Dr. Kevin M. Potter is a landscape ecologist and conservation geneticist. He is a research ecologist with the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center of the United States Forest Service. Previously, he was a research professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University (NCSU) and a postdoctoral fellow with the Camcore International Tree Conservation and Domestication program at NCSU. He earned a Ph.D. in forestry (2006) and an M.S. in natural resources (2002) from NCSU. He focuses on developing and applying innovative qualitative methods and models to address broad-scale, complex threats to forest health, with an emphasis on delivering information and tools that can enable better-informed management of forests and the tree species that constitute them.