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  • Bevers, Mike
  • Calkin, David
  • Ferguson, Dennis
  • Gottfried, Gerald
  • Graham, Russell
  • Hudak, Andrew
  • Jain, Theresa
  • Jones, Greg
  • Kent, Brian
  • Moisen, Gretchen
  • Turner, David
  • Collaborative Scientists

Forest Ecosystems Forests and woodlands are critical sources of water, natural resources, esthetic and recreation amenities, as well as wildlife habitat in the West. Forest Ecosystem research delves into the development and delivery of the scientific knowledge basis for natural resource management activities for sustaining and restoring forests and woodlands landscape health, biodiversity, productivity, and ecosystem processes.

David Calkin
Research Forester

See Also: Fire/Fuel, Social Sciences

Missoula Forestry Sciences Lab: Economics

Interests:

• Forestry

• Wildland fire economics

• Economics of fuel treatments

• Biomass utilization

• Economics of ecosystem management

• Multi-resource modeling

• Economics of fuel reduction treatments

• Joint production analysis

• Spatial modeling of silvicultural activities using heuristic optimization techniques

Geographical Areas: Western Montana; Northern and Intermountain Region lands.

Dennis Ferguson
Research Forester

Moscow Forestry Sciences Lab

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Interests:

• Silviculture

• Forest Ecosystem Processes

• Regeneration

• Grand fir mosaic reforestation

• Allelopathy

• Whitepark pine

• Western white pine

• Forest health

• Spruce budworm

• Pocket gophers

Geographical Areas: Northern Idaho; Northern Rocky Mountains.

Gerald Gottfried
Research Forester

SW Forest Science Lab, Flagstaff

Interests:

• Snowpack
• Douglas Fir, Ponderosa Pine Dwarf Mistletoes
• Logging damage
• Forest conservation

Geographical Areas: Arizona.

Russell Graham
Research Forester

See Also: Fire/Fuel

Moscow Forestry Sciences Lab

Interests:

• Forest productivity

• Landscape processes

• Forest organic material management

• Coarse woody debris

• Northern goshawk

• Hayman fire

Geographical Areas: Moscow, ID; Northern Rocky Mountains; Northern Idaho; Western Montana.

See Also: Fire/Fuel

Moscow Forestry Sciences Lab

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Interests:

• Landscape

• Fire and vegetation ecology

• Remote sensing

• Forest and rangeland ecosystem management

Geographical Areas: Moscow, Idaho.

Theresa Jain
Research Forester

See Also: Fire/Fuel

Moscow Forestry Sciences Lab

Interests:

• Fire suppression
• Woody fuel
• Surface fuel and fire severity
• Carbon sequestration
• Fuel reduction treatments
• Wood decomposition
• Disturbance ecology
• Vegetation response to landscapes
• Restoration
• Moist vs. dry forests

Geographical Areas: Interior West; Rocky Mountains.

Greg Jones
Research Forester

See Also: Fire/Fuel, Social Sciences

Missoula Forestry Sciences Lab: Economics

Interests:

• Management

• Developing and testing methodology and models for applying economic analysis at both project and landscape scales

• Economics of ecosystem management and planning, including the recent emphasis on fire and hazardous fuel management

Geographical Areas: Western Montana; Bitterroot National Forest.

Interests:

• Forest Management

• Formulating and solving spatial optimization models that reduce wildfire losses and wildlife species extirpations in a risk management context

• Research techniques to improve management of natural resource systems

Geographical Areas: Southwestern South Dakota.

Brian Kent
Supervisory Research Forester

Fort Collins Forestry Sciences Lab: Natural Resources

Interests:

• Forest Management & Planning

• National Forest Systems operations research analyst

• Computer software systems development manager

• Forest planning related research

• Characterize the risk perceptions of residents in the Wildland Urban Interface in Colorado, California and Oregon.

Geographical Areas: White River National Forest; Wildland Urban Interface in CO, OR, CA.

Gretchen Moisen
Research Forester

Ogden: Forest Inventory and Analysis Lab

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Interests:

• Evaluating standards using data collected from regional probabilistic monitoring programs

• Natural resources surveys

Geographical Areas: Northern Utah, including Fishlake National Forest; Wyoming; Central Rocky Mountains; Mexican Forest; Interior West.

David Turner
Mathematical Statistician

Logan Forestry Sciences Lab

Interests:

• Experimental and Sampling Designs
• Data Analysis
• Facilitate review of research study plans and manuscripts
• Study Methods Development and Adaptation
• Data Analysis
• Statistical Methods and Analysis
• Statistical Computing

Geographical Areas: Great Basin; Utah.

Dale Bartos
Research Ecologist

See Also: Ecology, Fisheries

Logan Forestry Sciences Lab -Ecological Restoration of Disturbed Lands Lab

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Interests:

• Ecology

• Aspen Stands on the Dixie and Fishlake National
  Forests

• Aspen specialist

Geographical Areas: Fort Collins, Colorado; Logan, Utah.

Samuel Cushman
Research Ecologist

See Also: Ecology, Wildlife Biology

Missoula Wildlife Genetics Lab

Interests:

• Landscape Ecology

• Landscape-level patterns of avian diversity in the Oregon Coast Range

• Testing the use of forest communities to evaluate biological diversity

Geographical Areas: Northern Idaho; Oregon Coast Range; Sikhote-alin Mountains of Russia Far East.

Interests:

• Integration of multivariate, multi-sensor, multi-temporal remotely sensed data and ecosystem models with annual time-series of FIA field data

• Accuracy assessment of remotely sensed data

• Sample surveys with time-series of multi-sensor remotely sensing and field reconnaissance in support of the global Forest Resources Assessment, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations

Geographical Areas: Alaska.

Emily Heyerdahl
Research Forester

See Also: Atmospheric Science, Fire/Fuel

Missoula Fire Lab

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Interests:

• Fire regimes

• Tree rings

• Fire drivers

• Climate

• Topography land-use

Geographical Areas: Idaho; Montana; Willamette Valley Oregon; Washington; Utah; California; British Columbia Canada; Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico; Eastern Nevada; Blue Mountains Oregon and Washington.

Ned Klopfenstein
Research Plant Pathologist

See Also: Fire/Fuel, Plant Pathology

Moscow Forestry Sciences Lab

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Interests:

• Forest Pathology

• Molecular diagnostics of forest microbes

• Population genetics

• Phylogenetics

• Environmental influence on woody plant defense system, host/parasite, plant symbioses

Geographical Areas: Moscow, ID; Lincoln, NE; Ames, IA.

John Mitchell
Rangeland Scientist

See Also: Rangeland Management, Social Sciences

Fort Collins Forestry Sciences Lab: Natural Resources

Interests:

• Effects of urban development and subdivisions on plant communities and rangelands in the Rocky Mountains

• Working to develop consistent, acceptable measures of rangeland's long-term contributions to society

• Assessing the status of U.S. rangelands nationally

Geographical Areas: Rocky Mountains; Big Cimarron Watershed; Southern Colorado.

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