Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources
2001 Faculty Activities Report Web Site
For Chris J. Cieszewski
Last modified 2-15-2002.
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NAME |
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% Service |
% Admin. |
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Chris J. Cieszewski |
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100 |
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Contact Hours per Required
Course
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Total Contact Hours for
Required
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Total Hours |
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12 |
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Contact Hours per Elective
Courses
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Total Contact Hours for
Electives
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Student Advisement
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Course No. |
Semstr |
Cr. Hours |
#Students |
#Hrs. Lab |
% Partic. |
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FORS 8982 |
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FORS 9000 |
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Contact Hours per Graduate
Course
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Course Description |
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FORS 8982 |
2 x 3 x 1 = 6 |
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FORS 9000 |
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Total Graduate Contact
Hours
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Total Hours |
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12 |
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Major Prof - Masters
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Students |
Note |
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Roger Lowe |
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Major Prof - PhD
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Students |
Note |
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Chengcai Ni |
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Advisory Committee -
Masters
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Students |
Note |
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Roger Lowe |
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Advisory Committee - PhD
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Students |
Note |
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Hector De Los Santos-Posadas |
[Forest Resources] |
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Chengcai Ni |
[Forest Resources] |
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Chuck Rose |
[Forest Resources] |
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Sammy Yatich |
[Forest Resources] |
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Thesis and Dissertation
Read
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Theses |
Dissertations |
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Draft of Ph.D. Thesis by Chuck Rose |
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Activity |
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Presented research and moderated Growth and Yield session at the "Forest modeling for Ecosystem Management, Forest Certification, and Sustainable Management" conference, held in Vancouver, Canada. |
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Have collaborated with Dr. Ana Amaro, Instituto Superior de Gestao, Lisboa, Portugal, on growth modeling of eucalyptus in Portugal. |
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Have collaborated with Dr. Dave Tait, Department of Forest Management, UBC, Canada, on analysis techniques for inventory projection models. |
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Have collaborated with Dr. William Carmean, Faculty of Forestry, University of Lakehead, Ontario, Canada, on data analysis for inventory projection models; |
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Have collaborated with Dr. M. Zasada (currently a postdoc here as a result of this collaboration), Faculty of Forestry, Warsaw Agriculture University, Poland. |
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Have collaborated with Dr. B. Klapec, Faculty of Forestry, University of Agriculture in Warsaw, Poland. |
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In Press/Submitted Books
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Published Articles/Book
Chapters
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Author(s)-Year-Title-Citation text-Identifier Note |
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Cieszewski, C.J. 2001. Three methods of deriving advanced dynamic site equations demonstrated on Inland Douglas-fir site curves. Can. J. Forest Res. 31 (1): 165-173. [Journal Article]. |
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Cieszewski, C.J. 2001. Inventory updates and related topics - From imputations to mixed models. Forest Science 47 (3): 285-286. [Introduction to Forest Science Special Issue]. |
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Cieszewski, C.J., M. Zasada, R. F. Daniels, M.L. Clutter, B.E. Borders. 2001. Long-term sustainability analysis of wood supply in Georgia - Preliminary Approach. IUFRO conference titled: 'Forest modeling for Ecosystem Management, Forest Certification, and Sustainable Management', held in Vancouver, Canada, Aug. 12--18. [Conference Paper]. |
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Borders, B.E., W.M. Harrison, B.D. Shiver, Y. Zhang, C. Cieszewski, M. Clutter, R.F. Daniels. 2001. Growth and yield models for loblolly pine plantations in the Piedmont/Upper Coastal Plain of the Southeastern U.S. PMRC Technical Report. |
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Perela, D.A., R.A. Leary, C.J. Cieszewski. 1999. Self-thinning and stockability of the circumboreal aspens (Populus tremuloides Michx., and P-tremula L.). USDA For. Ser. NC R P (335): 1-16. [USDA Forest Service article]. |
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Rose, C. E. and C. J. Cieszewski. 2001. Solutions for reducing bias in inventory projections when using a system of incompatible site index and height models: demonstrated example uses Jack pine of Ontario. PMRC Technical Report 2001-3. 28 pp. |
