Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management

Faculty

 

Research Interests

I am interested in the biology and management of diseases and insects of forest and shade trees. I have particular interests in the spatial occurrence of forest diseases and insects and their relationships to environmental factors including metrological conditions. My graduate students research such diverse topics as environmental relationships and occurrence of cankers, root diseases, and rusts, and the impacts of bark beetles on fire and fuels, pathway analysis of firewood and exotics, and the impact of dust control chemicals.

 

Classes I Teach:

Integrated Tree Health Management (BSPM 365) (Fall)
Forest Health Issues (BSPM 521) (Fall Even Years)
Scientific Writing (BSPM 530) (Spring)

 

Publications:

Jacobi, W.R., B.A. Goodrich, R. D. Koski. 2009. Environmental effects of magnesium chloride based dust suppression products on roadside soils, vegetation and stream water chemistry. Colorado State University, Agricultural Experiment Station, Technical Report, TR09-04,185pp.

Goodrich, B. A., Koski, R.D. and W.R. Jacobi. 2009. Monitoring surface water chemistry near magnesium chloride dust suppressant treated roads in Colorado. J. Environ. Qual., doi: 10.2134/jeq2009.0042.

Goodrich, B.A., Koski, R.D. and W.R. Jacobi. 2009. Changes in soils and vegetation along roads treated with magnesium chloride for dust suppression. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 198: 165-188.

Jacobi, W.R., Zeglan, S. and Beale, J.D. 2008. Black stain root disease progression in coastal Douglas-fir in British Columbia. Can. J. Plant Pathol. 30: 339-344.

Kearns, H. S. J., Jacobi, W. R., and Geils, B. W. 2008. A method for estimating white pine blister rust canker age on limber pine in the central Rocky Mountains. Forest Pathology 39:177-191.