estimating the vulnerability of
fifteen tree species under changing climate in northwest
North America. Ecolog Model 222(13):2119-2129.
Coops NC, Waring RH, Beier C, Roy-Jauvin R, Wang T. 2011.
Modeling the occurrence of 15 coniferous tree species
throughout the Pacific Northwest of North America
using a hybrid approach of a generic process-based
growth model and decision tree analysis. J Appl Veg Sci
14(3):402-414.
Coops NC, Wulder MA, Waring RH. 2012. Assessing lodgepole
and Jack pine vulnerability to mountain pine beetle
expansion into the western Canadian boreal forest. For Ecol
Manage 274:161-171.
Daniels LD, Maertens TB, Stan AB, McCloskey SPJ, Cochrane JD,
Gray RW. 2011. Direct and indirect impacts of climate change
on forests: Three case studies from British Columbia. Can J
Plant Pathol 33:108-116.
Dauwe R, Holliday JA, Aitken SN, Mansfield SD. 2012.
Metabolic dynamics during autumn cold acclimation within
and among phenotypically divergent populations of sitka
spruce (Picea sitchensis) New Phytol 194(1):192-205.
De la Giroday HM, Carroll AL, Lindgren BS, Aukema BH. 2011.
Incoming! Association of landscape features with dispersing
mountain pine beetle populations during a range expansion
event in western Canada. Landscape Ecol 26:1097-1110.
Del Rio LF, Chandra RP, Saddler JN. 2012. The ease of enzymatic
hydrolysis of organosolv-pretreated softwoods. Biores
Technol 107(2012)235-242.
Del Rio L, Chandra RP, Saddler JN. 2011. The effects of
increasing swelling and anionic charges on the enzymatic
hydrolysis of organosolv-preatreated softwoods at low
enzyme loadings. Biotech Bioeng 108(7):1549-1558.
Deslippe JR, Simard SW. 2011. Below-ground carbon transfer
among Betula nana may increase with warming in Arctic
tundra. New Phytol 192(3):689-698.
Deslippe JR, Hartmann M, Simard SW, Mohn WW 2012.
Long-term warming alters the composition of Arctic
soil microbial communities. FEMS Microbiol Ecol, doi:
10.1111/j.1574-6941.2012.01350.x
Dordel J, Seely B, Simard SW. 2011. Relationships between
simulated water stress and mortality and growth rates in
underplanted Toona ciliata Roem in subtropical Argentinean
plantations. Ecol Model 222:3226-3235.
Dordel J, Simard SW, Bauhus, J, Guy RD, Prescott C, Seely B,
Pojas LJ. 2011. Effects of nurse-crop species and density on
nutrient and water availability to underplanted T. ciliata in
north-eastern Argentina. Can J For Res 41:1754-1768.
Drenner SM, Clark TD, Whitney CK, Martins EG, Cooke SJ, Hinch
SG. 2012. A synthesis of tagging studies examining the
behaviour and survival of anadromous salmonids in marine
environments. PLoS One 7(3):e31311.
Duplessis S, Cuomo CA, Lin YC, Aerts A, Tisserant E, VeneaultFourrey C, Joly DL, Hacquard S, Amselem J, Cantarel BL, Chiu
R, Couthinho P, Feau N, Field M, Frey P, Gelhaye E, Goldberg J,
Grabherr M, Kodira CD, Kohler A, Kues U, Lindquist EA, Lucas
S, Mago R, Mauceli E, Morin E, Murat C, Pangilinan JL, Park R,
Pearson M, Quesneville H, Rouhier N, Sakthikumar S, Salamov
AA, Schmutz J, Selles B, Shapiro H, Tanguay P, Tuskan GA,
Henrissat B, Van de Peer Y, Rouzé P, Ellis JG, Dodds PN, Schein
JE, Zhong S, Hamelin RC, Grigoriev IV, Szabo LJ, Martin F.
2011. Obligate biotrophy features unraveled by the genomic
analysis of rust fungi. National Academy of Sciences,
doi:10.1073/pnas.1019315108.
Ebadian M, Sowlati T, Sokhansanj S, Stumborg M, TownleySmith L. 2011. A new simulation model for multi-agricultural
biomass logistics system in bioenergy production.
Biosystems Eng 110(3):280-290.
El-Kassaby YA, Mansfield SD, Isik F, Stoehr M. 2011. In situ wood
quality assessment in Douglas-fir tree. Genet Genom 7:553-561.
El-Kassaby YA. 2012. Breeding without breeding: From no
pedigree to pedigree-free model. Lee H et al (eds). Pp 61-71
in Proc International Symposium Commemorating the 100th
Anniversary of Dr SK Hyun’s Birth. Seoul, Korea.
