Gerald Presley

Presley, Gerald

Position Type:
Faculty
Job Title:
Assistant Professor
Department:
Wood Science & Engineering
Fax Number:
(541) 737-3385
Email:
Gerald.Presley@oregonstate.edu
Advising:  Graduate Major Advisor
Website:
LinkedIn
Other Websites:
Utility Pole Research Cooperative
Education
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 2018
B.S., Eastern Illinois University, 2011
Research Areas
Wood Identification and Characterization
Forest-based Bio-Products
Resource Extension and Optimization
Research Interests
  • Wood Durability and preservative treatments
  • Environmental impacts of preservative treated wood
  • Alternative wood treatments and wood modification
  • Natural durability of wood
  • Wood composite durability
  • Applied mycology and mycoremediation
  • Biomass thermochemical conversion into fuels and materials
Graduate Students:
Selected Publications:

  1. Gerald Presley and Matthew Konkler (2024). Copper migration from treated wood garden boxes into soil and vegetable biomass Part I: The first two growing seasons after installation, Wood and Fiber Science, 56(2), 91-99.

  2. Brooke Edmunds, Gerald Presley, and Matthew Konkler (2024). Pressure-treated wood for raised bed construction in the Willamette Valley, Oregon State University Extension Service; https://extension.oregonstate.edu/gardening/soil-compost/pressure-treat…

  3. Lukas Sommerauer, Matthew Konkler, Gerald Presley, Thomas Schnabel, Alexander Petutschnigg and Barbara Hinterstoisser (2024). Douglas fir bark: composition, extracts utilization and enzymatic treatment for enrichment of bioactive constituents, Holzforschung, vol. 78, no. 4, 2024, pp. 203-215. https://doi.org/10.1515/hf-2023-0130.

  4. Ray Van Court, Leon Rogers, Seri Robinson, and Gerald Presley (2023). Wood Coloration and Decay Capabilities of Mycoparasite Scytalidium ganodermophthorum, Journal of Fungi, 9(7), p. 738. https://doi.org/10.3390/jof9070738

  5. Savanah Senn, Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya, Gerald Presley, Anne E.Taylor, Rayne Stanis, Kelly Pangell, Daila Melendez, Jillian Ford (2023). The Community Structure of eDNA in the Los Angeles River Reveals an Altered Nitrogen Cycle at Impervious Sites, Diversity, 15(7), p. 823, https://doi.org/10.3390/d15070823

  6. Kyra Wood, Jeffrey Morrell, Matthew Konkler, Anders Kjellow, and Gerald Presley (2023). Preservative treatment of Tasmanian plantation Eucalyptus nitens using supercritical carbon fluids, Wood and Fiber Science, 55(1), pp. 83-93; https://doi.org/10.22382/wfs-2023-08 -The third author is my research assistant. My contribution: 5% (funding, writing, editing)

  7. Allemann, Marco N., Presley, Gerald N., Elkins, James G. and Michener, Joshua (2023). Sphingobium lignivorans sp. nov., isolated from river sediment downstream of a paper mill. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 73(2), doi: 10.1099/ijsem.0.005704

  8. Senn, S., Bhattacharyya, S., Presley, G., Taylor, A. E., Nash, B., Enke, R. A., Barnard-Kubow, K. B., Ford, J., Jasinski, B., & Badalova, Y. (2022). The Functional Biogeography of eDNA Metacommunities in the Post-Fire Landscape of the Angeles National Forest. Microorganisms, 10(6); 1218. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms10061218

  9. Bleem, A., Kuatsjah, E., Presley, G. N., Hinchen, D. J., Zahn, M., Garcia, D. C., Michener, W. E., Konig, G. Tornesakis, K., Allemann, M. N., Giannone, R. J., McGeehan, J. E., Beckham, G., Michener, J. K. (2022). Discovery, characterization, and metabolic engineering of Rieske non-heme iron monooxygenases for guaiacol O-demethylation, Chem Catalysis, 2, p. 1-23. 

  10. Presley, G., Cappellazzi, J. and Eastin, I. (2022). Durability of Thermally Modified Western Hemlock Lumber against Wood Decay Fungi. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 5, Article 813080.