Justin DeRose, Ph.D.

Field: Wildland Resources
Areas of Focus: Climate Adaptation, Climate Change, Forest Ecosystems, Forest Fires, Natural Resources Management, Trees

Expertise

• Forestry
• Forest Management
• Forest Restoration
• Silviculture
• Stand Dynamics
• Natural Resources Management
• Dendrochronology
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Carbon Accounting
• Tree-Ring Science

Bio

Justin DeRose is an assistant professor of Silviculture and Applied Forest Ecology in the Department of Wildland Resources and Ecology Center. He advises the Forest Ecology and Management degree program and is involved in preparing students for careers in the profession of Forestry and Natural Resources Management. His research program focuses on better understanding forested ecosystems and developing management tools to build their adaptive capacity to climate change. He is interested in advancing research in forestry and forest management including forest ecology, fire ecology, silviculture, stand dynamics, and carbon accounting in support of land management decision-making. He also studies natural disturbance ecology including, human and natural fires, bark beetle outbreaks, drought, invasive insects, and climate change effects. His dendrochronology laboratory supports tree-ring research focused on climate reconstructions, streamflow reconstructions, and climate-growth relationships, that provide historical perspective for water management, and climate context for archaeological data and ancient Indigenous population demographics.