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Zasada, M. and C.J. Cieszewski. 2001. Wielkoobszarowa inwentaryzacja lasow w Stanach Zjednoczonych Ameryki Polnocnej. Forest inventory in the United States of America. (In Polish, abstract in English). Sylwan 11: 105-120. (Peer reviewed journal article). |
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In Press/Submitted
Articles/Book Chapters
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Author(s)-Year-Title-Citation text-Identifier Note |
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Cieszewski, C.J. [In Press]. Comparing fixed- and variable-base-age polymorphic site equations having single versus multiple asymptotes. Forest Science 00: 00-00. . (Journal Article). |
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Cieszewski, C.J. [In Press]. Development of a well-behaved site index equation based on a modified Hosfeld IV function, Y^3=ax^m/(c+x^(m-1)), for interior B.C. subalpine fir (Abies lasicarpa (Hook. Nutt.). Forest Science. [Article accepted for publication in Forest Science]. |
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Cieszewski, C.J. [In Press]. A Simple Method for derivation of Biologically Based Implicit Growth Equations Presentation at the 12th International Conference of Mathematical and Computer Modeling & Scientific Computing in Chicago, IL, (August 2-4, 1999). [Conference Paper]. |
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Cieszewski, C.J. [In Review]. Method of Deriving Equations for Base-Age Variant Models. [Article intended for publication in Forest Science]. |
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Cieszewski, C.J., H. Burkhart. [In Press]. Measurements and Quantitative Methods and Management in forestry. J. Math. Model. Sci. Comp. 00: 00-00. [Special Issue of the Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing]. |
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Cieszewski, C.J., M.W. Harrison, S.W. Martin. [In Revision]. Methods for Unbiased Parameter Estimation In Self-Referencing Functions. [Article submitted to CJFR]. |
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Cieszewski, C.J., and G. Nigh. [In Review]. A Dynamic Equation for a Sitka Spruce Height-Age Model in British Columbia. [Article submitted to Forestry Chronicle.] |
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Cieszewski, C.J., D. Tait. [In Review]. Classification of Site Models. [Article submitted to Forest Science]. |
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Cieszewski, C.J., M. Zasada, B.E. Borders, M.L. Clutter, R.F. Daniels. [In Press]. Various Aspects Of Sustainability Analysis In Georgia. In R. McRoberts (Editor): USDA FS publication with articles from the Third Annual Forest Inventory & Analysis Symposium. Grand Traverse Resort, Traverse City, Michigan, Oct. 17, 18 [Peer reviewed article]. |
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Cieszewski, C.J., M. Zasada, R. Lowe, B.E. Borders, M.L. Clutter, R.F. Daniels. [In Press]. Long-term Sustainability Analysis of Fiber Supply in Georgia. USDA For. Ser. Report with articles from the 2001 Southern Mensurationists' Conference, Chattanooga, TN, Nov. 5-6. [Conference paper]. |
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Cieszewski, C.J., M. Zasada, B.E. Borders, R.F. Daniels, M.L. Clutter. [In Review]. Preliminary sustainability analysis of long-term fiber supply in Georgia. [Article submitted to Southern Journal of Applied Forestry]. |
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Harrison, W.M., C.J. Cieszewski, S.W. Martin, M. Zasada, B.E. Borders. [In Press]. Updated Base Age Invariant Height Growth Models for Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda, L.) Based on Intensively Managed Plantation Data. USDA For. Ser. Report with articles from the 2001 Southern Mensurationists' Conference, Chattanooga, TN, Nov. 5-6, 2001 [Conference Paper]. |
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Rose, C., C.J. Cieszewski, W. Carmean. [In Review]. Methods for Avoiding the Impacts of Incompatible Site Index and Height Prediction Models: Examples using Jack Pine in Ontario. [Article submitted to Forestry Chronicle]. |
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Zasada, M., C.J., Cieszewski, B.E. Borders, M.L. Clutter, R.F. Daniels, R. Lowe. [In Press]. Selected technical aspects of a statewide forest resource modeling project in Georgia. USDA For. Ser. Report with articles from the 2001 Southern Mensurationists' Conference, Chattanooga, TN, Nov. 5-6. [Conference Paper]. |
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Presentations at
Meetings/Abstracts
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Author(s)-Year-Title-Citation text-Identifier Note |
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Cieszewski, C.J., I. Moss. 2001. GADA - A Simple Method for Derivation of Dynamic Equation. Western Mensurationists Conference, Klamath, OR. [Conference technical presentation]. |
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Cieszewski, C.J., M. Zasada. 2001. Long-term sustainability analysis of wood supply in Georgia - Preliminary Approach. [Conference paper]. |
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Cieszewski, C.J., M. Zasada. 2001. Various Aspects Of Sustainability Analysis In Georgia. Presentation at the Third Annual Forest Inventory & Analysis Symposium. Grand Traverse Resort, Traverse City, Michigan, Oct. 17, 18 & 19, 2001. [Conference paper] |
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Cieszewski, C.J., M. Zasada. 2001. Long-term Sustainability Analysis of Fiber Supply in Georgia. Presentation at the 2001 Southern Mensurationists' Conference, Chattanooga, TN, Nov. 5-6, 2001. [Conference paper] |
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Bitterlich, W., C. Cieszewski, K. Iles, D. Marshall. 2001. Touching the History of Variable Plot Sampling. Western Mensurationists Conference, Klamath Falls, OR, June 25-26, 2001. [Presentation of a Short Film]. |
