Timothy G. Gregoire has joined the faculty of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) this fall as the J.P. Weyerhaeuser Jr. Professor of Forest Management, by vote of the Yale Corporation..
Gregoire, who is principally a professor of forest statistics at F&ES, has directed his teaching and research toward developing statistical models for determining the attributes of natural resources, such as forests. Like a pollster who predicts the behavior of a human population based on the sampling of a select group, Gregoire uses probability sampling, biometrical modeling and other statistical applications to extrapolate information about both individual trees and broader forest populations, as well as other factors impacting the management of these natural resources. Using these statistical methods, Gregoire can determine everything from the number of leaves on a single tree to the number of trees in a specific geographical region, the changes a forest undergoes over a certain period of time, the recreational use of natural resources, and more.
Because of the researcher's dual focus, his more than 60 scientific articles have appeared in both forestry/ecology and statistical journals. He is coauthor of "Sampling Methods for Multiresource Forest Inventory" and coeditor of "Modeling Longitudinal and Spatially Correlated Data."
Gregoire has worked to encourage interactions between researchers in the statistics community and those in the natural resources field. He is a leader in organizations that promote the use of biometrics and environmental statistics and recently organized an international conference titled "Modelling Longitudinal and Spatially Correlated Data: Methods, Applications, and Future Directions." Within the American Statistical Association he serves as an executive officer of its Section on Statistics and the Environment, and he recently accepted an invitation to join the editorial boards of the journal Biometrics and Environmetrics. His honors include the American Society for Potogrammetic Engineering and Remote Sensing's 1993 President's Award for Practical Papers and the Distinguished Achievement Medal from the American Statistical Association.
Before joining the faculty of F&ES, Gregoire taught at the College of Forestry and Wildlife Resources, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He holds a B.S. from Princeton University, an M.S. in forest resources from the University of New Hampshire, and an M.Ph. in forest biometrics and a Ph.D. from Yale.