Biography

Dr. Richard H. Waring is a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Forest Science. He was born on May 17, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois. He did his Ph.D. 1963 Botany (Soils), University of California, Berkeley. He served as Assistant Professor, School of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon during 1963-70.He did many editorial roles. He was the Associate Editor, ECOLOGY in 1985-88.He has referred many journal articles. After obtaining degrees in forestry (B.S.) and botany (M.S.) at the University of Minnesota he went on to create some of the first process-based predictive models of forest growth and water use. As part of the International Biological Program in the 1970s, He was involved in constructing more complicated ecosystem models, which proved too difficult to apply. In the early 1980s, outbreaks of bark beetles and spruce budworm provided a chance to conduct field experiments that helped them understand better the role of insects in forests and how we might better manage them. Later in the decade, he became interested in doing climate change research sponsored by the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA). They started to design models that took advantage of information acquired from earth-orbiting satellites to predict productivity, biodiversity, and the susceptibility of forests to natural agents of disturbance. This kind of research, based on a search for common ecological principles, attracted the attention of scientists across the U.S. and from abroad. As a result, he started writing textbooks about forest ecosystems and review articles for a wider audience (see publications).

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Research Interest

Forests,Ecosystem