Dr. Fraver is currently an Associate Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of Maine, USA. Before taking his current position (August 2013), Dr. Fraver was a faculty member in the Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, a Research Ecologist with the US Forest Service Northern Research Station (2007-2012), and a Post-Doctoral Associate at Mid-Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden (2004-2006). His research is field- and laboratory-based and covers a broad range of ecological topics, including forest carbon dynamics, old-growth forest structure, climate-growth relationships of forest trees, and woody debris attributes.
Dr. Fraver has a B.S. degree (Biology) from The Pennsylvania State University, an M.S. (Forestry) from North Carolina State University, and a Ph.D. (Forest Resources) from the University of Maine.
