Faculty Seminar Series
Building bridges – how modern forest operations are supporting sustainable forest management
Dominik Röeser
Associate Professor
Forest Resources Management Department, UBC
January 28, 2020
12 – 1 pm, Caseroom #2916
Light lunch for the first 60 attendees
The field of forest operations in Canada is rapidly changing. Previously, the role of forest operations was to support the harvesting of trees and building support structures to enable the extraction of logs. However, the discipline has evolved significantly and today’s forest operations have become a bridge builder between different disciplines to support sustainable forestry practices in Canada.
The presentation will focus on a vision for forest operations of the future and present recent research highlights in forest operations at UBC. Highlights of the presentation include virtual reality in operational planning, fuel supply for small-scale combined heat and power installations, safety in steep slope harvesting and a pathway to more commercial thinning operations in BC. The presentation will end with an overview of future trends and developments highlighting the rapidly changing skillset of new graduates in forest operations.
Dr. Dominik Roeser is Associate Professor at Forest Resources Management Department, Faculty of Forestry, UBC and a Senior Associate at FPInnovations.
He holds a PhD in forest engineering from the University of Eastern Finland.
Prior to joining the Faculty in 2018, Dominik worked as senior director for FPInnovations, managing a multidisciplinary team focused on improving the competitiveness of the forest sector and developing solutions to reduce the impact of wildfires.
He has more than 17 years of experience in forest operations and believes that forest operations can support all aspects of sustainable forest management. His research has been focused on biomass supply systems to support the emerging bioeconomy in Europe and Canada.