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Borders, B.E., M. Harrison, S. Martin, R.F. Daniels, C.J. Cieszewski, B. Shiver. 2001. New and improved loblolly pine growth and yield equations for the piedmont and upper coastal plain regions. 2001 Annual Meeting, Plantation Management Research Cooperative, Flinchum's Phoenix, May 15-16, 2001. [PMRC Meeting Presentation] |
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Harrison, W.M., C.J. Cieszewski. 2001. Revised Base-Age Invariant Height Growth Model for Loblolly Pine Based on Intensively Managed Plantation Data. Presentation at the 2001 Southern Mensurationists' Conference, Chattanooga, TN, Nov. 5-6, 2001. [Conference paper]. |
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Lowe, R., C.J. Cieszewski, H.J-H Whiffen, M. Zasada, B.E. Borders. 2001 Use of Landsat Thematic Mapper (LTM) satellite data in natural resource management. The 3rd International Conference on Geospatial Information in Agriculture and Forestry. [Conference Poster and PowerPoint presentation] |
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Rose, C., C.J. Cieszewski. 2001. Reducing biases in inventory projections that are based on incompatible height. and 2001 Annual Meeting, Plantation Management Research Cooperative, Flinchum's Phoenix, May 15-16, 2001. [PMRC meeting presentation] |
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Strub, M., C.J. Cieszewski. 2001. Fitting Criterion for Site Index Curves. Presentation at the 2001 Southern Mensurationists COnference, Chattanooga, TN, Nov. 5-6. [Conference paper] |
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Other Presentations
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Author(s)-Year-Title-Citation text-Identifier Note |
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Cieszewski, C.J. 2000. WebPages of the Southern Mensurationists at http://www.mensurationists.com. [Development and Maintaintanance of web pages]. |
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Cieszewski, C.J. 2001. The Southern Mensurationists’s Conference, Chattanooga, TN, USA. Nov. 5-6. [Co-organized and Moderated the conference]. |
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Cieszewski, C.J. 2001. Participated in the Regional FIA User Group Workshop and provided feedback on opportunities for improving timeliness and accuracy of the Annual Inventory based on use of growth and yield models. Regional FIA User Group Workshop. |
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Cieszewski, C.J. 2001. Fiber supply: long-term sustainability analysis of forest resoures in Georgia. WSFR, UGA. Dec. 6. [Presented Seminar]. |
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Cieszewski C.J. Forest Modelling for Ecosystem Management, Forest Certification, and Sustainable Management Conference. [Moderated Growht and Yield Session]. |
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Title: |
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Co-PI on the Growth and Yield Modeling Initiative |
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Co-PI (40%) on grant for analysis of forest
fragmentation |
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PI on TIP3 proposal titled "Long-term
sustainability analysis of forest resources in Georgia" |
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PI on Weyerhaeuser contract for PMRC for mixed model
analysis of self-referencing models |
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Submitted
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Title: |
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Development of the long-term sustainability analysis in
Georgia |
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Analysis of potential impact or riparian zones and road
buffers |
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Journal |
Description |
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Forest Science |
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Canadian Journal of Forest Research |
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Forestry Chronicle |
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Southern Journal of Applied Forestry |
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Journal of Forest Ecology and Management |
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Served as reviewer for private industry and consulting firms (e.g., Lignum Ltd. research report). |
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Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing |
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Guest Associate Editor for Forest Science and Lead Guest AE for a Special Section of Forest Science. |
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Grant Proposals
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Other Reviews
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Popular, Trade or Newspaper
Articles
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Continuing Education
Programs
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In-Service Training
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Statewide Meetings
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Local/County Meetings
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Meetings attended as
Advisor
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Submitted
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Other Reviews
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Forestry Committees
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Activity |
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Member of the SAFIS Technical Advisory Committee. |
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Participated in PMRC Committee Meetings |
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Introduced to the PMRC working group new methodologies for growth and yield modeling, thought the members of it, and assisted all, in implementation of the new methods |
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Member and a leader of the Southern Mensurationists’ Group organization. |
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Member of the recruitment committee for the Forest Landscape Planning and Harvest Scheduling position. |
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Students Activities, etc…
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Activity |
