Associate Professor of Energy Land Management
Shawn Grushecky is currently an associate professor for Energy Land Management in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at West Virginia University. He received a PhD in Forest Resource Science from the WVU School of Natural Resources. Shawn led the development of the curriculum and degree program in Energy Land Management, which is one of only ten programs accredited by the American Association of Professional Landmen. Shawn maintains an active research program in the area of natural resource and related energy development and has been the investigator or co-investigator on research grants totaling over $10 million while with WVU. Currently, Shawn’s research and outreach is mainly in the areas of energy development and land restoration as well as natural resource enterprises.
Publications
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Hu, W.; Wang, J.; Hu, J.; Schuler, J.;
Grushecky, S.; Jiang, C.; Smith, W.; Nan, N.; Sabolsky, E.M. Combustion
Behaviors, Kinetics, and Thermodynamics of Naturally Decomposed and Torrefied
Northern Red Oak (Quercus rubra) Forest Logging Residue. Energies 2024, 17,
1607. https://doi.org/10.3390/en17071607
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Brown, D.J., S.C. Knopka,
S.T. Grushecky, S.F. Owen, J.W. Edwards. 2023. Influence of natural
gas pipeline right-of-ways on eastern red-backed salamander occurrence in the
Northern Appalachians. Journ. Fish & Wildlf Manage 10.3996/JFWM-22-032
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Mesa, A. N., Strager, M. P.,
Grushecky, S. T., & Kinder, P. 2023. Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
to Evaluate Revegetation Success on Natural Gas Pipelines. Environmental Management,
1-11.
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Hu, W., Wang, J., Hu, J., Schuler, J.,
Grushecky, S., Nan, N., W. Smith & Jiang, C. 2023. Thermodegradation
of naturally decomposed forest logging residues: Characteristics, kinetics,
and thermodynamics. Bioresource Technology, 376, 128821. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2023.128821
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Vance, J., Wang, J., Zhang, X.,
Grushecky, S., & Spinelli, R. 2023. Chipping operations and chip
quality from mixed hardwood forests for bioenergy. International Journal of
Forest Engineering, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/14942119.2023.2187677
- MacKenzie, A., W. E. Veselka, P. Kinder, M. P. Strager, S. T. Grushecky, J. A. Hubbart, and J. T. Anderson. 2023. Restoring a first order stream and adjacent riparian wetlands in West Virginia: Integrating lessons from wetland science and practice. Wetland Science and Practice 41(2):61-69 (Technical Report)
- Grushecky, S.T., K. Harris, M. Strager, J. Wang, and A. Mesa. 2022. Land Cover Change Associated with Unconventional Oil and Gas Development in the Appalachian Region. Environ Manage. 70(5), 869-880 DOI: 10.1007/s00267-022-01702-y
- Grushecky, S.T., Zinkhan, C., Strager, M., and T. Carr. 2022. Energy production and well site disturbance from conventional and unconventional natural gas development in West Virginia. Energy, Ecology and Environment. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40974-022-00246-5.
- Strager, M. P. Kinder, and S. Grushecky. 2021. Utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles to predict surface runoff. Reclamation Matters, Spring 2021: 14-20.
- González, J. J., Quesada, H., Adhikari, S., Bond, B., & Grushecky, S. 2020. Design of a Total Revenue Forecasting Tool to Estimate the Economic Output of Hardwood Logs. Forest Products Journal, 70(4), 439-447 (JAN 2021).