Faculty Profile
Timothy Volk

Timothy Volk
Professor and Associate Chair
306 Bray Hall
Sustainable Energy graduate program
- Sustainable Energy graduate program
- Short-rotation Woody Crops Program
- Graduate Program in Environmental Science
Highest Education
Ph.D., State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (Short-Rotation Forestry), 2002
Areas of Study
Management and sustainability of short-rotation forestry systems (www.esf.edu/willow), biomass and bioenergy, agroforestry, phytoremediation, international forestry
Courses Taught
SRE - 450 Renewable Energy Capstone Planning - Fall
SRE - 441 Biomass Energy - Spring
SRE - 491 Sustainable Energy Management Capstone - Spring
Publications
Only select publications from 2020 and 2019 are included. A full list of publications can be found here - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YK2_hKYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra.
Publications marked with a * indicate where a gradaute student was a lead author. Publications makred with a # indicates that an undergraduate student was the lead author.
1. *Yang, S., T.A. Volk, M-O.P. Fortier. 2020 Willow biomass crops are a carbon negative or low-carbon feedstock depending on prior land use and transportation distance to end users. Energies. DOI 10.3390/en13164251
2. *Quin, R.J., H. Ha, T.A. Volk, T.R. Brown, S. Bick, R.W. Malmsheimer, M-O. Fortier. 2020. Life cycle assessment of forest biomass energy feedstock in the northeast United States. GCB Bioenergy. DOI 10.1111/gcbb.12725
3. Stanton, B., A. Bourque, M. Eisenbies, J. Espinoza, C. Gantz, A. Himes, A. Rodstrom, R. Shuren, R. Stonex, T.A. Volk, J. Zerpa. 2020. The Practice and Economics of Hybrid Poplar Biomass Production for Biofuels and Bioproducts in the Pacific Northwest. Bioenergy Research. DOI 10.1007/s12155-020-10164-1
4. Wood, C.D., T.E. Amidon, T.A. Volk and R.M. Emerson. 2020. Hot water extraction: Short rotation willow, mixed hardwoods and process considerations. Energies. DOI 10.3390/en13082071.
5. *Frank, J.R., T.R. Brown, R.W. Malmsheimer, T.A. Volk, H. Ha. 2020. The financial trade-off between the production of biochar and biofuel via pyrolysis under uncertainty. Biofpr. DOI 10.1002/bbb.2092.
6. Eisenbies, M.H., T.A. Volk, D.P.L. DeSouza, K.W. Hallen. 2020. Cut and chip harvester material capacity and fuel performance on commercial-scale willow fields for varying ground and crop conditions. GCB Bioenergy DOI 10.1111/gcbb.12679.
7. Nelson, N., W.E. Burguson, B.G. McMahon, R. Meilan, L.B. Smart, F.E. Gouker, P. Bloese, R. Miller, T.A. Volk, M. Cai, D. Buchman. 2019. Discovery of geographically robust hybrid poplar clones. Silvae Genetica 68:101-110.
8. *Therasme, O., T.A. Volk, M. Eisenbies, H. Sein, N. Usman. 2020. Hot water extracted and non-extracted willow biomass storage performance: Fuel quality changes and dry matter losses. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. DOI 10.3389/fenrg.2019.00165.
9. Wang, Y., J. Wang, J. Schuler, D. Hartley, T.A. Volk, M. Eisenbies. 2020. Optimization of harvest and logistics for multiple lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks in the Northeastern United States. Energy. DOI 10.1016/j.energy.2020.117260.
10. Zalesny, R.S., G. Berndes, I. Dimitriou, U. Fritsche, C. Miller, M. Eisenbies, S. Ghezehei, D. Hazel, W.L. Headlee, B. Mola-Yudego, M.C. Negri, E.G. Nichols, J. Quinn, S.D. Shifflett, O. Therasme, T.A. Volk, C. Zumpf. 2019. Positive water linkages of producing short rotation poplars and willows for bioenergy and phytotechnologies. WIREs Energy Environ. DOI 10.1002/wene.345
11. Eisenbies, M., O. Therasme, T.A. Volk. 2019. Three bulk density measurement methods provide different results for commercial scale harvests of willow biomass chips. Biomass and Bioenergy. 124:64-73.
12. *Therasme, O., M. Eisenbies, T.A. Volk. 2019. Overhead protection affects fuel quality and natural drying of leaf-on woody biomass storage piles. Forests DOI 10.3390/f10050390
Current Graduate Advisees
Azmery Afnan
aiafnan@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Volk
- Area of Study: Environmental Science
Links
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/azmery-iqbal/
Personal Statement
Growing up in Bangladesh and witnessing the first-hand effect of different hazards and the way the communities recover had led me to question how I can make it better on a holistic level. I did both my BSc and MSc in Disaster Science and Management from University of Dhaka. As an eager mind who loves to explore the roles of spatial analysis, I have a predilection to grab any opportunity that involves research regarding burgeoning of it. My goal is to continue pushing the limits of climate vulnerability and disaster assessments with geospatial analysis and remote sensing applications.
Favorite Quote
If you are hanging in there, you have not reached your limit. ~ Kang Joo Eun
Sahadat Hossain
mhossa09@syr.edu
- Degree Sought: PHD
- Graduate Advisor(s): Naim and Volk
- Area of Study: Sustainable Energy