Oscar Garcia
Mathematical and Computational Forestry & Natural-Resource Sciences
Chile

Oscar Garc´ıa received a professional forester degree (Ingeniero Forestal) and an M.Sc. in Mathematical Statistics & Operations Research from the University of Chile, and a Ph.D. in Forest Resources from the Uni- versity of Georgia, USA. Between 1976 and 1992 he worked in New Zealand for the Forest Research Insti- tute, developing forest management planning decision- support systems and being responsible for much of their plantation growth modeling program. Later, he led a Government / Industry cooperative eucalypt modeling project in Chile, and conducted forest planning research in Spain for the Galician Government. Oscar occupied the Chair of Forest Mensuration at the Universidad Aus- tral de Chile, and held Guest Professor positions at the ENGREF in France, KVL in Denmark, and the Univer- sidad Polit´ ecnica de Madrid in Spain. He was a Profes- sor and Endowed Chair in Forest Growth and Yield at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada, between 2000 and 2014.