Biographical Information about Miles Hemstrom

Miles A. Hemstrom is a Research Ecologist for the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station at the Portland Forestry Sciences Laboratory. Miles received his B.S. in Biology from Western State College of Colorado in 1975 and a Ph.D. in plant ecology from Oregon State University in 1979. He did postdoctoral research at Oregon State University (1979-1980), served as Area Ecologist for the Willamette and Siuslaw National Forests (1980-1992), Group Leader for Ecology, Silviculture and Inventory in the Rocky Mountain Region of the USDA Forest Service (1992-1994), Regional Ecologist for the Pacific Northwest Region of the USDA Forest Service (1994- 1999), Science Team Ecologist for the Interior Columbia River Basin Ecosystem Management Project (1999-2001), and Research Ecologist for the PNW Research Station of theUSDA Forest Service (2001-present).

His current research interests include: 1) understanding and modeling landscape interactions of vegetation, fire and other disturbances, invasive plants, and management in east-side Oregon and Washington ecosystems, 2) understanding, modeling and inventory of riparian/streamside conditions at watershed and larger scales with a focus on eastern Oregon and Washington, and 3) application of landscape models to landscape planning and assessments.