Dr. Timothy Volk has over 20 years of experience working with agroforestry and short-rotation woody crops in the Northeastern United States and West Africa. He holds degrees from the University of Guelph (Guelph, Ontario) in Natural Resources Management, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY) in Forest Science and SUNY – ESF (Syracuse, NY) in Forest and Natural Resources Management. He is currently a research associate at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF). In that capacity he is responsible for a series of research projects focused on the development of willow biomass cropping system as a feedstock for bioproducts and bioenergy. He also conducts research on living snowfences and streambank stabilization, phytoremediation of brownfields and contaminated sites, regional biomass resource supplies, tools to assess the sustainability of bioenergy systems, and harvesting systems for short rotation woody crops.