Canadian Forest Service employee directory
Peter Silk
Emeritus Scientist
Atlantic Forestry Centre
1350 Regent Street, P.O. Box 4000
Fredericton,
New Brunswick,
E3B 5P7
Tel.: (506) 451-6084
Profile
- Joined the Canadian Forest Service in 2006
Responsibilities:
- Development of environmentally-sound pest management strategies for insect pests
- Identification and testing of semiochemicals
- Environmental chemistry
Areas of Interest:
- Chemical ecology
- Organic synthesis
- Trace organic analytical techniques
- Mass spectrometry
Current Research Projects
- Forest Alien Invasive Species
– Brown spruce longhorn beetle semiochemistry – Emerald ash borer semiochemistry
- Integrated Pest Management – Pest management tools for the balsam gall midge
- Sex pheromones of native moth and beetle species
– Pale-winged gray – Spruce bark beetle – Elm spanworm
Education
- B.Sc., (1967), University of Salford, UK
- Ph.D., (1970), University of London, UK