-College of Natural Resources -
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
342 Julian Cheatham Hall - Blacksburg, VA 24061-0324
Website: www.cnr.vt.edu
Virginia Tech is the senior land grand institution in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It has the only academic program in forestry and natural resources in the State. The College of Natural Resources fulfills all three missions of the land grant institution of instruction, extension, and research.
Specialists in the extension program have long been involved with the Virginia Forest Products Association in conducting workshops and shortcourses as well as helping the membership on a one-on-one basis. Joint publications and computer programs have been produced and made available to the forest products industry.
More recently a close tie has been developed between the industry and Virginia Tech in the area of research. With federal, state, and industry support the faculty and staff have worked on several projects of importance to the industry. These have included residue utilization, automation of edging and cross-cutting, pallet design, recycling, lumber drying, industry noise control, industrial forestry, as well as others.
Listed below are the names, titles areas of specialty and telephone numbers of Virginia Tech's resource contacts. Call them directly with specific questions regarding education, extension and research.
ADMINISTRATION:
Dr. J. Michael Kelly,
Dean College of Natural Resources (540) 231-5481
Richard G. Oderwald, Associate Dean, Academic Programs, College of
Natural Resources (540) 231-5482
Robert J. Bush, Associate Dean, Research, College of Natural
Resources(540) 231-4403
Harold E. Burkhart, Head Department of Forestry (540) 231-5483
Dr.
Eric Hallerman, Head, Department of Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences
(540) 231-5573
Paul M. Winistorfer, Head, Department of Wood Science & Forest
Products (540) 231-8853
James E. Johnson, Associate Dean, Outreach, College of Natural Resources
(540) 231-7679
Suzie S. Leslie, Student Advisor, Undergraduate Education (540) 231-5482
SPECIAL PROGRAMS in the
Department of Wood Science and Forest
Products:
Bob Smith, Director - Center for Forest Products Marketing and Management
(540) 231-9759
Bonnie MacCubbin, Member Services - Center for unit Load Design (540)
231-5370
Tom Hammett, Coordinator - International Forestry & Forest Products (540)
231-2716
Ralph Rupert, Director - Sardo Pallet & Container Research Lab (540)
231-7106
Earl Kline, Co-Director - Sloan Forest Industries Center (540) 231-8841
Charles Frazier, Director - Wood-Based Composites Center (540) 231-8318
Audrey Zink-Sharp, Coordinator - Wood Magic (540) 231-8820
Brian H. Bond, Extension Specialist - Wood Products Mfg., Drying (540)
231-8752
Robert M. Shaffer, Extension Specialist - Industrial Forestry & Logging
(540) 231-7744
The Department of Wood Science and Forest Products is one of the leading teaching, research and outreach programs serving the forest products industry in North America. The department offers a comprehensive undergraduate major with six career-specific options: adhesion science, forest products marketing and management, manufacturing systems, non-timber forest products, packaging science and wood structures and materials.
The department offers a graduate degree program leading to the M.S. and PhD. Extension specialists in the department serve the industry in the state with educational programming and research programs of mutual interest. Many industries in the state cooperate with the department by offering plant tours, summer jobs and research projects to students in the department.
EXTENSION SPECIALISTS:
Brian
H. Bond, Extension Specialist - Wood Products Mfg., Drying (540)
231-8752
Harry L. Haney, Extension Specialist - Forest Taxation & Landowner
Econ. (540) 231-5212
Robert H. Shaffer, Extension Specialist - Industrial Forestry &
Logging (540) 231-7744
James E. Johnson, Extension Specialist - Silviculture (540) 231-7679
Bob Smith, Specialist - Forest Products Marketing and Management (540)
231-9759
Mark S. White, Specialist - Lumber and Pallet Manufacturing (540)
231-7134