Agenda 2008: 12th Annual NEMO Meeting

Bar Harbor Hotel -- Bluenose Inn

90 Eden Street

Bar Harbor, ME

October 8th and 9th



For more information, please also see: Agenda 2008


Wednesday, October 8th


10:00 - 10:30 Registration
10:30 - 10:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks:  Tom Brann and Larry Gering

Session I: Tom Brann, Moderator


10:45 - 11:15 A general solution to the nearest-tree sampling method, and a geometric insight into the k-nearest tree method   Kim Iles
11:15 - 11:45 50 years of equipment   Bill Carr
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch

Session II: Larry Gering, Moderator


1:15 - 1:45 Efficiency of some sampling alternatives to estimate tree- and stand-level foliage biomass   Aaron Weiskittel
1:45 - 2:15 Bitterlich's angle count sampling and pictures of the key players in the development of angle count sampling (variable plot sampling)   John Bell
2:15 - 2:45 Stereology and radial line sampling   Tom Lynch
2:45 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 3:45 Imputation of missing information in forest inventories   Aimeé Rockhill
3:45 - 4:15 The stand structure generator - further explorations into the joy of copula   John Kershaw
4:15 - 4:45 Randomized graph sampling: concepts and applications  Mark Ducey
5:30 - 6:00 Reception (cash bar)
6:00 Dinner


Thursday, October 9th


7:30 Coffee and krumpets
8:25 - 8:30 Welcome and updates  Tom Brann and Larry Gering

Session III: Larry Gering, Moderator


8:30 - 9:00 NIMAC and the intensification of FIA   Chip Scott
9:00 - 9:30 Development and evaluation of regional taper and volume equations for the primary conifer species in the Acadian region   Rongxia Li
9:30 - 10:00 Devloping a diameter distribution based, whole stand growth projection system for Pinus occidentalis stands in La Sierra, Dominican Republic   Santiago Bueno
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:00 Does bandwidth selection really matter in application of geographically weighted regression   Zhihia Ma
11:00 - 11:30 The great systematic sampling controversy of 2008   Harry Valentine


Participants 2008


John Bell John Bell & Associates
Eddie Bevilacqua SUNY-ESF
Ernest Bowling James W. Sewall Company
Tom Brann University of Maine
Santiago Bueno SUNY-ESF
Bill Carr Laser Technology, Inc.
Adam Dick University of New Brunswick
Mark Ducey UNH
Nancy Filgate
Larry Gering Clemson University
Jeff Gove USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Roger Greene Mason, Bruce & Girard, Inc.
Tim Gregoire Yale University
Kim Iles Kim Iles & Associates, Ltd.
John Kershaw University of New Brunswick
Rongxia Li Univeristy of Maine
Tom Lynch Oklahoma State University
Zhihai Ma SUNY-ESF
Scott Robinson Prentiss & Carlisle
Aimeé Rockhill NC State University
Chip Scott USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Guillaume Therien
Harry Valentine USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Aaron Weiskittel University of Maine
Jim Wilson Timberline Natural Resource Group