Participant 8: Pennsylvania State University, School of Forest Resources

  • Main Tasks: Staff exchange, research and networking
  • Address: 121 Forest Resources Building, University Park, PA16802, USA
  • Website: www.psu.edu www.sfr.psu.edu

General Information

The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is the land-grant research university of Pennsylvania, United States. Penn State’s University Park Campus is ranked 15th among public universities in the United States. The enrolment at the Penn State University Park campus is nearly 44,000 with a total enrolment of over 84,000 across its 24 campuses, placing it among the ten largest public universities in the United States. Penn State currently ranks as one of the premier research universities in the nation with more than $800 million in annual R & D expenditures.

The Penn State School of Forest Resources (SFR) was established in 1907 as the Department of Forestry at The Pennsylvania State College. A wood products undergraduate curriculum was added in 1941, and a wildlife and fisheries science curriculum was added in 1981. The SFR currently consists of 41 faculty members, 30 staff members, 120 graduate students, and 315 undergraduate students. SFR Faculty conduct research in a wide variety of forest-resources related disciplines, including forest management optimisation models.

Main research areas

Research in the School of Forest Resources (SFR), relevant to this project includes developing forest management planning decision support systems; developing operations research methods to more efficiently solve spatially-explicit forest management planning problems; developing growth and yield models for eastern North American hardwood forests; and assessing the current and potential impacts of climate change on north-eastern North American forests.

Key Persons

Dr Marc E. McDill, Associate Professor of Forest Management.

International collaboration

Dr. McDill has collaborated with scientists from Canada, Portugal, Chile, Ukraine, South Africa, and Japan. For instance Dr. McDill has a long lasting collaboration with ISA (José G. Borges), in optimisation techniques




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