Forestry Expert, Tree Growth & Damage Expert

Dr. Steiner has been a professor at Penn State, one of the largest land-grant universities in the country, for more than 30 years. He currently is a full professor of forest biology in the forestry program and Director of The Arboretum at Penn State, and his time is split between research, teaching, and administration.

His expertise involves forestry and scenarios where damage to trees is a factor or can be used to determine the timing or cause of critical events. He’s published over 150 research articles on the subjects of tree growth, forest ecology, and the genetics of forest population.

Dr. Steiner has served as Vice-Chair for Science, The American Chestnut Foundation; Chair of the Allegheny Society of American Foresters; member of the Committee on Accreditation, Society of American Foresters; General Chair, Society of American Foresters National Convention; working group chair, International Union of Forest Research Organizations; member of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Council of Professional Foresters; advisory committee member, Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; advisory committee member, Purdue’s Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center; and Chair, The Pennsylvania State University Faculty Senate