86th Forest Industry Lecture
“Challenges to Improving the Quality of Forest Education in North America and Globally, and Implications for the Forest-related Professional Workforce.”
Thursday, November 18, 2021
3:00 – 4:30 pm
Tory Lecture L-12
University of Alberta
no registration necessary (open to all)
Proof of vaccination required to attend lecture in person (all welcome).
The lecture zoom link is as follows: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84801740038?pwd=cFVTYUpLNjk4MDY3bTI1WXhrNDhWQT09
Speaker
Terry Sharik, Professor, College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science at Michigan Technological University, USA. Terry retired as Dean of the School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science (SFRES) at Michigan Tech on June 30, 2018. He remains a research professor in what is now the College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science. He holds a B.S. degree in Forestry and Wildlife Management from West Virginia University and M.F. and Ph.D. degrees in Forest Recreation and Forest Botany, respectively, from the University of Michigan. Prior to assuming the SFRES deanship in July 2012, he held faculty positions at Oberlin College, Virginia Tech, Michigan Tech, University of Michigan Biological Station, and Utah State University.
Dr. Sharik has contributed significantly to the furtherance of research, teaching, and outreach in the natural resources profession through his leadership at the national and international levels. He is co-founder of the Biennial Conferences on University Education in Natural Resources and the North American Forest Ecology Workshops. He served as the Education Chair for the National Association of University Forest Resources
Programs (NAUFRP) from 2012-2018, where he co-authored a strategic plan for enhancement in undergraduate education in forestry and related areas of natural resources and continues to analyze enrollment trends in these fields dating back to 1980. His involvement with the Society of American Foresters, where he is a Fellow, includes being on the editorial board of the Journal of Forestry for forest ecology and for communications and education, and on the Task Force for Accreditation in Natural Resources. He has been active at the international level through the International Symposia on Forestry Education, the International Partnership in Forestry, the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO), the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the UN, and the International Journal of Forestry Research (as guest editor of a special issue). He currently serves on the Board of the Michigan Forest Biomaterials Institute, which spun out of the Michigan Forest Biomaterials Initiative he started at Michigan Tech in 2012. He is the author of over a hundred publications in more than thirty journals in the areas of forest ecology, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and educational reform in natural resources.