El-Kassaby YA, Cappa EP, Liewlaksaneeyanawin C, Klápšte J,
Lstiburek M. 2011. Breeding without breeding: Is a complete
pedigree necessary for efficient breeding? PLoS ONE
6(10):e25737, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025737.
Buschiazzo E, Ritland C, Bohlmann J, Ritland K. 2012. Slow but
not low: Genomic comparisons reveals slower evolutionary
rate and higher dN/dS in conifers compared to angiosperms
BMC. Evol Biol 12:8, doi:10.1186/1471-2148-12-8.
Evans Ogden LJ, Martin M, Martin K. 2012. Mating and
breeding success decline with elevation for the Pacific wren
(Troglodytes pacificus) in coastal mountain forests. Wilson J
Ornithol 124:270-276.
Evans PD, Vollmer S. 2011. Wood surface photostabilisation
and coating performance. Pp 39-40 in Salmen L (ed), Novel
Materials from Wood or Cellulose. Proc Annual Meeting of
IAWS Stockholm, Sweden.
Evans PD, Cullis I, Morris PI. 2011. The effectiveness of machined
profiles at reducing the checking of wooden decking.
International Research Group on Wood Protection Document
IRG/WP/11-40541.
Evans PD, Limaye A, Turner M, Senden TJ, Knackstedt MA.
2011. Visualization of copper in treated wood using X-ray
micro-computed tomography. P 8 in Proc 32nd Annual
Meeting of Canadian Wood Preservation Association
Conference, Halifax, NS.
Evans PD, MacDonald I. 2011. Furniture finishing: The Canadian
approach. Wood Focus 3:21-25.
Feau N, Vialle A, Allaire M, Maier W, Hamelin R. 2011.
DNA barcoding in the rust genus Chrysomyxa and its
implications for the phylogeny of the genus. Mycologia,
doi:10.3852/10-426.
Fedy BC, Martin K. 2011. The influence of fine-scale habitat
features on regional variation in population performance of
alpine white-tailed ptarmigan. Condor 113:306-315.
Ferster CJ, Trofymow JA, Coops NC, Chen B, Black TA, Gougeon F
2011. Determination of carbon stock distributions in the flux
footprint of an eddy-covariance tower in a coastal forest in
British Columbia. Can J For Res 41:(7)1380-1393.
Flores A-M, Shrimpton JM, Patterson DA, Hills JA, Cooke SJ,
Yada T, Moriyama S, Hinch SG, Farrell AP. 2012. Physiological
and molecular endocrine changes in maturing wild sockeye
salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, during ocean and river
migration. J Compar Physiol B182:77-90.
Fontana FM, Coops NC, Khlopenkov K, Trishchenko A, Riffler
M, Wulder M. 2012. Generation of a novel 1 km NDVI
data set over Canada, the northern United States, and
Greenland based on historical AVHRR data. Rem Sens Environ
121(2012):171–185.
Fujita M, Himmelspach R, Hocart CH, Williamson RE, Mansfield
SD, Wasteneys. 2011. Cortical microtubules optimize
cellulose crystallinity to drive unidirectional plant growth.
Plant J 66:915-928.
Gale MK, Hinch SG, Donaldson MR. 2011. The role of
temperature in the capture, handling and release of fish. Fish
Fisheries 112:85-95.
Gale MK, Hinch SG, Eliason EJ, Cooke SJ, Patterson DA 2011.
Physiological impairment of adult sockeye salmon in fresh
water after simulated capture-and-release across a range of
temperatures. Fisheries Res 112:85-95.
Ghafghazi S, Sowlati T, Sokhansanj Bi XS, Melin S. 2011.
Particulate matter emissions from combustion of wood
in district heating applications. Renew Sust Energ Rev
15(1):3019-3028.
Greig M, Bull GQ. 2011. Carbon management in BC’s forests: An
update on opportunities and challenges. BC J Forest Ecosys
Manage 12(3):35-54.
Greig HS, Kratina P, Thompson PL, Palen WJ, Richardson JS,
Shurin JB. 2012. Warming, eutrophication, and predator
loss amplify subsidies between aquatic and terrestrial
ecosystems. Glob Chan Biol 18:504-514.
Hajjar R, McGrath DG, Kozak RA, Innes JL. 2011. Framing
community forestry challenges with a broader lens: Case
studies from the Brazilian Amazon. J Environ Manage
92(2011):2159-2169.
Hajjar R, Kozak RA, Innes JL. 2012. Is decentralization leading
to “real” decision-making power for forest-dependent
communities? Case studies from Mexico and Brazil. Ecol Soc
17(1):12.
