Assistant Professor
Mississippi State University
SAF 2023 Committee on National Convention Programs Member
Starkville, Mississippi, United States
Dr. Austin Himes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry at Mississippi State University. Prior to his academic career, he worked for GreenWood Resources, Inc, a Timber Investment Management Organization (TIMO), where he conducted applied forestry research, managed hybrid-poplar plantations, and worked on forest sustainability projects. His research interests are interdisciplinary and revolve around silviculture and management of forests for multiple ecosystem services. He has authored peer reviewed articles on a diverse range of topics including trade-offs between ecosystem services in plantation forests, the carbon benefits of building with wood, short rotation woody crop systems and the different ways that people value ecosystem services. He is an SAF Certified Forester (CF), a Registered Forester with the state of Mississippi, and has been a Forest Stewards Guild member since 2017. Himes received his PhD in Forest Ecosystems and Society from Oregon State University in 2019 and holds an MS from the University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
4:00pm - 5:00pm PST