Damery, David T.
Associate Professor
Program Director, Building Materials and Wood Technology
413-545-1770
118 Holdsworth
Email: ddameryddamery(at)eco.umass.edu
Links: personal home page
Primary interests
I currently teach classes covering: The Business of Building, Building Materials and Forest Products Marketing, and The Built Environment. I am also a member of the UMASS Architecture and Design faculty. I have research interests in sustainable forest management, wildlife conservation economics, and forest products marketing and economics. My work experience includes: engineering, business consulting, management and sales and marketing of forest products and building materials. I serve as a Regional Board Member of the Forest Products Society and also as Chair of its Northeast Section.
Current Projects
Finding and Removing Barriers to sustainable harvest and primary processing of Massachusetts native woods, MA Dept. of Agricultural Resources, 2007-2008
Can Commerical Livestock Farmers and Leopards Co-exist: An Economic Analysis, with Andrew Stein, PhD. Candidate
Ecology and Conservaton of Mongolian Gazelles, with Kirk A. Olson, PhD. Candidate
Eastern Log Building: history, geography, technology – with James S. Peters, PhD. Candidate
Courses Taught
- BMATWT 352 – Building Materials and Forest Products Marketing
- BMATWT 353 – Business of Building
- BMAWT 191A – The Built Environment
Selected Recent Publications
Peters, James S., David T. Damery, and Peggi Clouston. 2006. “A Decade of Innovation in Particleboard and Composite Materials: a content analysis of Washington State University 's International Particleboard/Composite Materials Symposium Proceedings” Journal of Forest Products Business Research 3(1)
Damery, David T. 2006. “Landowner Driven Sustainable Forest Management and Value-Added Processing: A Case Study in Massachusetts , USA ” Accepted for publication in the Journal of Sustainable Forestry
Olson, K.A., D. Odonkhuu, D. Damery, T.K. Fuller and G.B. Schaller. 2005. Subsistence Hunting of Mongolian Gazelles in Eastern Mongolia: Implications for Sustainable Management, IX International Mammalogical Conference, Sapporo Hokkaido, Japan, July 31-August 5, 2005.
J. Peters, D. Damery, and Clouston, P. 2004. “Residential timber framing as a “value–added” approach to private non-industrial forest ownership”, Proceedings 8th World Conference on Timber Engineering, June 14-17, 2004, Lahti , Finland , pp. 167-170
Damery, David T. 2006. “Aquaculture Marketing Handbook: Book Review”, Fisheries, 31 (10): 516
Damery, David T. 2006. “Engineered Wood Products: Building the Future” Forest Products Journal. 56(7/8): 14-15
Damery, David T. 2006. “Housing Within Reach: Innovations in Affordable Housing” Forest Products Journal. 56(6): 9-10
Damery, David T., Curt Bellemer, and Gordon Boyce. 2006. Massachusetts Directory of Sawmills and Dry Kilns, 2006. Dept. of Conservation and Recreation, Boston , MA . 52 p
Last updated August 6, 2010 by Roxann Cormier
