People
Faculty & Staff
Primary interests are disturbance ecology, especially biotic disturbance agents and influence of forest management practices and climate change on natural disturbance dynamics.
Professor
Phone: 250-960-6659
Email: kathy.lewis@unbc.ca
Scott's primary interests are in marginal environments and forest responses to climate change. His research activities have focused on sub-Arctic and Arctic environments. Community-based sustainability is an emerging interest, with new projects looking at local food production and forest ecosystem vulnerabilities in Yukon communities
Associate Professor
Phone: 250-960-5817
Email: scott.green@unbc.ca
Doug completed his masters degree at UNBC, and he used tree ring analysis to examine fine and intermediate scale disturbance dynamics in three different ecosystems in sub boreal forests of central BC
Greenhouse Curator and Tree Ring Lab Coordinator
Phone: 250-961-2148
Email: doug.thompson@unbc.ca
Current Students
Tim Owen, PhD. Investigation of intra-species variation in lodgepole pine secondary metabolite synthesis as a defense against Dothistroma septosporum
Neil Thompson, PhD. Outbreak dynamics and spatial relationship between western spruce budworm and Douglas-fir beetle in the northern Chilcotin region
Past Students
Doug Thompson, MSc
Thesis title: Fine scale disturbance and stand dynamics in mature spruce-subalpine fir forests of central British Columbia.
Publications:
Thompson, R.D., Daniels, L.D. and Lewis, K.J. 2007. A new dendroecological method to differentiate growth responses to fine-scale disturbance versus regional-scale environmental variation. Can. J. For. 37:1034-1043.
Cedar Welsh, MSc
Thesis title: The relationship between climate and outbreak dynamics of Dothistroma needle blight in northwest BC.
Publications:
Welsh, C., Lewis, K., Woods, A. 2014. Regional outbreak dynamics of Dothistroma Needle Blight Linked to weather patterns in British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 44:212-219
Welsh, C., Lewis, K.J. and Woods, A. 2009. The outbreak history of Dothistroma needle blight; an emerging forest disease in northwest British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 39: 2505-2519.
Benita Kaytor, MSc
Thesis title:
Yumiko Miyamoto, MSc
Thesis title: Growth responses of three coexisting conifer species to climate variables across a range of climate conditions.
Publications:
Miyamoto, Y., Griesbauer, H.P. and Green, D.S. 2010. Climate-growth comparisons of three coexisting conifer species at elevational treelines in the central interior of British Columbia, Canada. Forest Ecology and Management 259: 514-523.
Nicholas Plett, BSc
Undergraduate Thesis title: Fire history in the John Prince Research Forest
Sean Sweeney, MSc
Thesis title: Environment, climate and tree growth relationships at the western Canadian arctic treeline.
Hardy Griesbauer, MSc
Thesis title:
Publications:
Griesbauer, H.P. and Green, D.S. 2012. Geographic and temporal patterns in white spruce climate–growth relationships in Yukon, Canada. Forest Ecology and Management. 267: 215–227.
Griesbauer, H.P., Green, D.S., and O’Neill, G. 2011. Using a spatiotemporal climate model to assess population-level Douglas-fir growth sensitivity to climate change across large climatic gradients in British Columbia, Canada. Forest Ecology and Management 261: 589–600
Griesbauer, H.P. and Green, D.S. 2010. Assessing the climatic sensitivity of Douglas-fir at its northern range margins in British Columbia, Canada. TREES 24: 375-389
Griesbauer, H.P. and Green, D.S. 2010. Regional and ecological patterns in Interior Douglas-fir climate-growth relationships in British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40: 308-321.
