Agenda: Fifth Northeastern Mensurationist Organization Meeting

August 22-23, 2001

Fox State Forest

Hillsboro, NH

The following is the close to final agenda for both invited and contributed talks at this year’s meeting (updated 9-July-2001).

Wednesday, August 22^nd

11:00 Registration

12:00 Lunch on your own

Integrating Models and Management. (Moderator: Jeff Gove)

1:00 Bill Leak: J-Shaped and S-shaped Diameter Distributions: Models and Applications

1:30 Chuangmin Lui & Lianjun Zhang: A Finite Mixture Model for Describing Irregular Diameter Distributions of Forest Stands

2:00 Diane Kiernan: A Comparison of Species Growth Responses to Competition Levels at the Individual Tree Level--A Progress Report

2:30 Jim Innes, Mark Ducey, Jeff Gove and Jim Barrett: Do Traditional Size-density Metrics Reflect Stand Level Productivity in Eastern White Pine?

3:00 Break

Arcana, Miscellany and Bayes. (Moderator: Harry Valentine)

3:30 Jeff Gove: Balance: A System for Fitting DBH Distributions.

4:00 Ed Green: Bayesian Estimation of Stand Tables

4:30 Phil Radtke: Bayesian Melding for Model Calibration

Outdoor Barbeque: 5:30—7:30pm

Thursday Morning, August 23^rd

Innovative Applications in Inventory, Sampling and Modeling. (Moderator: Mark Ducey)

8:30 Ken Desmarais: Results of the New Hampshire Timber Harvest Assessment

9:00 Greg Jordan, Mark Ducey, Jeff Gove and Harry Valentine: Sausage Sampling: A Practical Modification of Horizontal Line Sampling for Inventorying Snags

9:30 Eddie Bevilacqua: Modeling the Effect of Competition on the Vertical Distribution of Bole Area Growth

10:00 Break

10:30 Haijin Shi and Lianjun Zhang: Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA) and Individual Tree Competition Indices

11:00 Paul Van Deusen: Issues Related to FIA Panel Creep

11:30 Voyteck Zakrzewski: Using a New Measure of Stand Height Structure for Developing Locally Valid Yield Curves

Field Trip (box lunch included).

We will take a tour of some of the Fox Forest Research and Demonstration areas highlighting marking for the following silvicultural methods in mixed oak-pine stands: cohort management, aesthetic high-grading, strip, group selection, selection, clear cutting and shelterwood. Trip hosted by Ken Desmarais.

Please contact mail:jgove #64 fs.fed.us Jeff Gove or Harry Valentine for more information.