Forestry News

Headshot of Brooks Mendell

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Brooks Mendell (PhD ’04)

‘You have to take chances to do great things’   It was almost a challenge. Brooks Mendell had just earned his Ph.D. and was starting as a professor at Warnell when one of his committee members asked a tongue-in-cheek question: “How does it feel to be the world expert in something nobody cares…
Pete Bettinger walks with graduate student Jack Derochers

Forestry professor receives national award for research

A leading researcher in forest harvest scheduling and landscape planning at the University of Georgia has been honored by the Society of American Foresters for his work.   Pete Bettinger, the Leon "Buddy" Hargreaves Jr. Distinguished Professor in Forest Management at UGA’s Warnell School of…
Asiful Alam stands with trees as a backdrop

Blown away by changes: Hurricanes that hit the South can have an effect on carbon

Note: This story is part of a special issue of The Warnell Log focused on carbon. The aftermath of a hurricane includes downed trees, damaged saplings, salt water intrusion—and a lot less carbon. That’s one calculation made by Warnell researcher Asiful Alam, a Ph.D. student (and M.S. graduate) who…
Andrew Carroll and Henry Morris stand among mass timber beams

Storage units: Mass timber buildings offer a carbon-friendly option for new commercial construction

Note: This story is part of a special issue of The Warnell Log focused on carbon. If you’re looking to store some carbon, wood-frame buildings will give you a big bang for your buck. This works great for houses—but can you scale that up to commercial buildings? Enter: Mass timber. Made from lumber…
A field after a stand of trees is cut.

Doing the math: Equations for calculating trees’ carbon amount

Note: This story is part of a special issue of The Warnell Log focused on carbon If you want to calculate the amount of carbon stored in a tree or in forests, Warnell researcher Dehai Zhao has you covered. For more than a decade, Zhao, a senior research scientist who specializes in statistics and…

Support Warnell

We appreciate your financial support. Your gift is important to us and helps support critical opportunities for students and faculty alike, including lectures, travel support, and any number of educational events that augment the classroom experience. Learn more about giving.

Every dollar given has a direct impact upon our students and faculty.