Austin Himes

Austin Himes is an Assistant Professor in the School of Environment at Washington State University. Prior to his academic career he worked for GreenWood Resources, Inc., a timber investment management organization (TIMO) in Oregon, where he conducted applied forestry research, managed hybrid-poplar plantations, and worked on forest sustainability projects. His research interests are interdisciplinary and revolve around silviculture and management of forests for multiple ecosystem services. He has authored many peer-reviewed articles on a diverse range of topics including trade-offs between ecosystem services in plantation forests, the carbon benefits of building with wood, short rotation woody crop systems and the different ways that people value ecosystem services. He was also a contributing author for the recently released Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Values Assessment, he is a Society of American Foresters Certified Forester and a Registered Forester with the state of Mississippi. Austin received his PhD in Forest Ecosystems and Society from Oregon State University in 2019 and holds a M.S. from the University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences. He completed undergraduate degrees in English Literature (BA) and Environmental Science (BS) at the University of Oregon.