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Research Interests

Broadly, I'm interested in understanding and forecasting forest carbon dynamics in response to natural and anthropogenic drivers. My work addresses the question of whether forests will continue to be a carbon sink or become a carbon source, which becomes increasingly salient as countries plan to rely on forests to meet emissions reductions targets to limit warming. In my thesis work, I used the information in tree rings to create a climate-sensitive version of the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS), a widely used management tool and carbon calculator.

Research Interests

I am a research forester with the US Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis Program (FIA). I'm part of the carbon science group, so most of my current work revolves around forest carbon: incorporating remote sensing into biomass estimation, estimating how carbon moves through different demographic pools (seedlings -> live trees -> dead wood, etc.), ways to leverage the national design of the FIA program to better understand carbon dynamics, among others.

Research Interests

My interests are silviculture and extension forestry and my grad work primarily consists of determining how the Great Lakes Silviculture Library is used and how effective it is as an educational tool for practitioners.

When I'm not in the woods...

I'm adventuring outdoors with my wife and son, skiing, shooting, or playing board games, or video games.

Education

B.S. Forest Ecosystem Management and Conservation, University of Minnesota '19

Favorite tree: Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus)

Research Interests

My research interests include natural disturbance-based silviculture, natural regeneration, and interactions among regeneration, herbivores, and understory plant communities.

Research Interests

Forest dynamics under a changing climate and human disturbances Data fusion between satellite images and ground measurements

I am currently working on carbon stock modeling in U.S. forests

When I'm not in the woods, I...

I love spending time with my family, hiking, traveling, and watching movies.

Education

PhD: Florida State University
MS and BS: Peking University

Favorite tree: Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba)

Research Interests

I am interested in wetland and forest soils and how their interactions with ecological processes influence ecosystem functions.

Research Interests

Forest ecosystem stand development and succession, silviculture, natural regeneration methods, forest management for multiple objectives, dendroecology.