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Participated in Students' Convocations and other formal ceremonies. |
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Served as a Students' Marshal on a Convocation. |
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Served in the International Fellowship Program. |
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Teaching Continuing Ed.,
etc…
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Activity |
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Gave presentations at the 2001 Southern Mensurationists’ Conference that produced a several hundreds of Continuing Education Credit hours to the participants. |
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Guest Lectures, etc…
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Organizing Conferences,
etc…
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Activity |
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Co-organized the 2001 Southern Mensurationists’ Conference in Chattanooga TN, on Nov. 5-6, 2001. |
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Participated in organization of the IUFRO Conference in Vancounver, BC, Canada. |
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Society |
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Member of International Association of Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing. |
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International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. |
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Association of B.C. Professional Foresters. |
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Society of American Foresters. |
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Service on Professional
Society Committees
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Professional Awards, etc…
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Additional Meetings, etc…
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Meeting |
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Numerous meetings with Biometrics group at the Warnell School of Forest Resources, on regional priorities and current research towards meeting current needs in Forest Inventory in Georgia. |
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Service to local, state,
national agencies, etc…
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Achievement |
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Designed advanced study of fiber supply analysis in Georgia based on large-scale, spatially explicit, multiple long-term simulations of state level Fiber Supply dynamics. |
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Organized a Fiber Supply Assessment analysis team (including a postdoc, students, other faculty members, and other scientists) to research all major factors that may impact the Fiber Supply in Georgia, and to conduct the analysis of the fiber supply dynamics under various assumptions and forest management scenarios. |
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Developed 3-year grant proposal and successfully acquired some $100,000 for the first year funding to carry out the project on long-term sustainability analysis of Fiber Supply in Georgia. |
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Developed a database with the most up-to-date inventory information for Georgia. This database makes use of FIA/SAFIS data that is publicly available. I am now developing the capability to produce inventory summaries in tabular, graphical and spatial formats for any specific area of Georgia. |
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Adapted a set of yield and regeneration tables suitable for long-term, low resolution, Fiber Supply Assessment. |
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Conducted research to improve our understanding of the dynamics of fiber supply sustainability in Georgia's timber inventory by simulating inventory development with appropriate growth functions for the various stand types while imposing various levels of harvesting and regeneration activities. Specific scenarios will be developed to evaluate the sensitivity of the inventory to various levels of management intensity, harvests and regeneration. |
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Provided comprehensive outputs from low-resolution Fiber Supply simulations of various scenarios and assumptions for the state of Georgia, summarizing the results of the long-term sustainability analyses. |
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Presented the first year's results of the long-term Fiber Supply simulations at meetings and conferences and submitted manuscripts for publication. |
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Organized forest product industry support for the Fiber Supply Assessment and now there are twice as many industry collaborators and supporters for the Fiber Supply Assessment studies than there were last year. |
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Designed, solicited industry and financial support, and initiated a new Fiber Supply Assessment study rooted in Carbon budget and Carbon credits analysis. |
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Designed, solicited industry and financial support, and initiated a new Fiber Supply Assessment study rooted in large areas landscape visualization. |
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Initiated a new Fiber Supply Assessment study rooted in landscape level habitat management analysis with other faculty members from other disciplines. |
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Organized a few workshops with Drs. Carmean, Reimer, Strub, Heing, and selected faculty members, to advance our understanding of various aspects relating to the Fiber Supply Assessment in Georgia. |
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Contributed to the PMRC research, founded within the PMRC consortium a new research subgroup intended for research of Fiber Supply prediction methods in growth and yield modeling, and secured from Weyerhaeuser company $10,000 of new seed money funding for this subgroup that may attract more funding in the future from other companies. |
