Marlene Cramer
Scientist - Wood Properties
Silviculture, wood properties and genetics
Northern Research Station, Roslin, Midlothian, EH25 9SY.
About Marlene Cramer
Marlene studied Wood Science and Fibre Materials Technology at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. She has more than six years experience doing wood research across four continents, and is currently completing a PhD on the strength grading of UK hardwoods at Edinburgh Napier University.
What Marlene does
As part of the Tree and Wood Properties Team, Marlene studies the properties of UK Timbers and oversees the wood testing and processing facilities at NRS, from testing in forests through to wood processing and timber testing in a lab. Current areas of particular interest are characterising the timber properties of emerging species grown in the UK, development of faster methods to characterise and measure wood properties from trees, model the impact of a changing climate on tree and timber properties, and understand the risk our future climate might pose to our timber resource.