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Please Join us for Lunch with Dr. Keith Woeste Presenting The Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center: An Example of Forest Service Research and its Roles
Thursday, April 16, 2015 - 12:00 – 1:00 PM (NOTE the time change) Fire Camp Room, Yates Building, 201 14th Street SW, Washington DC (BRING PICTURE ID!)
Dr. Woeste will be presenting his work with the Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center (HTIRC), which is a Cooperative Research and Landowner Education partnership between the USDA Forest Service and Purdue University. The goal of HTIRC is the restoration and enhancement of healthy, diverse, productive forests. High-value hardwoods are the primary focus at HTIRC because they are so important to private forest landowners in the US. Research at HTIRC covers nearly all aspects of forest biology, from tree breeding to ecology, nursery production, silviculture, propagation, genetic transformation, physiology, genetic diversity, species conservation, entomology, and pathology. Because HTIRC is based at a University, training students is central to its mission as well and graduate assistantships are offered every year through the Fred van Eck Foundation. Landowner education at HTIRC is managed through several full- and part-time staff who serve clients ranging from small, private woodland owners to NGOs, private firms, corporate woodland owners, and State Agencies.
Dr. Keith Woeste earned his B.S. in Botany from the University of Florida, all his other academic decorations were earned at the University of California in Davis, where he studied horticultural tree breeding. Following his graduation Keith worked as a Post-doc for 6 years studying the genetic regulation of hormone perception in plants. But he found his feet again when he was hired as a research geneticist with the USDA Forest Service in 1999. His current research interests include the genetics and improvement of black walnut and white oak, and the conservation genetics and breeding of butternut. Woeste lives in West Lafayette, IN with his wife, Vicky, and four children. Location: Fire Camp Room, Yates Building, 201 14th Street SW, Washington DC
Cost: N/A - Brown Bag Lunch (vending machines available)
Time: Arrive at 11:45; Keith’s presentation and Q&A will be from 12:10-1:00 pm. (Please note the time changes from our normal luncheon schedule, you are free to eat during the presentation.)
RSVP and Questions: Contact NCSAF Program Co-Chair: Rocco Saracina, Rocco.Saracina@sfiprogram.org; (202) 596-3459
Mark your calendar – April 16, 2015
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