Education
- PhD | University of Connecticut
- MS | Oregon State University
- BS | North Dakota State University
Dr. Brandon Alveshere is a forest ecologist and conservationist with over 10 years of experience studying the effects of pests, pathogens, disturbances, and management on northern temperate forests. He serves as the Forest Health Coordinator for the Great Lakes Basin Forest Health Collaborative, fostering inter-organizational partnerships and facilitating disease resistance breeding programs directed at identifying, evaluating, and producing disease resistant hemlock, ash, beech, and elm trees needed to restore native forests in the Great Lakes region. Populations of these ecologically and economically important species have been — and continue to be — decimated by deadly introduced pests and diseases, including hemlock woolly adelgid, emerald ash borer, beech bark disease, beech leaf disease, and Dutch elm disease. As the Forest Health Coordinator, Brandon is the primary point of contact for reporting “lingering” American elm, beech, ash, and eastern hemlock — the small percentage of native trees with natural resistance to their respective introduced pests and pathogens.
