The Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry
YALE FOREST FORUM LEADERSHIP SEMINAR
Speaker Biographies -- Fall 2008
Marsh Hall Rotunda, 360 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut
Sept. 18, 2008
Harold E. Burkhart
University Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech Department of Forestry
Harold E. Burkhart holds a B.S. degree in forestry from Oklahoma State University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in forest biometrics from the University of Georgia. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Forestry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, since 1969. From 1976-1977, Dr. Burkhart was Senior Research Fellow at the Forest Research Institute in Rotorua, New Zealand. He has published extensively in professional journals on the subjects of forest growth and yield prediction and on forest inventory and sampling. A former editor of the journal Forest Science, he is a Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Society of American Foresters.
