Responsibilities

• Support multidisciplinary department research via geospatial and statistical data analysis and composition of research manuscripts, technical reports, and grant proposals. 
• Provide research-based undergraduate instruction.

Selected Publications

Snyder, B., C. Barton, M. Lacki, S. Price, and Z. Hackworth. 2024. Bat activity on high elevation reforested coal mines in the Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia. Ecological Restoration 42(2):108-122.

Hackworth, Z.J., J.M. Lhotka, T.O. Ochuodho, and W.R. Thomas. 2024. Informing Producers in a Nontraditional Maple Syrup Region: Red Maple and Sugar Maple Production Parameters in Kentucky. Forest Science 70:165-178.

Sena, K.L, Z.J. Hackworth, J. Maugans, and J.M. Lhotka. 2023. Twenty years of urban reforestation: Overstory development structures understory plant communities. Sustainability 15(3):1985.

Hackworth, Z.J., J.M. Felch, S.M. Murphy, and J.J. Cox. 2022. Detectability of Common Ravens (Corvus corax) in Central Appalachian Cliff Habitat, USA. Ecosphere 13:e4148.

Patterson, C.P., Z.J. Hackworth, J.M. Lhotka, and J.W. Stringer. 2022. Initial light and regeneration patterns following expanding-gap irregular shelterwood in Quercus-dominated stands of the Northern Cumberland Plateau, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 505:119871.

Sena, K., Z.J. Hackworth, and J.M. Lhotka. 2021. Forest Development over a Twenty-Year Chronosequence of Reforested Urban Sites. Forests 12(5):614.

Dement, W.T., Z.J. Hackworth, J.M. Lhotka, and C.D. Barton. 2020. Plantation Development and Colonization of Woody Species in Response to Post-Mining Spoil Preparation Methods. New Forests 51(6):965–984.

Hackworth, Z.J., J.M. Lhotka, and J.W. Stringer. 2020. Midstory Removal Facilitates Growth but Reduces Competitiveness of Oak Reproduction Prior to and After Shelterwood Establishment Cutting. Forest Science 66(3):371–381.

Hackworth, Z.J., J.J. Cox, J.M. Felch†, and M.D. Weegman. 2019. A Growing Conspiracy: Recolonization of Common Ravens (Corvus corax) in Central and Southern Appalachia, USA. Southeastern Naturalist 18(2):281–296.

Hackworth, Z.J., J.M. Lhotka, J.J. Cox, C.D. Barton, and M.T. Springer. 2018. First-Year Vitality of Reforestation Plantings in Response to Herbivore Exclusion on Reclaimed Appalachian Surface-Mined Land. Forests 9(4):222.