Michael I Jones

I specialize in forest health and disturbance ecology, with a focus on coastal conifer forests and oak woodlands. My program aims to help landowners, managers, and stewards implement good stewardship practices that help create healthy and sustainable forests that are resilient to future disturbances.

Before joining UCCE, I studied the invasive forest pest emerald ash borer as a graduate student at the State University of New York, Environmental Science and Forestry. Prior to attending graduate school, I was a research associate in the Department of Entomology, UC Davis in collaboration with the USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection in southern California where I worked on a variety of forest pest research projects involving the detection, evaluation, and management of native and invasive forest pests, including goldspotted oak borer. I started my forest health career as an undergraduate at UC Davis in the Plant Pathology department where I worked in the Rizzo Lab helping with research on sudden oak death.