Agenda: Fourth Northeastern Mensurationist Organization Meeting in Cooperation with the Midwest Mensurationists
October 4-6, 2000
The following is the proposed agenda for both invited and contributed talks at this year's meeting.
Wednesday, October 4th
11:00 Registration
12:00 Lunch (on your own)
1:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks: Mark Ducey
Mensuration for better management in the Midwest and Northeast.
Moderator: Mark Ducey
1:15 Ken Desmarais: Current biometric projects at the Caroline A. Fox research and demonstration forest
1:45 Tom Burk: Sample sizes for big baf cruising
2:15 Jim Flewelling: Height-age curves for planted stands of Douglas fir, with adjustments for density
2:45 Paul Van Deusen: Spatial habitat and harvest scheduling
3:15 Break: lemonade, iced tea. sodas, fruit juices, cookies
3:45 Steve Shifley: Assessing current and potential forest productivity in the North Central U.S.: An integrated research program
4:15 Jim Innes: Leaf area and stocking relations in eastern white pine
4:45 Ron McRoberts: Uncertainty in diameter growth model predictions
Thursday Morning, October 5th
Historical Perspectives on the State of the Art. Moderator:
Paul Van Deusen
8:00 Muffins, coffee, etc.
8:30 John Moser: Three P
9:00 Harold Burkhart: Past practices and future prospects for growth and yield modeling.
9:30 Harry Wiant: Reality of research: Planned, random or chaos?
10:00 Break: coffee, tea
Inventory methods.
Moderator: Paul Van
Deusen
10:30 Dale Solomon and Tom Brann: The Flex-Fiber system
11:00 Mark Hansen and Ron McRoberts: Remote sensing accuracy requirements for FIA estimation
11:30 Business meeting
12:00 BuffetLunch at Spruce Point Inn (menu below)
Thursday Afternoon, October 5th
Innovative quantitative applications. Moderator:
Lianjun Zhang
1:30 Mike Williams: A boundary reconstruction technique for circular fixed-area plots
2:00 Tom Lynch: Maximum likelihood estimation of parameters in a model for probability of achieving desired levels of regeneration in naturally occurring shortleaf pine stands
2:30 Don Bragg: A reformulation of importance value for ecological analysis
3:00 Break: lemonade, iced tea. sodas, fruit juices, cookies
3:30 Harry Valentine: Monte Carlo approaches to sampling forested tracts with lines or points
4:00 Veronica Lessard: Updating Indiana annual forest inventory and analysis plot data using province 222-eastern broadleaf forest diameter growth models
4:30 Mark Ducey: New approaches to boundary overlap
Thursday Evening, October 5th
6:30 Cocktails on the deck (open bar) at Spruce Point Inn
7:30 Banquet at Spruce Point Inn (menu below)
Friday Morning, October 6th
Emerging Issues.
Moderator: Harry
Valentine
8:00 Muffins, coffee, etc.
8:30 Ron McRoberts: Using landsat TM data and the k-nearest neighbor technique for large area volume estimation
9:00 Jim Smith and Linda Heath: Uncertainty and forest carbon budgets
9:30 Marie Louise Smith and Rich Hallett: Detecting forest nutrient status with remote sensing: Applications for predicting forest growth and health
10:00 Break: coffee, tea
10:30 Phil Radtke: Estimating canopy structure in broad-leaved forests with laser quadrants
Unsolved mysteries. Moderator:
Tom
Brann
11:00 Open forum
Luncheon Buffet Menu (Patriot's Room at noon)
Fresh garden vegetable soup with oyster crackers
Mixed garden greens with choice of two dressings
Pasta salad with fresh herbs
Japanese cold slaw--German potato salad
Italian hard salami, assorted domestic cheeses
Condiments. rolls, breads
Fudge brownies and fruit bowl
Iced tea, lemonade and tea service
Lobsterbake Menu (Patriot's Room at 7:30pm)
Maine lobster, charbroiled chicken and BBQ ribs
Steamed clams and seafood chowdah--yessah!
Corn on the cob and baby red new potatoes
Fresh baked breads and rolls
Caesar salad and mixed green salads
Potato salad, sliced tomatoes, olives, pickles
Coffee and tea service
Lemonade and iced tea station
Dessert buffet