Title: Director/Professor
Institution: University of Maine
Address: 5755 Nutting Hall, Orono, Maine 04469
Email: aaron.weiskittel@maine.edu
Phone: (207) 581-2857
Visit Aaron’s Research Website
Research Interests: forest growth and yield, applied statistics, forest biometrics and mensuration, forest ecology
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Aaron Weiskittel is a Professor of Forest Biometrics and Modeling, Irving Chair of Forest Ecosystem Management, Director of the Center for Research on Sustainable Forests, and Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Advanced Forestry Systems. He has been at the University of Maine since 2008, following a two-year stint at Weyerhaeuser. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on forest measurements and biometrics. He has been PI or Co-PI on nearly $32 million in research grants from USFS, NSF, and NASA, including a recent $10 million USDA SAS grant from Purdue University and the University of Georgia. He has authored nearly 165 peer-reviewed publications and was lead author on a widely cited textbook on forest growth and yield modeling. He currently serves as an associate editor for Frontiers in Forests and Global Change.
As Director of the Center for Research on Sustainable Forests, Dr. Weiskittel oversees the research activities of three long-term, self-funded field sites, a national industry-university research cooperative, and numerous region-wide initiatives including the Cooperative Forestry Research Unit, Northeastern States Research Cooperative, Forest Climate Change Initiative, and Maine Spruce Budworm Task Force. Under Dr. Weiskittel’s leadership, the research center is focusing on a more landscape-driven geoinformatics agenda.
Education:
Ph.D., Forest Science, Oregon State University, 2006
M.S., Forest Resources, Oregon State University, 2003
B.S., Natural Resources (Forestry), The Ohio State University, 2001
Ongoing and Recent CESU Projects:
- Develop protocols for regional ES groups for use in DSM and productivity interpretations for soil survey.