Faculty Profile
Timothy Volk

Professor

Department of Sustainable Resources Management
306 Bray Hall

[email protected]
315-470-6774

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 2023 to 2026 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. *Ananthakrishan, K., T.A. Volk, Y.W. Jin, A. Juneja, O. Therasme, D. Kumar. 2025. Bioethanol production from shrub willow (Salix spp.) using a low severity pretreatment and detoxification free fermentation by engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Bioresource Technology Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biteb.2025.102394
2. #Burt, H., M.H. Eisenbies, K. Hallen, T.A. Volk. 2025. Yield and survival of shrub willow clones over two rotations reveal important patterns about selections for an evapotranspiration cover on former industrial land. Forests. 10.3390/f16081314
3. *Asamoah, S.S., S. Mousavi, T. Brown, R.W. Malmsheimer, T. Volk, J. Frank. 2025. Techno-economic evaluation of landowner participation in willow biomass production for a biorefinery. Biomass and Bioenergy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2025.108060
4. ^Wahlstrom, M., M. Jacobson, M. Langholtz, T.A. Volk, I. Bush. 2025. Mobilizing mine lands for biobased decarbonization strategies. Biofpr. https://doi.org/10.1002/bbb.2766
5. *Hossain, Md. S., T.A. Volk, O. Therasme, R.R. Shaker. 2024. Evaluation for Establishing aMonitoring System to Reach Sustainability in New York State's Bioeconomy. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su162411191
6. *Hossain, Md. S. and T.A. Volk. 2024. Identification of land and potential production of willow biomass crops using a multi-criteria land suitability assessment. Land. https://doi.org/10.3390/land13111831
7. #Santucci, S., M. Eisenbies, T.A. Volk. 2024. Yield and survival of 19 cultivars of willow crops over eight rotations. Forests. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15112041
8. *Hossain, Md. S., O. Therasme, T.A. Volk, V. Kumar, D. Kumar. 2024. Optimization of combined hydrothermal and mechanical refining pretreatment of forest residue biomass for maximum sugar release during enzymatic hydrolysis. Energies. https://doi.org/10.3390/en17194929
9. *Hossain, Md. S., O. Therasme, T.A. Volk, P. Crovella. 2024. Assessing the environmental impact of biobased exterior insulation panel: A focus on carbon uptake and embodied emissions. Energies.  /doi.org/10.3390/en17143406
10. Morin, T., Davies-Taylor, V., T.A. Volk, A. Eallonardo, D. Leopold. 2024. Continuous measurement of CO2, CH4 and H2O fluxes from a restored marl fen and inland salt marsh communities overlaying a Solvay waste settling basin. Ecological Engineering. doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2024.107289
11. Ha, H., T. Brown, R.J. Quinn, T.A. Volk, R. W. Malmsheimer, M-O. Fortier, S. Bick, J.R. Frank. 2024. A Stochastic Technoeconomic Analysis of Forest Biomass Feedstock Supply Chains: Clean and Dirty Chips for Bioenergy Applications. Bioenergy Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12155-024-10764-1
12. Eisenbies, M.H. and T.A. Volk. 2024. Harvesting losses for a cut and chip harvesting systems operating in willow short rotation coppice. Energies. https://doi.org/10.3390/en17071541
13. Arodudu, O.T., O. Therasme, T.A. Volk, R.W. Malmsheimer, P. Crovella, R. Germain, D. Kloster, D. Kumar. 2023. Towards a carbon accounting framework for reporting the benefits of biogenic wood carbon to net-zero carbon targets at sub-national levels. Forests. https://doi.org/10.3390/f14101959
14. ^Mojumder, A., Md.S. Hossain, T.A. Volk. 2023. Estimation of change in aboveground biomass in four national forests in Bangladesh. Biotropia. DOI: 10.11598/btb.2023.30.3.1858
15. *Ali A., T.W. Koch, T.A. Volk, R.W. Malmsheimer, M.H. Eisenbies, D. Kloster, T.R. Brown, N. Naim, O. Therasme. 2022. The environmental life cycle assessment of electricity production in New York State from distributed solar photovoltaic systems. Energies 15 (19), 7278 DOI https://doi.org/10.3390/en15197278
16. *Sleight, N.J., T.A. Volk, M. Eisenbies. 2023. Belowground biomass and root:shoot ratios of three willow cultivars at two sites. Forests. https://doi.org/10.3390/f14030525