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Lara Van Akker
Research officer
Pacific Forestry Centre
506 Burnside Road West
Victoria,
British Columbia,
V8Z 1M5
Tel.: (250) 298-2364
Profile
- designs and conducts laboratory and field experiments to study the resistance of conifers to insect attack, and
- explores characteristics of lodgepole pine that influence attack by mountain pine beetle in effort to refine mountain pine beetle risk assessment methods.
Education
- BSc. (Biology Co-op), 1996, University of Victoria; MSc. (Forest Science), 2002, University of British Columbia.