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Leadership

Interim Chief Academic Officer, Provost, &  Vice President of Research

Dr. Lindi Quakenbush

Dr. Lindi Quackenbush serves as Interim Vice President for Research and is a professor in the Environmental Resources Engineering department at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF).

Dr. Quackenbush has worked at ESF for more than 25 years, serving as ERE Department Chair from 2018–2024. Her research interests cover a range of image processing and remote sensing application areas including forestry-related topics, such as developing tools to support forest classification and invasive species management, urban management subjects including object-oriented algorithms for impervious surface classification and linear feature extraction, and water-focused topics including riparian zone characterization and water quality monitoring.  

Dr. Quackenbush received B.Surv. and B.Sci. degrees from The University of Melbourne, Australia in 1994. She moved to the US in 1995 and earned M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in remote sensing and image processing from ESF in 1998 and 2004, respectively. She also spent a year (1993) as an exchange student at the University of Maine in Orono, where she learned to appreciate cold weather. Dr. Quackenbush is a Fellow of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) and chairs the ASPRS Awards Program.

Dr. Quackenbush takes over the leadership of a research program that tallies about $20 million in expenditures annually. In her role, she is responsible for leading, promoting, and driving research programs at ESF, which over the past two years have added faculty clusters in the bioeconomy (carbon cluster), indigenous environmental science, terrestrial ecosystem restoration, water science, and urban sustainability. Additional faculty clusters are planned in data science and nanomaterials science.

Goals and Objectives

This position reports directly to the ESF President, leads the faculty and academic-facing staff in implementing the institution’s goals, is part of the President’s collaborative leadership executive cabinet, brings fresh ideas and perspectives to improve programs, enhances the College’s academic reputation, and strengthens contributions to global environmental and sustainable resource design, management, research, and stewardship.

 

 

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