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Sustainable Natural Resources Graduate Certificate

OSU faculty in natural resources – including fisheries, wildlife, forestry, rangeland and water – are world renowned. The College of Forestry is regularly named one of the top natural resources universities in the United States. Through online delivery, we bring this expertise to you. OSU Extended Campus is a leader in distance education, offering over 700 online classes in more than 60 subjects throughout the year, including graduate and undergraduate degrees, minors and certificates (graduate and professional).

Faculty Contact

Dr. Badege Bishaw, Program Director
Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Natural Resources
Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society
Oregon State University
badege.bishaw@oregonstate.edu

 Faculty Profiles

JOHN BAILEY (SNR 531)
Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management. Silviculture, Fuels and Fire Management, and Adaptive Ecosystem Management.

Research is focused on using traditional and experimental silviculture practices to achieve a spectrum of objectives in a landscape, including commodity production, habitat creation, and ecosystem restoration. The art and science of forest management has not fundamentally changed in the last decade, but the objectives have broadened and become more controversial. This forces our forest management actions to be more creative, complex, adaptive and defensible.

BADEGE BISHAW (SNR 506, 511, 532)
SNR Program Director, MNR Programs Director, and Instructor, Forest Ecosystems and Society.

Specialty area interests include agroforestry, social forestry, silviculture, and international forestry research, education and extension work, internal and external to the U.S. Other interests include establishing riparian forest buffers on agricultural lands in the Oregon coast range plus red pine growth and yield in Minnesota.

RICK FLETCHER (SNR 531)
OSU Extension Forestry

Professor, Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management; Extension Forester.  Specialty includes designing and implementing research and extended education programs which examine forest management practices and policy choices appropriate for private and public forests. Past efforts have emphasized sustainable silviculture systems, environmental performance indicators, green certification and marketing, agroforestry, and production of non-timber forest products.

M. JESSE FORD (SNR 535)
Research Associate Professor, Fisheries and Wildlife.

Specialties: ecosystems ecology and paleoecology; salmonid behavior; fish distribution and habitat selection in freshwater and estuarine systems; salmonid habitat restoration; influence of riparian vegetation and land use activities on fish habitat; integrated watershed management.

Research Interests:  Atmosphere-biosphere interactions, high latitude ecosystems, influence of airborne contaminants on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, long-term patterns of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem development.  Specialty includes

LOREN KELLOGG (SNR 534)
Lematta Professor of Forest Engineering, Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management.

Teaching and research specialty areas include biomass harvesting and utilization, skyline thinning, silviculture systems, and international forest engineering.

JOE KERKVLIET (SNR 521)
Senior Resource Economist, The Wilderness Society; OSU Emeritus Professor of Economics.

Professional specialties include applied microeconomics, resource and environmental economics, econometrics, and regulation. Past research has focused on measuring economic values, preferences, and responses to environmental policy. New research includes evaluating the effectiveness endangered species recovery programs.  Currently active in collabrative management of publically owned forest lands, including projects funded by the U.S. Forest Service's Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program.

DENISE LACH (SNR 520)

Professor, Sociology; Transitional Director of the School of Public Policy, OSU.  Trained as a sociologist, research interests focus on issues raised by individuals and organizations dealing with environmental problems including the use of scientific information in decision making, stakeholder and citizen involvement, and program evaluation.

LEON LIEGEL (SNR 533)

USDA Forest Service, Research Forester/Soil Scientist: Rio Piedras, PR, 1973-85 and Corvallis, OR, 1985-2001; Oregon State University, College of Forestry, Corvallis, OR: Research Associate and Coordinator, Sustainable Forests Partnership, 2001-2007.  Research interests include global sustainable resource management; resource inventory and monitoring; and integrating biological, socio-cultural, and managerial sciences to manage non-timber ecosystem products.  He is bilingual in Spanish; conducted forestry and soils research in Puerto Rico and Latin America, 1970-85, on fast-growing exotics and native forest species; and teaches techniques to create poster displays for scientific and other audiences.

DAVE PERRY (SNR 530)
Forest Ecosystems and Society

Professor Emeritus. Research interests focus on the relationship between ecosystem structure and processes, with particular emphasis on the role of biodiversity in ecosystem stability, including genetic diversity within tree populations, factors influencing herbivory in forests, impacts of harvest and site preparation on soil nutrients and biota, the functional role of mycorrhizal fungi in forest ecosystems, restoration ecology, landscape process, the response of ecosystems to global climate change, and ecosystem management. He is lead author of the textbook Forest Ecosystems.

MATTHEW TRAPPE (SNR 533)
Forest Ecosystems and Society

Research Associate. Dr. Trappe has studied Special Forest Products since 1996, with a focus on commercially harvested fungi. His research projects have included habitat modeling for edible fungi, effects of disturbance (prescribed fire, wildfire, and recreational use) on nutrient cycling and community ecology, and he has worked with the Forest Service, BLM, and private industry on rare species inventory and management.

DAVID TURNER (SNR 540)
Forest Ecosystems and Society

Professor.  Research interests include ecosystem model development, application of satellite remote sensing to vegetation monitoring, and analysis of carbon budgets at the landscape, regional, and continental scales.

BLAINE (TONY) VOGT  (SNR 522)
Philosophy and Sociology 

Adjunct Professor. Research interest is in the relationship between environmental sustainability and environmental justice, and in the relation between environmental ethics and the environmental imagination. He teaches research ethics as well as environmental ethics, and also a course titled "Worldviews and Environmental Values." From 2001 - 2005 he was the Assistant Director of The Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word at OSU.  His most recent publication is an essay in In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens (OSU Press, 2008).  He completed a Field Residency on Mount St. Helens in 2010.