Pete BettingerPete Bettinger is a professor of forestry at the University of Georgia. He conducts research in applied forest management with particular emphasis on harvest scheduling, landscape planning, precision forestry, and geospatial technologies. Dr. Bettingr received Bachelor’s and Masters degrees in forestry from Virginia Tech, and a PhD in forest resources from Oregon State University. Dr. Bettinger worked for the forest industry in the southern and western United States and maintains this connection to forestry professionals through his leadership in the Southern Forestry and Natural Resource Management GIS Conference and other continuing education courses he regularly offers. Dr. Bettinger has published over 140 peer-reviewed journal articles and is a co-author of four books published by Academic Press, Forest Management and Planning, Introduction to Forestry and Natural Resources, Mapping Human and Natural Systems, and Forest Plans of North America. Dr. Bettinger is Deputy Coordinator for IUFRO Division 4.04.00 (Forest management planning). He is a member of the editorial boards of Forest Science, Journal of Sustainable Forestry, Journal of Forest Planning, European Journal of Forest Engineering, and Mathematical and Computational Forestry & Natural-Resource Sciences. In 2009, he was presented the Award of Excellence for Research and Development by the Southeastern Division of the Society of American Foresters. In 2016 he was presented the Creative Research Medal by the University of Georgia. In 2018, he was elected as a Fellow in the Society of American Foresters. Dr. Bettinger teaches introduction to forestry, forest planning, aerial photogrammetry, and field orientation and measurements courses at the University of Georgia. He has received five teaching awards from the University of Georgia for these activities. Read More Read Less