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Collaborated (40%) with Dr. Clutter on the successful USDA Forest Service grant proposal for analysis of forest fragmentation in Georgia. |
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Achieved the full Graduate Faculty status. |
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Overall, participated in obtaining grants for over $300,000. |
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Counting papers in press published 8 peer-reviewed publications in quality journals of international circulations and in USDA Forest Service Reports. |
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Counting papers in press published 6 conference papers and technical reports. |
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Carried editorial/reviewing duties as: a) Guest Associate Editor for Forest Science; b) Guest Associate Editor for a special section of Forest Science on quantitative analyses and G&Y; c) Guest Editor for a special issue of the Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing; and d) Edited multiple articles for 5 high quality international journals. |
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Continued developing cooperative research with universities and research organizations in Canada, Portugal, France, and Poland. |
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Presented a seminar at the WSFR, UGA and several presentations at FIA, IUFRO, the PMRC group, and Southern and Western Mensurationists' Conferences. |
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Taught a 3-unit graduate course on advance mathematical and statistical concepts in growth and yield modeling. |
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Supervised 2 graduate students, served on 4 graduate committees, participated in two Ph.D. qualifying exams, read one draft of Ph.D. dissertation, and 4 students' papers, and advised informally other graduate students on their research projects and data collections. |
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Successfully recruited 5 new graduate students. |
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Co-organized the Mensurationists' organization in the Southeast, co-organized and Co-chaired the 2001 Southern Mensurationists' Conference, and developed and maintained web pages facilitating communication among forest Mensurationists in the southeast (mensurationists.com). |
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Published research on the Internet and in PMRC reports and other USDA Forest Service reports making work available to the regional members of the forest products industry. |
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Objectives |
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Continue research of implicitly defined growth and yield models (relevant to my Fiber Supply Assessment bibliography) for use on forested lands and evaluate methods in which they are developed and applied. |
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Develop a database with the available most up-to-date inventory information for Georgia using FIA/SAFIS data that is publicly available and other data publicly available or solicited from private companies that would agree to complement the information contained in the FIA data. |
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Develop and simulate specific scenarios to evaluate the sensitivity of the inventory to various levels of management, harvests and regeneration assumptions and to improve understanding of the dynamics and sustainability of Georgia's timber inventory by simulating inventory development over time using the OPTIONS software. |
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Develop research and analysis program for inventory updates and simulations in Georgia. |
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Continue developing standard procedures that can be used for estimation of these errors and their distributions in applications related to inventory projections. |
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Continue developing and publishing methodologies for derivation of the well-behaved inventory projection models. |
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Develop and publish generic, theoretical implicitly defined models for different applications relating to inventory projections. |
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Develop and publish empirical implicitly defined models to meet current demands and needs relating to inventory updating and forecasting in the region and elsewhere using existing or collected data. |
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Research and analyze commonalities and merits between the nonlinear mixed effects models and the implicitly defined models. |
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Identify potentially dangerous or costly misconceptions or malpractices in the field of implicitly defined modeling and research the sources of problems and suggest solutions. |
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Examine opportunities for improving inventory update procedures using proper development of well-behaved, biologically based implicitly defined models. |
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Investigate propagation of different distributions of inventory errors in inventory projections using non-linear implicitly defined models. |
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Continue to publish examples of improved developments for implicitly defined models that exist in the literature. |
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Contribute to professional and public education in all areas of understanding of the implicitly defined models and their uses through public speaking and technology transfer and research publications. |
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Acquire or collect data necessary for the above outlined points. |
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Establish Internet-based information processing center for the annual inventory updates. |
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Establish and implement tech-transfer and communication means for the newly developed technologies. |
