Leadership

Provost & Vice President for Research

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

Dr. Quackenbush has worked at ESF for more than 30 years, serving as ERE Department Chair from 2018–2024, VPR since 2024, and Provost since 2025. 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.

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. As VPR, Dr. Quackenbush leads ESF’s research program that tallies more than $25 million in expenditures annually.