William S. Keeton

Professor of Forest Ecology and Foresty
University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont, United States

William (Bill) Keeton is a Professor of Forest Ecology and Forestry at the University of Vermont. There he directs the Carbon Dynamics Laboratory and is a Fellow in the Gund Institute for Environment. He chairs the IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations) Working Group on Old-growth Forests and is on the Board of Trustees for the Vermont Land Trust. Bill served as a Fulbright Specialist in Ukraine (2008) and more recently as a Fulbright Scholar in Austria (2021). His co-edited the book “Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old-Growth Forests,” was published by Island Press in 2018. Dr. Keeton holds a B.S. in Natural Resources from Cornell University (’90), a Masters in Conservation Biology and Policy from Yale University (’94), and a Ph.D. in Forest Ecology from the University of Washington (2000).

Presentation(s):

• COS 122-5 - Carbon storage in large woody debris in low-order streams at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH: Implications for carbon budget assessments

  Wednesday, August 17, 2022
  9:00 AM – 9:15 AM EDT

• COS 255-6 - Natural disturbance baselines for sustainable forest management in Europe: an index comparing natural and human disturbance frequency, size, and severity

  Thursday, August 18, 2022
  2:45 PM – 3:00 PM EDT