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Goldfarb appointed head
of forestry department
Dr. Barry Goldfarb, professor of forestry and director of the Loblolly and Slash Pine Rooted Cutting Program at NC State, has been named head of the Department of Forestry in the College of Natural Resources. His appointment became effective Aug. 1.
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Dr.
Barry Goldfarb
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“We are delighted that Barry Goldfarb has agreed to become department head,” says Dr. Larry Nielsen, dean of the College of Natural Resources. “Barry brings a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of the department, from teaching to research to extension and engagement, coupled with a highly successful career that also covers all our missions. Because of his ability to lead people and to lead science, he will carry our highly ranked forestry programs to even greater accomplishment and recognition.”
The Department of Forestry provides professional education, makes important discoveries, and disseminates information to improve conservation and management of natural resources. It has approximately 60 teaching, research and extension faculty; 250 undergraduate students and 100 graduate students. The department’s research, teaching and extension activities enhance the quality of the environment; increase forest productivity and encourage regional economic development through programs in tree improvement, genetics and productivity; resource monitoring, measurements and management; environmental technology; forest and landscape ecology; wildlife science, resource economics and policy; cooperative extension and education; and international forestry.
A professor in the department he will lead, Goldfarb has served as director of the NC State Loblolly and Slash Pine Rooted Cutting Program – a research team of scientists studying vegetative propagation technologies for loblolly and slash pines and working to implement clonal forestry for enhanced productivity and quality in Southern pine plantations.
Goldfarb owned and operated a forestry services company in Oregon for five years, completing various pre-commercial thinning and inventory contracts for private industry and federal agencies. Since completing his graduate education and coming to NC State, he has taught undergraduate and graduate tree physiology, receiving the Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor award in 2004. In addition to his vegetative propagation research, he has studied the basic processes of root initiation and tree maturation, the genetic basis of wood property variation, and other topics of tree physiology and development.
A member of the NC State faculty since 1993, Goldfarb received his bachelor’s degree in biology from Southern Oregon State College in 1983; a master’s in forest pathology in 1986 and a Ph.D. in forest physiology and genetics in 1990 from Oregon State University. In addition, he completed a post-doctoral research program in molecular biology of trees at the University of Minnesota in 1992.
Goldfarb succeeds Dr. Fred Cubbage, the forestry department head since 1994. The recent recipient of a Fulbright Environmental Science Award, Cubbage is stepping down to spend five months lecturing and conducting research on the interactions among sustainable forestry, forest certification, intensive forestry, and biodiversity at universities and government research organizations in Uruguay and Argentina. He will then return to the department to resume teaching and research.
Posted August 26, 2004
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