Douglas D. Stokke

515-294-2115, Fax 515-294-2995
dstokke@iastate.edu

B.S. Forestry (Forest Products Option), Iowa State University, 1980
M.S. Forestry (Forest Products Option, Operations Research Minor), University of Minnesota, 1982
Ph.D. Forestry (Biology/Wood Science), Iowa State University, 1986

Experience

Assistant Professor, Michigan Technological University, 1986-1991
Forest Products Technologist, GM-1380-13 USDA Forest Service, North Central and Northeastern Forest Experiment Stations, 1992-1998
Doug joined the ISU Forestry Department as an Associate Scientist/Adjunct Professor in August, 1998.
He was appointed as an Assistant Professor on July 1, 1999.
Panel Manager, USDA CSREES National Research Initiative, GS-0401-15, 2002-2004
Doug founded DJM Enterprises, L.C. in April 2004. The company currently has two divisions, Midwest Fiber Consultants, specializing in services to the wood and natural fiber industries, and MicroWorld Images, focused on products and services for informal science education.

Publications

Stokke, D.D., and L.H. Groom, editors. 2006. Characterization of the Cellulosic Cell Wall. Blackwell Publishing, Ames, IA USA. ISBN 0-8138-0439-6. Expected publication March 2006. http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/book.asp?ref=0813804396&site=1

Stokke, D.D. 2005. Alternative low-cost biomass for the biocomposites industry. Pages 159-175 in A.K. Mohanty, M. Misra, and L.T. Drzal, eds. Natural Fibers, Biopolymers, and their BioComposites. CRC Press. ISBN 084931741X. 875 pages.

Julson, J.L., G. Subbarao, D.D. Stokke, H.H. Gieselman, and K. Muthukumarappan. 2004. Mechanical properties of biorenewable fiber/plastic composites. Journal of Applied Polymer Science 93(5):2484-2493.

Cutter, B.E., M.V. Coggeshall, J.E. Phelps, and D.D. Stokke. 2004. Impacts of forest management activities on selected hardwood wood quality attributes: A review. Wood and Fiber Science 26(1):84-97.

Stokke, D.D., and D.J. Gardner. 2003. Fundamental aspects of wood as a component of thermoplastic composites. Journal of Vinyl and Additive Technology 9(2):96-104.

Kuo, M.l., D.J. Myers, H. Heemstra, D. Curry, D.O. Adams, and D.D. Stokke. 2001 & 2003. Soybean-based adhesive resins and composite products utilizing such adhesives. U.S. Patent Nos. 6,306,997 & 6,518,387. U.S. Government Patent Office. (The former was the first patent ever issued to faculty members in the ISU Forestry/NREM department).

Semen, E., M.l. Kuo, Y.-C. Su, R.B. Hall, and D.D. Stokke. 2001. Physical properties of Kraft pulp from four-year-old aspen hybrids and crosses. Wood and Fiber Science 33(1):140-147.

Pregitzer, K.S., D.D. Reed, T.J. Bornhorst, D.R. Foster, G.D. Mroz, J.S. McLachlan, P.E. Laks, D.D. Stokke, P.E. Martin, and S.E. Brown. 2000. A buried spruce forest provides evidence at the stand and landscape scale for the effects of environment on vegetation at the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary. Journal of Ecology 88:1-10. see news release at: http://www.admin.mtu.edu/urel/breaking/2000/forest.html

Hu, W.-J., S.A. Harding, J. Lung, J.L. Popko, J. Ralph, D.D. Stokke, C.-J. Tsai, and V. L Chiang. 1999. Repression of lignin biosynthesis promotes cellulose accumulation and growth in transgenic trees. Nature Biotechnology 17(8):808-812. {The cover photo is one of my micrographs} http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v17/n8/index.html