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Develop a web site to help disseminate the information that is developed within the Fiber Supply Assessment program. |
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Develop a database with the most up-to-date inventory information in southeastern Georgia using spatially explicit inventory data from industrial cooperators in conjunction with other spatially explicit data (e.g., water resources, roads, urban/suburban areas). |
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Evaluate the effects of specific environmental constraints (e.g. maximum clear-cut size, adjacency and green-up constraints, etc.) on the structure and development of the timber inventory in the considered region. |
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Develop a set of yield and regeneration tables suitable for long-term, high resolution, fiber supply analyses including wood quality components. |
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Develop OPTIONS scenarios for the high-resolution analysis of the effect of regulatory constraints on fiber supply. |
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Prepare results and publish them on the web site. |
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Provide comprehensive outputs (reports) from the high-resolution analyses. |
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Present results at meetings and conferences and submit a manuscript for journal publication. |
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Short Range Plans
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Objectives |
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Continue development of a Fiber Supply Assessment database with the available most up-to-date inventory information for Georgia using FIA/SAFIS data that is publicly available and other data publicly available or solicited from private companies that would agree to complement the information contained in the FIA data. |
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Build spatially explicit information about the water resources, roads and urban/suburban developments of Georgia into our Fiber Supply Assessment database. This information will be used to evaluate what effects timber harvest regulations in various levels of proximity to water resources will have on long-term forest resource sustainability of given different harvest levels for Georgia. |
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Continue development of the Fiber Supply simulations of specific scenarios to evaluate the sensitivity of the inventory to various levels of management, harvests and regeneration assumptions and to improve understanding of the dynamics and sustainability of Georgia's timber inventory by simulating inventory development over time in the spatially explicit context of the long-term sustainability analysis. |
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Evaluate sensitivity of fiber supply in the state subject to various rates of urban/suburban expansions and land use changes as well as different levels of water resource protection by the riparian zones. |
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Continue disseminating the information that is developed in the Fiber Supply Assessment program on the project website. |
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Continue developing the Fiber Supply Assessment studies of Carbon budgets, landscape analysis, and habitat management, to acquire additional funding for the program. |
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Continue developing and publishing Fiber Supply Assessment methodologies for derivation of the well behaved inventory projection models. |
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Met Stated Objectives?
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Met Objectives |
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I initiated the development of a database with the most up-to-date inventory information available for Georgia using publicly available FIA/SAFIS data and publicly available GIS data describing the state's roads, water resources, and urban and suburban areas. In addition, we acquired Landsat TM satellite data for the state, and have requested more data from various forest product industry members. |
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Carried out the first year of extensive analyses of the forest inventory data for Georgia assessing the fiber supply in the state for the next 200 years using comprehensive simulations based on various scenarios and assumptions to evaluate the sensitivity of the inventory to different forest management assumptions, harvests and regeneration assumptions. Will continue this work to further improve understanding of the dynamics and sustainability of Georgia's timber inventory. |
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Have been developing the web sites to help disseminate all information acquired through all the Fiber Supply Assessment analyses. |
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Continued very effectively developing and publishing methodologies for derivation of well-behaved fiber supply assessment models based on inventory projection functions. |
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Budget Requirements
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Requirements |
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For two positions, postdoc, and 6 graduate students, in Fiber Supply Assessment the needs might be estimated approximately as: |
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Travel (~$5K), |
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basic software upgrades books and manuals (~$2K), |
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part-payment for computers for 5 students (~5*3K), and |
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supplies (~1K). |
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I am hoping to cover much of these needs from grants. |
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School Service
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