People

Faculty & Staff


Kathy Lewis

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 Green

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 Thompson

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.

Past Students

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.