Core Participants
Center for the Urban Environment

SUNY ESF Faculty and USDA Forest Service On-Campus Mentors

David Nowak (PI)	Emanuel Carter	Douglas J. Daley	Martin Dovciak	Stewart Diemont	James Gibbs
Myrna H.P. Hall	Richard S. Hawks	Gordon Heisler	David L. Johnson	Karin E. Limburg	Donald J. Leopold
Douglas A. Morrison	Tsutomu Nakatsugawa	Giorgios Mountrakis	Richard C. Smardon	David A. Sonnenfeld	Timothy Toland

Partners

• Syracuse Center of Excellence
• USDA Forest Service - Urban Forests, Human Health, and Environmental Quality
• SUNY Center for Brownfield Studies
• Syracuse University/SUNY ESF EnSpire – Environment and Society: Partnerships in Interdisciplinary Research and Education
• Emeritus Faculty
  • MANION, Paul D., Professor Emeritus. PhD, University of Minnesota, 1967. Forest and shade tree pathology; epidemiology of forest and urban tree disease. pdmanion@mailbox.syr.edu, author of Tree Disease Concepts (2nd Edition) and Forest Decline Concepts.
  • PHILLIP J. CRAUL (1968-1994), Professor Emeritus; Forest and Natural Resources Management; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1964. Author of Urban Soils: Applications and Practices, Urban Soil in Landscape Design, and Soil Design Protocols for Landscape Architects and Contractors.
  • NORMAN A. RICHARDS (1963-1997), Professor Emeritus, Forest and Natural Resources Management; Ph.D., State University College of Forestry at Syracuse University, 1968. Urban Forestry.
  • VANDRUFF, Larry W., Professor Emeritus. PhD, Cornell University, 1970. Wildlife biology and management; ecology of wildlife in urban and urbanizing areas; population ecology of the gray squirrel and mallard duck; environmental impacts on local and regional mammalian populations.

ESF Outreach

• Rick Beal