Educational Background
B.A. in French and Spanish from San José State University, California
Master's of Science in Education from the University of Miami, Florida
Ph.D. in Geography at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey

Research Interest
Marla R. Emery is a Research Geographer with the Northeastern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service, where her research focuses on the role of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) in household economies and other direct human-forest interactions. She conducted the first comprehensive study of contemporary NTFP use in the United States, for which she spent a year in Michigan's Upper Peninsula conducting ethnographic research that documented the material uses of 138 products from over 80 botanical species and the livelihood practices associated with them. She is currently repeating that work in the northeastern United States as well as conducting research on fine-scale land use in the Adirondack Park region of New York. Dr. Emery also serves as Adjunct Associate Professor in the University of Vermont Department of Geography. Her past duties with the Forest Service have included developing an agenda for research on the human dimensions of global environmental change for the Forest Service's Northern Global Change Program.

Representative Publications
Emery, Marla; Martin, Suzanne; Dyke, Alison. 2006. Wild Harvests from Scottish Woodlands, Social, cultural and economic values of contemporary non-timber forest products. Forestry Commission, Edinburgh. i-vii, 40 p.

Emery, Marla R., Clare Ginger, and James L. Chamberlain. 2006. Migrants, Markets, and Management of Natural Resources in Western North Carolina. In Furuseth, Owen J. and Heather A. Smith (eds.). The New South: Latinos and the Transformation of Place. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing.

Martin, Suzanne and Marla R. Emery. 2005. Wild Harvests From Scottish Woodlands: An Exploration of the Health and Wellbeing Benefits of Non-Timber Forest Products Collection and Use. In: Gallis, C. 2005. 1st European Cost E39 Conference: Forests, Trees, Human Health and Wellbeing: Proceedings. Siokis, Thessaloniki.

Pierce, Alan R. and Marla R. Emery. 2005. The Use of Forests in Times of Crisis: Ecological Literacy as a Safety Net. Forests, Trees and Livelihoods 15/3:249-252.

Emery, Marla R. and Alan R. Pierce. 2005. Interrupting the Telos: Locating Subsistence in US Forests. Environment & Planning A 37/6:981-993.

Emery, Marla R., Clare Ginger, Siri Doble, and Michael R. B. Giammusso. 2004. Family and Floral Greens Gathering. In Practitioner: Newsletter of the National Network of Forest Practitioners. May 2004/22:23-25.

Emery, Marla R., Clare Ginger, Siri Doble, and Michael R. B. Giammusso. 2004. Familia y Brocheros. In Practitioner: Newsletter of the National Network of Forest Practitioners. May 2004/22:26-28.