Pacific Southwest Research Station

Research Interests/Duties

1980-Present. Station Statistician for Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Albany, California. Currently Unit Leader for the PSW Environmental Statistics Unit. Performs statistical consulting and statistical reviews of manuscripts and study plans for all aspects of the Station's research programs in wildlife, timber, hydrology, entomology, urban forestry, fisheries, recreation, genetics, and fire. In addition, statistical-consulting support has been and continues to be provided for the State of California, State of Hawaii, Hawaii Nature Conservancy, Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Park Service.

1979-1980. Statistician for Rockwell International, Hanford, Washington. Designed and analyzed experiments concerning the storage of nuclear waste.

1978-1979. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Taught statistics and calculus to undergraduate engineers and introductory statistics courses to the general student population.

Selected Publications

Dunk, Jeffrey R., William J. Zielinski, Karen West, Kristin Schmidt, Jim Baldwin, Julie Perrochet, Kary Schlick, and Jan Ford. 2002. Distributions of Rare Mollusks Relative to Researved Lands in Northern California. Northwest Science, VOl. 76, No. 3, pages 249-256.

Baldwin, James A., Tim Max, Naomi Bentivoglio, Diane Evans Mack, Sherri Miller, Kim Nelson, C. John Ralph, Martin Raphael, Craig Strong, Chris Thompson, Ken Ostrom, and Randall Wilk. 2001. A Long-term Monitoring Plan for Marbled Murrelets at Sea Along the West Coast of the U.S. Invited talk presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings, August 5, 2001, Atlanta, Georgia.

Baldwin, James A. 1995. Home Range Estimation for Spotted Owls. Invited talk presented at the Regional Meetings at the Western North American Region of the Biometric Society, June 26-28, 1995, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.

Max, Timothy A.; Baldwin, James A.; Schreuder, Hans T. 1995. Sampling threatened and endangered birds in the Pacific Northwest. Invited paper at 1995 Joint Statistical Meetings, Orlando, Florida.

Lantican, Celso B.; Baldwin, James A. 1994. Training notes on design and analysis of forestry experiments. Notes for Research Methods Training Course for Pacific Island Countries, July 18-30, 1993, Apia, Western Samoa. Sponsored by Forest Research Support Programme For Asia and the Pacificand South Pacific Forestry Development Programme, United Nations. (Training was provided to forestry experts from 15 South Pacific countries at the University of the South Pacific, Alafua Campus, Apia, Western Samoa.

Baldwin, James A. 1993. Statistical Considerations for Agroforestry Studies. Invited paper published in Proceedings of the Workshop on Research Methodologies and Applications for Pacific Island Agroforestry, July 16-20, 1990, Kolonia, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia. Gen. Tech. Report PSW-GTR-140, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, pp. 16-20.

Azuma, David L.; Baldwin, James A.; Noon, Barry R. 1990. Estimating the Occupancy of Spotted Owl Habitat Areas by Sampling and Adjusting for Bias. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-124. Berkeley, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture; 9p.

Morse, Janet E.; Falanruw, Marjorie C.; Whitesell, Craig D.; Baldwin, James A. 1987. Fruit Bats (Megachiroptera) of the World: A Bibliography. Bibliographies and Literature of Agriculture No. 58, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.