John Kershaw
Professor
Forestry and Environmental Management
University of New Brunswick
Canada
Biography
John joined the faculty in 1991. Prior to moving to New Brunswick, he worked in forestry in Indiana, Wisconsin, and Washington State. John’s speciality is forest mensuration, forest inventory design and analysis, and growth and yield modeling. John has pioneered the application of copulas, a special class of multivariate distributions, in forest inventory, LiDAR analysis, and growth modeling. He currently has research projects in New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Ontario, Maine, North Carolina, Michigan, Poland, Malaysia, and Taiwan. He is the lead author on the 5th Edition of Forest Mensuration (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017), the most widely used mensuration book in North America.
Research Interest
Forestry and Environmental Management
