Person

Wayne K Clatterbuck

Assistant Professor | School of Natural Resources

Specialization: Forest Management & Hardwood Silviculture

Overview

Dr. Wayne K. Clatterbuck is a Professor of Silviculture and Forest Management at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He holds an appointment with UT Extension. His responsibilities are in forest management education and include assistance to the county extension network in forestry, coordinator of the Tennessee Master Logger Program, forest landowner education, and continuing education for forestry professionals. He has been with the university since 1995. The primary research interest of Dr. Clatterbuck is in forest stand dynamics focusing on the ecological changes in species composition, stand structure and development during forest succession and following forest disturbance. His studies center in hardwood silviculture, particularly oak species, from obtaining regeneration to intermediate stand treatments and rehabilitating undesirable cutover stands. He is also interested in mixed shortleaf pine-hardwood silviculture including disturbance ecology. He directs several graduate students and is the instructor for the undergraduate and graduate silviculture classes.

Outreach Focus

Plan, conduct & evaluate forestry education programs for forest landowners and continuing education programs for extension & forestry professionals that emphasize current forest mgmt. technologies and implementation of Best Management Practices-BMPs

Teaching Focus

FWF 312 - Practices of Silviculture (lecture & lab) - undergraduates FOR 580 - Advanced Silviculture - undergraduates & graduates FOR 630 - Forest Growth and Development (Stand Dynamics) - graduates

Research Focus

Forest stand dynamics focusing on the ecological changes in species composition, stand structure and development during forest succession and following forest disturbance including rehabilitating undesirable, cutover stands.

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207 Third Creek Building
2415 Fletcher Luck Lane
Knoxville, TN 37996
Education and Training
  • Doctorate, Forestry, General, Mississippi State University, 1985

Wayne K Clatterbuck

Assistant Professor | School of Natural Resources
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207 Third Creek Building
2415 Fletcher Luck Lane
Knoxville, TN 37996
Education and Training
  • Doctorate, Forestry, General, Mississippi State University, 1985
Overview

Dr. Wayne K. Clatterbuck is a Professor of Silviculture and Forest Management at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He holds an appointment with UT Extension. His responsibilities are in forest management education and include assistance to the county extension network in forestry, coordinator of the Tennessee Master Logger Program, forest landowner education, and continuing education for forestry professionals. He has been with the university since 1995. The primary research interest of Dr. Clatterbuck is in forest stand dynamics focusing on the ecological changes in species composition, stand structure and development during forest succession and following forest disturbance. His studies center in hardwood silviculture, particularly oak species, from obtaining regeneration to intermediate stand treatments and rehabilitating undesirable cutover stands. He is also interested in mixed shortleaf pine-hardwood silviculture including disturbance ecology. He directs several graduate students and is the instructor for the undergraduate and graduate silviculture classes.

Outreach Focus

Plan, conduct & evaluate forestry education programs for forest landowners and continuing education programs for extension & forestry professionals that emphasize current forest mgmt. technologies and implementation of Best Management Practices-BMPs

Teaching Focus

FWF 312 - Practices of Silviculture (lecture & lab) - undergraduates FOR 580 - Advanced Silviculture - undergraduates & graduates FOR 630 - Forest Growth and Development (Stand Dynamics) - graduates

Research Focus

Forest stand dynamics focusing on the ecological changes in species composition, stand structure and development during forest succession and following forest disturbance including rehabilitating undesirable, cutover stands.