Agenda 2006: 10th Annual NEMO Meeting

Grey Towers

Milford, PA

October 31st to November 1st



Tuesday, October 31st


7:30 Breakfast at Grey Towers
8:15 Registration
8:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks:  Harry Valentine


Session I: John Brooks, Moderator


9:00 A hierarchical approach for scaling forest inventory and fuels data from local to landscape scales in the Chihuahuan Desert borderlands Helen M. Poulos, Ann E. Camp and Richard G. Gatewood
9:25 Measurement variability error for volume change estimation   James A. Westfall and Paul L. Patterson
9:50 Regional forest inventory using an airborne profiling LiDAR  Ross Nelson
10:15 Break
10:45 Will cruising in the future be pointless?  Harry V. Wiant, Jr.
11:10 Thirty-six degrees of longitude and ten degrees of latitude: Building the NRS-FIA analytical science program  William H. McWilliams
11:35 LOESS models for empirical yield curve development  John Kershaw
12:00 Lunch at Grey Towers

Session II: Harry Valentine, Moderator


1:00 An improved trigonometric approach to height determination  Don C. Bragg
1:25 A comparison of several sampling methods in partially-harvested stands in Maine  Bob Lindemuth
1:50 Monitoring in the new Northern Research Station  Charles T. Scott and James A. Westfall
2:15 Recovering forest parameters from canopy height observations  Lauri Mehtätalo and Jukka Nyblom
2:40 The use of photography techniques to perform angle count sampling under a range of stand conditions  Adam R. Dick
3:05 Break
3:35 Assessing radial sampling intensity based intra- and inter-tree variation in ring-width correlations  Eddie Bevilacqua
4:00 A growth and yield simulator for managed, uneven-aged northern hardwood stands in New York  Diane Kiernan and Eddie Bevilacqua


Wednesday, November 1st


7:30 Breakfast at Grey Towers

Session III: John Brooks, Moderator


8:30 Exploring spatial heterogeneity of model residuals for different spatial patterns of tree locations  Nirmal Subedi, Lianjun Zhang and Haijin Shi
8:55 Adventures in using FIA data for the U.S. forestland greenhouse gas emissions and sinks inventory  Linda S. Heath and James E. Smith
9:20 Bayesian analysis of redwood LAI data  Ed Green
9:45 Red Pine: Are localized tree volume equations needed for West Virginia  Lichun Jiang and John Brooks
10:10 Break
10:40 Modelling effects of overstory density and competing vegetation on tree height growth  Christian Salas, Albert R. Stage, Andrew P. Robinson
11:05 Reducing variance for radial line sampling coverage estimates   Thomas B. Lynch
11:30 Looking for the plateau in Douglas-fir annual volume increment   David Hyink
12:00 Lunch at Grey Towers & Adjourn
1:00 Tour of Grey Towers (optional)


Participants 2006


Eddie Bevilacqua SUNY-ESF
Bill Bragg Mason, Bruce and Girard
Don Bragg USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station
John Brooks West Virginia University
Ian Cameron Yale University
Bill Carr Laser Technology, Inc.
Adam Dick Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, UNB
Jeff Gove USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Ed Green Rutgers
Roger Greene Mason, Bruce and Girard
Linda Heath USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Dave Hyink Weyerhaeuser
Lichun Jiang West Virginia University
John Kershaw Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, UNB
Diane Kiernan SUNY-ESF
Bob Lindemuth University of Maine
Tom Lynch Oklahoma State University
Zhihai Ma SUNY-ESF
David Marshall Weyerhauser
Lauri Mehtätalo Yale Univeristy & Finnish Forest Research Institute
Will McWilliams USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Ross Nelson Code 923, Biospheric Sciences Branch NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
Helen Poulos Yale University
Christian Salas Yale University & Universidad de La Frontera, Chile
John Stanovick USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Nirmal Subedi SUNY-ESF
Jim Thrower Jim Thrower & Associates Ltd.
Harry Valentine USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
James Westfall USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Harry Wiant Penn State
Lianjun Zhang SUNY-ESF