Agenda: Third Northeastern Mensurationist Organization Meeting

August 25-26, 1999

The Harvard Forest

Petersham, MA

 

Wednesday,August 25^th

 

11:00         Registration

11:30 Lunch (provided)

 

1:00             Tim Gregoire (Yale): 3P/Poisson/PRN sampling

2:10            Paul Van Deusen (NCASI): Habitat-harvesting scheduling program

 

3:30 Mark Ducey (UNH): Modeling nutrition in intensively managed
            plantations

4:00 Jim Innes (UNH): Assessing operational uncertainty in stocking guides

 

4:30 Lianjun Zhang (ESF): Stand density management diagrams for mixed softwood forests in the Northeast

 

6:00 - 8:00 pm            Dinner (BBQ style) at Harvard Forest  (provided)

 

Thursday - August 26

6:30 - 7:30 am            Breakfast (provided)

8:00 Chris Cieszewski (U Georgia): Selected considerations in parameter estimation of self-referencing models

8:40 Fasheng Li (ESF): Modeling tree dbh and height distributions by bivariate distributions

9:20 Will McWilliams (USDA): An implementation plan for Maine's annual inventory

10:00 CoffeeBreak

10:30 Eddie Bevilacqua (ESF): Specific volume increment as a size-dependent measure of growth when studying competitive interference in large trees

11:10 Ernst Bowling (Sewall): Development of individual tree models at Great Northern Paper

12:00 Lunch (provided) and Business meeting

1:30 Harry Valentine (USDA): A switching model of bole taper

2:00 Open-topic/discussion.

Tim Gregoire: Integrated taper equations

Will McWilliams: Partial inventory estimation with annual inventories

3:10 Tour of Harvard Forest

4:30 pm        Adjourn