Damery, David T.
Associate Professor
Program Director, Building Materials and Wood Technology
413-545-1770
118 Holdsworth
Email: ddameryddamery(at)nrc.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
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Finding and Removing Barriers to sustainable harvest and primary processing of Massachusetts native woods, MA Dept. of Agricultural Resources, 2007-2008
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Can Commerical Livestock Farmers and Leopards Co-exist: An Economic Analysis, with Andrew Stein, PhD. Candidate
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Ecology and Conservaton of Mongolian Gazelles, with Kirk A. Olson, PhD. Candidate
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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
