Agenda 2007: 11th Annual NEMO Meeting

Crowne Plaza Resort & Golf Club

Lake Placid, NY

October 17th to 18th



Wednesday, October 17th


11:00 Registration
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 1:15 Welcome and Opening Remarks:  Eddie Bevilacqua

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Session I: Eddie Bevilacqua, Moderator


1:15 - 1:45 Growth, Mortality and Removals Estimation From FIA data  Paul Van Deusen
1:45 - 2:15 Detecting Land-use Change Effects on Regional Forest Aboveground Biomass Estimates Using Remote Sensing  Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath And Mark J. Ducey
2:15 - 2:45 Propagating probability distributions of stand variables using sequential Monte Carlo methods  Jeff Gove
2:45 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 3:45 Local Modeling of Relationships between Tree Variables by Bayesian Geographically Weighted Regression  Nirmal Subedi and Lianjun Zhang
3:45 - 4:15 Timber product inventories in the Nigerian rain forest  W. T. Zakrzewski
4:15 - 4:45 Incorporating Stand Characteristics In Modeling Height-Diameter Relationship  Mahadev Sharma
4:45 - 5:15 Estimating mortality with longitudinal data using generalized estimating equations  Diane Kiernan
Dinner on your own


Thursday, October 18th


7:30 Continental Breakfast
8:25 Welcome and News  Lianjun Zhang

Session II: Lianjun Zhang, Moderator


8:30 - 9:00 Two-somes, three-somes, and more-somes: The joy of copulae in forestry  John Kershaw
9:00 - 9:30 How do you compute forest area estimates for a state?  Rei Hayashi
9:30 - 10:00 Forest Vegetation Simulator Ingrowth Tool: Incorporating ingrowth into growth and yield projections  Justin Arseneault
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:00 Generalized Horizontal Point Sampling  Mark Ducey
11:00 - 11:30 What is the variance of VBAR?  Harry Valentine
11:30 - 12:00 Forest Fuels Inventory:Measurement Repeatability and Error Identification  Jim Westfall and Christopher W. Woodall
noon Lunch


Participants 2007


Justin Arseneault UNB
Eddie Bevilacqua SUNY-ESF
Ernest Bowling James W. Sewall Company
Bill Bragg
Bill Carr Laser Technology, Inc.
Mark Ducey UNH
Jeff Gove USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Rei Hayashi NCASI
John Kershaw Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, UNB
Diane Kiernan SUNY-ESF
Junfeng Lu SUNY-ESF
Zhihai Ma SUNY-ESF
Mahadev Sharma OMNR
Nirmal Subedi SUNY-ESF
Harry Valentine USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Paul Van Deusen NCASI
James Westfall USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
Wojciech Zakrzewski OMNR
Lianjun Zhang SUNY-ESF
Daolan Zheng UNH