Chad Bolding

Chad Bolding, professor of forest operations and engineering in Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment. His interest areas include forest operations, harvesting, wood supply chain efficiency and biomass utilization. His research program is primarily based in the following areas within Forest Operations and Business: (1) Evaluating forest operations with regard to safety, productivity, planning and logistics. (2) Creating tools to improve the efficiency and profitability of forest operations. (3) Analyzing forest business issues such as supply chain management and biomass utilization opportunities and challenges and evaluating the environmental impacts of forest operations activities. Chad has a Ph.D. in Forest Engineering from Oregon State University.