Hall F, Hilker T, Coops NC. 2012. Data assimilation of
photosynthetic light-use efficiency using multi-angular
satellite data: I. Model formulation. Rem Sens Environ
121:301-308.
Hall FG, Hilker T, Coops NC. 2011. PHOTOSYNSAT,
Photosynthesis from space: Theoretical foundations
of a satellite concept and validation from tower and
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Faculty Development
and Alumni
Emma Z Tully
BA
Director, Development
604.822.8716
[email protected]
Deepti Mathew Iype
BA, MSc
Officer, Development
604.822.0898
[email protected]
Janna Kellett
BA
Coordinator, Development
604.827.3082
[email protected]
Caely-Ann McNabb
BA
Manager, Alumni Relations
604.822.8787
[email protected]
2011-2012 WAS A YEAR of transition and rebuilding for the
Development and Alumni team in Forestry. In April 2011 Emma
Tully joined the Faculty as the Director of Development. In
October 2011 Jenna McCann, Alumni Relations Manager started
a year’s maternity leave, Caely-Ann McNabb started with the
team on a one year secondment from the central UBC Alumni
Affairs office to cover Jenna’s leave and Janna Kellett joined the
team in the role of Development Coordinator. In November 2011,
Deepti Mathew Iype joined the team as the new Development
Officer rounding out the team. The Faculty was also saddened
by the loss of Katherine Quinn in September 2011. Katherine had
held the role of Development Coordinator at UBC for nine years,
formerly with the Faculty of Applied Science and latterly with the
Faculty of Forestry.
COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND ALUMNI
ENGAGEMENT
UBC Forestry is extremely privileged to have a strong
network of alumni and donors, who continue to support
the Faculty through their generous contributions and their
time. The public launch of UBC’s ‘Start an Evolution’ campaign in September 2011 has enabled the Faculty to focus
its development activities in 3 priority areas – Enhancing
Student Learning, Expanding Research Capacity and Building
Community Engagement. In addition to our financial goals,
through this campaign we aim to more than double the number of alumni who are engaged and involved in the Faculty
through offering opportunities for meaningful involvement.
We are pleased to report that for the period of April 1st 2011
to March 31st 2012 the Faculty of Forestry raised $2.65 million
and successfully involved over 1000 alumni in various Faculty
activities. Through the generosity of our alumni and donors
we are now over the half way mark towards the Faculty’s campaign goals.
HIGHLIGHTS IN 2011 – 12
Development:
Several projects were supported by a private foundation
including:
• Three graduate students had an opportunity to have
hands-on work experience through an Internship Program
for 4 months at the Faculty’s Research Forests.
• Six undergraduate students were supported to work at the
Faculty’s Research Forests under co-op placements for 4 months.
• Three groups of Forestry undergraduate students in the
Forestry 424 – Sustainable Forest Management course were
funded to visit and conduct studies at 3 community forests
(Wells Grey Community Forest, Cheakamus Community
Forest and Tse loo K’as Keyoh) and create management plans
that would then be presented to these communities for
consideration.
• The Future Forests Fellowship was established. It is the
most prestigious forestry graduate award available at
any Canadian University and the largest single grant for a
forestry student globally. This Fellowship will pay $60,000
per annum for 3 years, with an additional 4th year if required.
The Future Forests Fellowship enables an outstanding
graduate student to undertake doctoral research focused
on one of the following areas of excellence for the Faculty:
–– Forest products biotechnology / bioenergy;
–– Business operations and management;
–– Forest genetics / forest genomics;
–– Belowground ecology;
–– River and landscape ecology;
–– Climate change and advanced landscape planning;
–– Forest management.
• On the student awards front a new student award to
support Aboriginal students in the Faculty was established
by Gary and Louise Kenwood. The Association of BC Forest
Professionals provided additional support to its currently
existing scholarship endowments and 2 new corporate
Faculty Development
and Alumni
donors, Arclin and Lonza provided support for graduate
students studying under the guidance of Professor Philip
Evans (BC Leadership Chair in Advanced Forest Products
Manufacturing Technology).
• The Asia Pacific Network for Sustainable Forest Management
and Rehabilitation (APFNet) provided a major grant to the
Faculty to lead research on Adaptation of Asia-Pacific Forests
to Climate Change.
• The Shanghai United Benefit Enterprise Group Ltd (UBG)
established an endowment for the United Benefit Group
Fujian Forestry Scholarship. This is the first time in the
history of the university that a mainland Chinese company
has endowed a scholarship that funds mainland Chinese
students to study at UBC.
