Carrie Pike
Ph.D. Student - Natural Resources Science and Management
Department of Forest Resources
1530 Cleveland Avenue North
St. Paul, MN 55108
cpike@umn.edu
Education
BS in Biology, Trinity College (Hartford CT), 1989
MS in Forestry, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (Syracuse), 1998
Research
I am coordinator of the Minnesota Tree Improvement Cooperative at the Cloquet Forestry Center. In that position I conduct applied research on many aspects of genetics and silviculture for five native conifers. The objective of my graduate research is to investigate mechanisms associated with increased productivity of select families of white spruce and to elucidate genotype by environment interactions and heritabilities with associated plant traits.
Publications
Pike, Carolyn C., Robison Daniel J., Abrahamson, Lawrence. 2006. Cynipid gall wasps in declining black oak in New York: Relationships with prior tree history and crown dieback. IN: Galling arthropods and their associates, ecology and evolution. Ozaki, K., Yukawa, J., Ohgushi T., and Price, P.W. eds. Sapporo, Japan.
Pike, C., David, A., and Warren, J. Annual Report(s) of the MTIC, 1999-2007
David, A., C. Pike, R. Stine. 2003. Comparison of selection methods for optimizing genetic gain and gene diversity in a red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) seedling seed orchard. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 107: 843-849.
Pike, Carolyn C., Daniel J. Robison, Charles A. Maynard, Lawrence P. Abrahamson. 2003. Evaluating growth and resistance of eastern and western white pine to white pine weevil and blister rust in the Northeast. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry, Vol. 20 (1): 19-26
Hometown: Rockville Centre, New York (Long Island)
Hobbies and interests: Running, hiking, skiing, and anything that could attract and retain the interests of our 3-year old son.
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