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Dr. Vander Yacht coordinates the Applied Forest & Fire Ecology Lab (AFFEL) at SUNY ESF which seeks to address threats to forest resources by: 1) understanding the effects of disturbance on forest structure, composition, distribution, & function, 2) integrating this knowledge into the design of modern forest management strategies, tactics, & tools, & 3) testing efficacy through application. The AFFEL explores the hypothesis that disturbance is the key to forest resilience in the face of modern stressors. More specific interests within this broad theme include:

Restoring disturbance-dependent components of forest biodiversity
Effects of disturbance on the adaptive capacity of forests
Fire and fuel ecology and management in the Eastern USA
Microbial plant-soil(-fire) feedbacks & forest regeneration
Oak (Quercus spp.) and pine (Pinus spp.) ecology and silviculture
Mechanical, chemical, and fire control of American beech competition
Ticks, tick-borne disease, and prescribed fire management
Relationships between pyrodiversity and biodiversity
Traditional ecological knowledge of forest disturbance

Charles Goebel is available to speak on forest ecology, ecosystem restoration, riparian ecology, management and restoration, wildland fire and undergraduate education, including new Associate of Science degrees.

Research in Miesel's group focuses primarily on the ecology and management of fire-prone temperate conifer forests, and the role of natural and anthropogenic black carbon in soil ecosystem processes. We are currently investigating the effects of fire, burn severity, and forest management treatments on nutrient pools and fluxes, and the biogeochemical factors that regulate carbon and nitrogen dynamics in forest soil during ecosystem recovery.

Alistair Smith is a professor and chair of the Department of Earth and Spatial Sciences at University of Idaho. He's an internationally recognized leader in wildland fire science and is an expert in pyroecophysiology, a new sub-field of fire ecology that he termed in 2017 that focuses on understanding how fires affect trees, why some die and, when they survive, what happens to them. His team’s research has had a major impact on changing the understanding of fire ecology, especially in the face of more intense and frequent fires under climate change.
Available to speak on: 
Forest fire ecology
Fire behavior
Smoke management