Rate My Professor Brian Aukema

Aukema earned a Ph.D. in Entomology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003, an M.S. in Entomology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999, an M.S. in Biometry (Statistics) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2003, and a B.C.S. in Biology from Redeemer University College in 1996. He relocated his research program to the University of Minnesota in 2010 after serving as a research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service at the University of Northern British Columbia. In 2011, he was awarded the University McKnight Land-Grant Professorship. Key publications include Picklo, R., Eidson, E., Steed, B., and B.H. Aukema (2024), Eastern larch beetle as a potential threat to western and subalpine larches, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change; McDowell, N.G. et al. (2020), Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world, Science; Ward, S.F. and B.H. Aukema (2019), Anomalous landscape-scale outbreaks by an invasive defoliator and a native bark beetle, Ecography; and Rosenberger, D.W., Venette, R.C., and B.H. Aukema (2018), Development of an aggressive bark beetle on novel hosts, Journal of Applied Ecology.