Prof. John-Pascal Berrill received his B.S. in Forestry Science from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 1999, received his M.S. in Silviculture from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003 and received his Ph.D. in Silviculture from the University of California, Berkeley in 2008. He works as Professor of Forestry at the Cal Poly Humboldt State University in northern California and has been teaching silviculture & other forest management classes since 2008. He specializes in multi-aged silviculture, tree growth response to treatment and disturbances, rehabilitation and restoration of degraded forests, climate change adaptation, and carbon forestry (silviculture to maximize biomass production/carbon sequestration), and how variations in the natural environment affect results from these research areas.