Biographical Information about Warren Cohen

Warren B. Cohen is a Research Forester with the Pacific Northwest Research Station of the USDA Forest Service and Director of the Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing in Ecology at the Corvallis Forestry Sciences Lab in Oregon. His PhD (1989) is from Colorado State University, in Forest Science, with emphases on remote Science and the sensing and wildland fire behavior.

Currently, he conducts research in remote sensing and related geographic and ecological sciences. His primary focus is translation of remote sensing data into useful ecological information, with significant activity in analysis and modeling of vegetation structure and composition across multiple biome types. His research involves spatially-explicit modeling of ecological processes with significant attention to scaling from fine to coarse grain.

He is an Assistant Professor (courtesy) in the Department of Forest Science at Oregon State University, where he intermittently teaches a graduate level remote sensing and landscape ecology course, advises graduate students as both major and minor professor, serves on interdepartmental committees, and gives guest lectures and seminars. He is on the editorial board of the journal Remote Sensing of Environment. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers across a spectrum of forestry, ecology, and remote sensing journals.