• The Class of 1961 established a 50th reunion gift by rallying
together to establish the Class of 1961 Forestry Award as a
lasting legacy in support of current and future generations
of forestry students.
Alumni
• The Alumni and Friends BBQ at Loon Lake was held on May 2,
2011 in conjunction with the annual undergraduate Spring
Camp. Attendees enjoyed a condensed tour of the forest
and a barbeque lunch. The event was shortened due to the
date falling on an election day.
• Forestry Alumnus, Mike Apsey, BSF’61, LLD’09, donned
regalia and joined the Faculty representatives on the Chan
Centre stage for the spring convocation ceremony. Mr Apsey
volunteered his time to ‘pin’ graduating Forestry students
with a UBC alumni pin and welcome them into the alumni
community.
• Alumni Weekend fell on May 28, 2011 and Forestry hosted
a special alumni reception at the FSC in partnership with
UBC Welcomes You. Twenty alumni had the pleasure of
meeting future UBC Forestry students and visiting the CAWP
lab while other Forestry alumni took advantage of other
offerings across campus.
• On August 30, 2011 alumni and friends gathered at the Alex
Fraser Research Forest near Williams Lake for a tour and BBQ
with Dean John Innes and Dave Peterson, ADM, Ministry of
Forests, Lands and Natural Resources Operations.
• Dean John Innes hosted an alumni breakfast on September
16, 2011 in Prince George at the COFI convention.
• Hosny El-Lakany, PhD’69, Adjunct Professor in the
Department of Forest Resources Management and Director
of International Forestry at UBC’s Faculty of Forestry, was
recognized by fellow UBC alumni for his work in aiding
communities around the world with sustainable forest
practices. He was the recipient of the Global Citizenship
Award at the annual UBC Alumni Achievement Awards on
November 29, 2011.
• The Alumni Breakfast at the ABCFP conference has turned
into an annual event after the success of it on February 24,
2012 in Victoria. Fifty-eight alumni and a handful of friends
came together for a tasty breakfast in the Bengal Lounge
at the Fairmont Empress Hotel and heard an update on the
Faculty from Dean John Innes.
• Alumni Industry leaders came back to campus on February
24 for the Forestry Graduate Student Association Networking
night. The evening gave the graduate students the
opportunity to network with seasoned forestry professionals
from a wide range of occupations.
• This past year saw four different graduation classes celebrate
milestone reunions. The classes of 1951, 1961, 1971, and 1981
had volunteer committees of alumni organize each respective
reunion. The class of 1961 came together to establish a lasting
legacy by supporting future generations of students with an
endowed class gift.
• In addition to alumni specific events in the Faculty, alumni
were invited to attend other Faculty events such as the
annual CIF Chili Night in November, the CAWP Open House in
February, the Schaffer Lecture in February and the CIF Silver
Ring Ceremony in March.
• The Forestry alumni e-newsletter was sent out monthly over
the past year to all Forestry alumni with an email address. The
newsletter contains information about events, Faculty and UBC
news and highlights, programs, alumni news and job postings.
• The Forestry Alumni Linked:In group has grown to over 120
members over the last year and continues to attract new
members every month.
With 3 short years left in UBC’s ambitious Start an Evolution
Campaign that aims to double both the funds raised and the
number of alumni engaged in the life of the University, the team’s
focus will be on continuing to advance the Faculty of Forestry’s
Campaign. All of the fundraising and alumni engagement efforts
are aligned with the Faculty of Forestry’s Strategic Plan and
will be instrumental in helping the Faculty reach its goals and
achieve its vision.
A number of priority projects have been identified by the
Faculty that fall within the themes of Enhancing Student
Learning; Expanding Research Capacity and Building Community
Engagement. In the coming year we will continue to roll out
these initiatives to the community and seek leadership support
to bring these projects to fruition. We will continue to highlight
projects in Branchlines and through the Faculty’s website; the
campaign website; events and extensive proactive outreach.
We look forward to moving ahead on initiatives to increase
our ability to financially support and reward students and support enhanced educational experiences such as field trips and
exchange opportunities for all students. We are working towards
the establishment of centres of excellence in Asian Forestry
and Indigenous Forestry; increasing support for the Faculty’s
research areas of excellence and seeking support to tackle current research knowledge gaps. We will continue to raise funds in
support of the Loon Lake Redevelopment at the Malcolm Knapp
Research Forest, with a focus on a new dining hall.
We will continue to look for additional opportunities for alumni
and community partners to become involved and engaged in
the Faculty through events and volunteer opportunities.
Once again, on behalf of the students, faculty and staff, thank
you to all those who have contributed their time, interest and
support for the Faculty throughout the last year. We look forward
to working with you again in 2012/13.
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