Education

B.S. (Forestry), 1968, The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, U.S.A.;
M.F.S. 1970, & Ph.D., 1975, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Employment History

1960-1973:
Various jobs in forestry (T.S.I., tree planting, timber marking and cruising, land surveying, fire fighting, logging, and research assistance) in high school and College in South Carolina, California, Vermont, and Mississippi (all in U.S.A.).

1973-1974:
Research Fellow, The Harvard Forest, Harvard University, Petersham, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

1974-1975:
Instructor in Biology, Department of Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

1975-2001:
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, then full Professor, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.

2002-Present
Pinchot Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.A.

1982-1983:
Fulbright Fellow to Turkey, at Middle East Technical University, Department of Biology, Ankara, Turkey.

1983:
Fulbright Visitor to Germany.

Contact Information

203.432.7409

chad.oliver@yale.edu

Chadwick Oliver

Pinchot Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies, and Director, Yale Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry

Dr. Oliver's research during the 1970's and 1980's focused on the basic understanding of how forests developed and how silviculture could be applied to ecological systems most effectively. Much of this work is incorporated in a book he wrote entitled Forest Stand Dynamics (1990, and update edition in 1996) with a former student as co-author. He has continued this work; during the past decade he has also examined how this understanding can help resolve scientific, technical, and management issues at the landscape and policy levels. He is currently working on landscape approaches to management and is involved in the technical tools, the policies, the management approaches, and the educational needs. He was a member of the Science Panel at President Clinton's Forest Conference in 1993, has testified at United States Senate and House of Representatives Committee Hearings, and has served on or chaired various scientific panels for the United States and Washington State executive and legislative branches of government. He was recently chair of the Forest Health Report science panel, presented to the United States House of Representatives and member of both a United States Senate Scientific Panel and a Society of American Foresters national task force to review national forest management legislation.

Dr. Oliver is the author of more than 100 scientific and technical papers on forest science subjects and has considerable experience advising public and private forest resource organizations in the United States and abroad. His work has taken him to all parts of the United States and to Canada, Mexico, Turkey, Nepal, Japan, Thailand, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Ecuador, Germany, and France.