Research Professor
MU Center for Agroforestry
Columbia, Missouri, United States
Dr. Michael A. Gold is a Research Professor and Associate Director at the University of Missouri Center for Agroforestry (UMCA) (1998-present). Mike has been active in agroforestry research, education, and outreach for the past 40 years. He was a founding member and first President of the Association for Temperate Agroforestry (AFTA) and served on the editorial board of the Agroforestry Systems journal as both a consulting editor and associate editor over an 11 year period (1992-2003). He was both a Working Party member and Coordinator for the IUFRO Temperate Agroforestry Working Group (1.15.01) from 1993-2002. He has a B.S. in Forestry (1975) and a Ph.D. in Forest Genetics and Agroforestry (1984) from Michigan State University (MSU). At MSU (1984-1998) he focused on tropical agroforestry, primarily on fodder trees and indigenous knowledge. He has taught agroforestry courses since 1987 and currently teaches the agroforestry overview core course as part of the Center’s, 100% online, agroforestry MS and graduate certificate program. He is the Agroforestry Graduate Emphasis Area Coordinator for the MU School of Natural Resources and advises ~25 online agroforestry graduate students. With funding from a SARE PDP grant (2013), he was the lead PI in the establishment of the Center’s annual Agroforestry Academy. His research focuses on the selection and improvement of Chinese chestnut and the development of market and consumer knowledge for multiple specialty crops (e.g., chestnut, elderberry, pawpaw).
Establishing a “Certified Agroforester” Professional Credential
Thursday, October 26, 2023
1:30pm - 3:00pm PST
Friday, October 27, 2023
3:00pm - 4:00pm PST