Agenda: First Northeastern Mensurationist Organization Meeting
August 20-21, 1997
The Urban Forestry Center
Portsmouth, NH
Registration:
Wednesday 11am to 1:30pm
Wednesday
afternoon (1:30pm to 4:30pm).
Session I. Perspectives on the Proposed Annual Forest Inventory Systems (AFIS/SAFIS) (Moderator: Jeff Gove)
An
Overview of the "Annual Forest Inventory System" (AFIS)
Andy Gillespie, USDA FS, Radnor (30min)
An
Overview of the "Southern Annual Forest Inventory System" (SAFIS)
Paul Van Deusen, NCASI (30min)
Perspectives
on Annual Information from the State of Maine
Chuck Gadzik, MFS (20min)
Perspectives
on Annual Information from Consulting
Dave Edson, J.W. Sewall Company (20min)
Perspectives
on Annual Information from Industry
Ken Laustsen, GNP Co. (20min)
A
healthy break
Discussion
Business Session: Informal discussion of the future of meetings of this type, how they might be structured, frequency of occurrence, hosting for the next meeting, is the first meeting the last, etc.
Thursday
Morning (8am to 12 noon).
Session II. The Status of Mensuration/Biometrics in the Northeast-Where are the Young Graduate Students and What is the Future Need in the Northeast? (Moderator: Harry Valentine)
Motivation
Harry Wiant, SAF (30min)
The
New Hampshire Story Jim Barrett, UNH (20 min)
New
York's Situation Lianjun Zhang, SUNY (20min)
New
Jersey Line Ed Green, Rutgers (20min)
Maine
Event Tom Brann, UMO (20min)
Discussion
A
healthy break
Session III. Contributed Papers. (Moderator: Dale Solomon)
"USDA
Forest Service Mapped Plot Design: History and Research Issues"
Chip Scott, USDA FS, Delaware (30min)
"Density
Management Diagrams for Northeastern Forest Types"
Lianjun Zhang, SUNY (30min)
Lunch
(on your own)
Thursday Afternoon (1:30pm to 4:30pm).
"Bayesian
Sampling"
Ed Green, Rutgers (30min)
"PipeStem:
Overview and Demo"
Harry Valentine, USDA FS (30min)
A
healthy break
Session IV. Software Demonstrations. (Moderator: Jim Barrett)
Data
Recorder Software
Chip Scott, USDA FS, Delaware
Flex
and Fiber: Flexible Forest Inventory and Growth Modeling for the Northeast
Tom Brann, UMO
Dale Solomon, USDA FS, Durham
Wrap-Up: Final thoughts to take home and suggestions for next year.