NRMT Seminar Series: Dr. Mat Leitch (LU) "Wood is good!"

Please join us for NRMT Seminar Series speaker Dr. Mat Leitch's talk "Wood is Good!"

Dr. Mathew Leitch (BScF, MScF U New Brunswick; PhD U Melbourne) is a Wood Science and Forest Products Professor in the Faculty of Natural Resources Management at Lakehead. His research interests are in wood quality, inherent properties of trees, and creating whole-tree and landscape-scale wood property maps. Other research areas include biomass for energy and heating systems, product and market developnent for under-utilized tree species, and working with Indigenous Communities on wood product and energy opportunities, Dr. Leitch collaborates widely with researchers in complementary fields (chemical engineering, civil engineering, business management) on wood and wood-derived chemical products and bioenergy systems. Dr. Leitch's team focuses on tree species and silvicultural systems in Ontario and across Canada and internationally in South and West Africa.

This presentation will introduce the fields of wood science, describe the research-based tools developed in Dr. Leitch's team on wood property mapping, and end with an overview of a partnered research campaign with university, industry, and governmental partners in Ghana. 

All are welcome and please share widely

Friday November 8th 9:30-10:30am

Braun Building Room BB1054 or https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/j/97532903824

Coffee will be served at 9 a.m.