The School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) has appointed six new faculty members.
"Each has a commitment to scholarly research and teaching, and to successful environmental strategies and practical management," says F&ES Dean James Gustave Speth.
The new faculty are Lisa Curran, associate professor of tropical ecology; Hilary Sigman, associate professor of environmental economics; Benjamin Cashore, assistant professor of sustainable forestry management; Kathleen McAfee, assistant professor in social science of sustainable development; Ann Camp, lecturer in stand dynamics and forest health; and Florencia Montagnini, professor in the practice of tropical forestry.
"These new appointments are part of a broad effort by the school to substantially strengthen the faculty," Speth says. "We are also actively recruiting four other faculty in the areas of forestry, environmental management, ecosystem ecology and energy-environment linkages. With good fortune, we will complete most of these searches this year also."
Speth adds that with the new appointments, F&ES becomes "world-class in tropical ecology."
Curran will hold a key leadership position for research and teaching in tropical ecology. She has conducted basic research on tropical ecosystem processes, which she has applied toward solving environmental problems in tropical developing countries. She has worked on the ecology of tropical forests in Southeast Asia with application to sustainable tropical forest management, and is considered the leading authority on the Indonesian forest, much of which is threatened, Speth says. From 1996 to this year, Curran was an assistant professor of tropical ecology and ecological sustainability in the Department of Biology and the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. She holds a B.A. in anthropology from Harvard University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton University.
Montagnini is an expert in agroforestry and tropical forestry, with a focus on Central and South America, particularly Costa Rica and Argentina. She holds a B.S. in agronomy from the National University of Rosario, Argentina, an M.S. in ecology from the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research and a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of Georgia.
Sigman specializes in the economics of public policies for environmental protection. She has focused her research on water quality in international rivers. Her paper on "International Spillovers and Water Quality in Rivers: Do Countries Free Ride?" examines the extent to which environmental resources shared among countries suffer worse pollution than wholly domestic resources. She holds a B.A. in economics and studies in the environment from Yale College, an M.Phil. in economics from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Cashore, a policy scientist by training, will teach in the areas of forest policy, international trade and forest certification for sustainable forest management. Prior to joining F&ES, he taught natural resource policy at the University of Auburn. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University from 1996 to 1997. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees in political science from Carleton University and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto.
McAfee's current research concerns new biotechnologies, intellectual property rights to genetic information and living organisms, and related challenges for agriculture, food security, the natural environment and global governance. Prior to joining F&ES, she was a President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Environmental Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She holds a B.A. in zoology with a double minor in biochemistry and physics from Vassar College, and an M.A. in human geography and Ph.D. in political-economic geography from the University of California at Berkeley.
Camp will focus her work at F&ES on forest stand dynamics, particularly on the Pacific Northwest and eastern hardwood forests. Prior to joining the F&ES faculty, she was a research forester with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station in Wenatchee, Washington. She holds a B.S. in environmental science from Rutgers University, an M.F.S. in silviculture and forest ecology from F&ES and a Ph.D. in silviculture and forest protection from the University of Washington.
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