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Shari Halik

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Communications Specialist

303H Aiken Center
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
University of Vermont
81 Carrigan Drive
Burlington VT 05405

Phone: 
802-656-8339
Fax: 
802-656-8683
Email: 
shalik@uvm.edu
Website: 
Bio: 

I assist the Northeastern States Research Cooperative (NSRC), which provides grants for research on the Northern Forest, by maintaining the NSRC website and its research summaries and other information for the public, practitioners, policymakers, and the research community. I maintain The Rubenstein School website and several faculty, project, and course websites within the School. I also coordinate, design, and edit the School's alumni newsletter and other written information as needed.

Education: 

B.S. Forestry 1983 University of Vermont
M.S. Forest Pathology 1990 University of Vermont

Areas of Interest: 

Writing and websites
Tree diseases caused by fungi and nematodes and their beetle vectors

Selected Publications: 

Stewart, J.E., Halik, S., and Bergdahl, D.R. 2004. Viability of Sirococcus clavigignenti-juglandacearum conidia on exoskeletons of three coleopteran species. Plant Disease 88:1085-1091.

Halik, S. and Bergdahl, D.R. 2002. Potential beetle vectors of Sirococcus clavigignenti-juglandacearum on butternut. Plant Disease 86:521-527.

Halik, S. and Bergdahl, D.R. 2002. The butternut curculio as a vector of the butternut canker fungus. Annual Report of the Northern Nut Growers Association 93:1-6.

Halik, S. 1998. The disappearing butternut. Vermont Woodlands 5(2):22-25.

Halik, S. and Bergdahl, D.R. 1994. Long-term survival of Bursaphelenchus xylophilus in living Pinus sylvestris in an established plantation. European Journal of Forest Pathology 24:357-363.