Agenda: Ninth Annual Northeastern Forest Mensurationist Meeting
  Stone House, Freeport Maine
 
November 2-3, 2005


Wednesday, November 2nd...

    10:00  
Registration
    Noon  
Lunch at the Stone House
    1:00     Welcome and Opening Remarks: Tom Brann

Session I: Tom Brann, moderator

1:15
A GIS-based model to define the urban/rural interface  LR Gering, TS Eddins and MW Marek
1:40
Comparative analysis of forest classification in forest managment information databases  Nirmal Subedi
2:05
Flexible software for generating harvest scheduling input data  Paul Van Deusen
2:30
Using HabPlan for carbon scheduling Jonathan Aggett
2:55
Break
3:30
Estimating states, parameters and gap-filling eddy-covariance data Jeff Gove and Dave Hollinger
3:55
Cross-sectional area growth versus crown length: deductions from theory  Harry Valentine and Annikki Mäkelä
4:20
Mixed-effects models for a directional response: A case study with loblolly pine microfibril angle Lewis Jordan
4:45
Sampling with an airborne LiDAR profiler - LIS variance estimators  Ross Nelson
5:10
Lidar variance discussion (and refreshments!) Tim Gregoire and Ross Nelson

    6:30    Lobster and Clam Bake



Thursday, November 3rd...

    7:30   Continental breakfast
    8:25   Welcome and News Update: Tom Brann  
 
Session II: Harry Valentine, moderator

8:30
A simulator for uneven-aged northern hardwood stands Diane Kiernan
8:55
Projection error components of site index and other projection models  Chengcai Ni
9:20
Stand-level mortality functions: Data distributions and regression models  David Affleck
9:45
Tree crown collisions and their role in crown shyness and forest stand development Mark Rudnicki
10:10
Break
10:40
Calendar versus age-based yield curves: Does it make a difference? Elizabeth McGarrigle
11:05
Geographically weighted growth models  Mark Ducey
11:30
A comparison of alternative methods for estimating the self-thinning boundary  Lianjun Zhang, Jeff Gove and Linda Heath

    12:00   Lunch at the Stone House

Session III: Mark Ducey, moderator

1:15
Business Meeting (Please attend!)
1:30
Snag Inventory: Field efficiency and bias of sampling methods  Rob Kenning
1:55
Pushing BAF to the limit  John Kershaw
2:20
Book preview: Sampling Strategies for Natural Resources and the Environment  Tim Gregoire
2:45
Linking downed woody material production and decay rates to an operational model of loblolly pine growth and yield Phil Radtke
3:10
Break
3:40
Mix, match and calibrate  Tom Brann
4:05
Integrating taper and volume estimation for eastern species in a stand-based inventory system Steve Fairweather
4:40
Use of photography to measure stand-level parameters Adam Dick


Participants 2005
 

David Affleck     

Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Jonathan Aggett
NCASI - SMDG
Eddie Bevilacqua
SUNY-ESF
Ernest Bowling
James W. Sewall Company
Bill Bragg
Mason, Bruce and Girard, Inc.
Tom Brann
University of Maine, Orono
Adam Dick
Faculty of Forestry and ENvironmental Management, University of New Brunswick
Mark Ducey
University of New Hampshire
Steve Fairweather
Principal/Biometrician, Mason, Bruce, and Girard, Inc.
Sara Francescki
Yale University
Larry Gering
Clemson University
Jeff Gove
USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Roger Greene
Mason, Bruce and Girard, Inc.
Tim Gregoire Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Louis Jordan
USFS SRS and University of Georgia
Rob Kenning
Graduate Student, University of New Hampshire
John Kershaw Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick
Diane Kiernan Graduate student, SUNY ESF
Bob Lindermuth
University of Maine
Mike McDonald
New Brunswick Dept. of Natural Resources
Ross Nelson Code 923, Biospheric Sciences Branch NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Chengcai Ni SUNY-ESF
Elizabeth McGarrigle
Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick
Phil Radtke
Virginia Tech
Mark Rudnicki
Department of Natural Resources Management and Engineering, Univ. of Connecticut
Haijin Shi
LandVest, Inc.
Nirmal Subedi SUNY-ESF
Harry Valentine USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Paul Van Deusen Senior Scientist, NCASI - SMDG
Dale Wilson
New Brunswick Dept. of Natural Resources
Lianjun Zhang SUNY-ESF

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