Meet Your Instructors

Dr. John Innes

Hello! My name is John Innes (you can call me John) and I am your instructor for this course.

I work in the Department of Forest resources Management in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia. I got here via a circuitous route that involved doing undergraduate and PhD degrees at the University of Cambridge in the UK, working for a while at what was then University College Cardiff in Wales, followed by a short stint at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, back in England. My first real job was with the UK Forestry Commission, working on forest health surveys. After seven years I moved to Switzerland to do much the same job, before coming to UBC in 1999. At UBC, I hold a position called the FRBC Chair of Forest Management, which was set up by an organization called Forest Renewal BC. The organization no longer exists, but its legacy lives on. An important part of my work is to promote sustainable forest management.

I have very broad interests: you have to if you are going to work in forest management. I have seen forests in many different parts of the world, and in this course, I will try and bring as much of this experience to bear as possible. However, I am always learning new things, and I incorporate this new information into the courses that I teach as quickly as possible.

You'll find some more details about me in the following video: