 | P. Mark S. Ashton |
P. Mark S. Ashton, newly designated as the Morris K. Jesup Professor of Silviculture,
conducts research on the biological and physical processes governing the regeneration
of natural forests, with a focus on the deciduous forests of southern New England
and the Asian tropical forests in Sri Lanka and Malaysia.
T H I S
Mark Ashton appointed the
Jesup Professor of Silviculture
Ashton selected his field sites in these regions to allow for a comparison of
growth, adaptation and plasticity within and among close assemblages of species
that have evolved within forest climates with differing degrees of seasonality.
His findings from these studies have implications for understanding the maintenance
of diversity of tree species in forested ecosystems and the adaptability of forests
to changes in climate. The results of his research have been applied to the development
and testing of silvicultural techniques for restoration of degraded lands and
for the management of natural forests for a variety of timber and non-timber
products.
Ashton has won international awards for his work, including the UNESCO Sultan
Quaboos Prize for Environmental Conservation, the Leopold Schepp Award for Forest
Conservation, and the Appalachian Trail Countryside Initiative Award from the
U.S. National Park Service.
Certified as a senior ecologist by the Ecological Society of America, Ashton
is a licensed professional forester in Connecticut and Maine. He is also certified
as a forester by the Society of American Foresters. He has been a consultant
or adviser to forest management, watershed management and reforestation projects
around the world. He has written textbooks on silviculture and agroforestry as
well as numerous journal papers, book chapters and monographs, and is the editor
or co-editor of a number of other books, including field guides to common trees
and shrubs in Sri Lanka and Puerto Rico and “The Practice of Silviculture:
Applied Forest Ecology” (ninth edition).
Born in the Brunei Sultanate, Ashton spent his early childhood in Sarawak and
Brunei before moving to Scotland and, later, to the United States. He earned
his B.S. and M.F. from the University of Maine and his Ph.D. from Yale in 1990.
He joined the Yale faculty in 1991 as a lecturer in silviculture and became a
full professor in 2000. As Yale’s director of school forests, he supervises
the management of 12,000 acres of University forestlands in Connecticut, Vermont
and New Hampshire. He is formerly the John D. Musser Director of the Tropical
Research Institute and also served as forest manager of the Yale-Myers Forest
in Woodstock Valley, Connecticut.
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