Coeli Hoover

Durham, NH 03824-0640
United States
My research is focused on estimating and managing forest carbon at the stand and landscape scales, using a variety of tools including LiDAR. Carbon in forests is important for many reasons, including climate mitigation and soil productivity. Managing forests to maintain and enhance carbon stocks is compatible with other important forest management objectives, and I work to understand the carbon consequences of common management practices and the tradeoffs between managing for carbon and other objectives, such as wildlife habitat. I am also involved in outreach and training, teaching forest carbon estimation techniques to a variety of audiences.
Hoover, C.M. and Smith, J. E. Current aboveground live tree carbon stocks and annual net change in forests of the conterminous United States. 2021. Carbon Balance Manage 16, 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13021-021-00179-2
Hoover, C. M., Bagdon, B., Gagnon, A. 2021. Standard Estimates of Forest Ecosystem Carbon for Forest Types of the United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-202. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 158p. https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-GTR-202
Hoover, C. M. and Smith, J.E. 2016. Evaluating revised biomass equations: are some forest types more equivalent than others? Carbon Balance and Management, 11:2.
Hoover, C. M., Leak, W. B. and Keel, B. G. 2012. Benchmark carbon stocks from old-growth forests in northern New England, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 266:108-114.
Hoover, Coeli M.; Rebain, Stephanie A. 2011. Forest carbon estimation using the Forest Vegetation Simulator: Seven things you need to know. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-77. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 16 p.Forest carbon stocks, especially those in the soil, do not respond uniformly to management actions. I am interested in understanding and identifying the major factors driving the response, so that we can better assess what forest characteristics indicate the greatest potential for additonal carbon storage. I am also interested in developing ways to estimate forest carbon stocks that are operationally feasible at the landscape scale.
Hoover, C. M., Ducey, M. J., Colter, R. A., and Yamasaki, M. 2018. Evaluation of alternative approaches for landscape-scale biomass estimation in a mixed-species northern forest. Forest Ecology and Management. 409: 552-563
Hoover, Coeli; Birdsey, Richard; Goines, Bruce; Lahm, Peter; Marland, Gregg; Nowak, David; Prisley, Stephen; Reinhardt, Elizabeth; Skog, Ken; Skole, David; Smith, James; Trettin, Carl; Woodall, Christopher. 2014. Chapter 6: quantifying greenhouse gas sources and sinks in managed forest systems. In: Eve, M.; Pape, D.; Flugge, M.; Steele, R.; Man, D.; Riley-Gilbert, M.; Biggar, S. Quantifying greenhouse gas fluxes in agriculture and forestry: Methods for entity-scale inventory. Tech. Bull. 1939. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Chief Economist: 6-1-6.114.
Hoover, Coeli, M.; Heath, Linda S. 2011. Potential gains in storage on productive forestlands in the northeastern United Sates through stocking management. Ecological Applications. 21(4): 1154-1161, plus appendices.
My research is very applied and is focused on helping landowners and managers estimate their forest carbon stocks and understand how management affects those stocks, so that they can add forest carbon to their list of management objectives. I use a variety of approaches - experiments to develop knowldege, tool development (such as the carbon reports in the Fire and Fuels Extension of the Forest Vegetation Simulator), and technology transfer (training sessions) to meet those objectives. Lack of forest inventory data and the expense of collecting such data are a major barrier for managers who want to include carbon sequestration in their management plans; current research on the feasibility of landscape scale carbon assessment using Lidar data and streamlined inventory has the potential to remove this obstacle.
Hoover, Coeli M.; Smith, James E. 2020. Selecting a minimum diameter for forest biomass and carbon estimation: How low should you go? General Technical Report NRS-196. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. 32 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/NRS-GTR-196.
Hoover, Coeli; Stout, Susan 2007. The carbon consequences of thinning techniques: stand structure makes a difference. Journal of Forestry. July/August: 266-270.Hoover, Coeli; Birdsey, Richard; Goines, Bruce; Lahm, Peter; Marland, Gregg; Nowak, David; Prisley, Stephen; Reinhardt, Elizabeth; Skog, Ken; Skole, David; Smith, James; Trettin, Carl; Woodall, Christopher. 2014. Chapter 6: quantifying greenhouse gas sources and sinks in managed forest systems. In: Eve, M.; Pape, D.; Flugge, M.; Steele, R.; Man, D.; Riley-Gilbert, M.; Biggar, S. Quantifying greenhouse gas fluxes in agriculture and forestry: Methods for entity-scale inventory. Tech. Bull. 1939. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of the Chief Economist: 6-1-6.114.
- University of Georgia, Institute of Ecology, Ph.D., Soil Ecology, 1996
- University of Pittsburgh, B.S., Biology, 1991
- Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, 2013 - Current
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Research Ecologist,
Northern Research Station,
2003 -
Current
Studies of biomass, soil and forest floor carbon stocks in managed and unmanaged forested lands; assessment of management impacts on soil carbon dynamics and aboveground carbon storage; simulation of effects of management strategies on carbon stocks. Technology transfer, decision support, and outreach related to forest carbon estimation and management.
- Research Soil Scientist, Northeastern Research Station, 1999 - 2003
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Full Member,
Society of American Foresters (SAF),
2011 -
Current
Certified Senior Ecologist
- Full Member, American Geophysical Union, 2001 - Current
- Member, Ecological Society of America, 1992 - Current
- Member, Phi Beta Kappa, 1991 - Current
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USDA Certificate of Merit, 2008
Awarded for producing and editing the book "Field Measurements for Forest Carbon Monitoring: A Landscape-Scale Approach"
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USDA Certificate of Merit, 2008
Awarded to the Carbon Tools Development Group, winner of the 2008 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award for the Northern Research Station
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USDA Forest Service Certificate of Appreciation, 2000
Awarded for outstanding collaboration with the Department of Defense on forest carbon sequestration
- Hoover, Coeli M.; Bagdon, Ben ; Gagnon, Aaron. 2021. Standard estimates of forest ecosystem carbon for forest types of the United States
- Hoover, Coeli M.; Smith, James E.. 2021. Current aboveground live tree carbon stocks and annual net change in forests of conterminous United States
- Hoover, Coeli M.; Ducey, Mark J.; Colter, R. Andy; Yamasaki, Mariko. 2018. Evaluation of alternative approaches for landscape-scale biomass estimation in a mixed-species northern forest
- Hoover, Coeli M.; Leak, William B.; Keel, Brian G.. 2012. Benchmark carbon stocks from old-growth forests in northern New England, USA
- Hoover, Coeli M.; Rebain, Stephanie A.. 2011. Forest carbon estimation using the Forest Vegetation Simulator: Seven things you need to know
- Hoover, Coeli ; Bush, Renate ; Palmer, Marin ; Treasure, Emrys. 2020. Using Forest Inventory and Analysis Data to Support National Forest Management: Regional Case Studies
- Hoover, Coeli; Birdsey, Richard; Goines, Bruce; Lahm, Peter; Fan, Yongming; Nowak, David; Prisley, Stephen; Reinhardt, Elizabeth; Skog, Ken; Skole, David; Smith, James; Trettin, Carl; Woodall, Christopher. 2014. Chapter 6: quantifying greenhouse gas sources and sinks in managed forest systems
- Hoover, Coeli M.; Smith, James E.. 2016. Evaluating revised biomass equations: are some forest types more equivalent than others?
- Hoover, Coeli M.. 2011. Management impacts on forest floor and soil organic carbon in northern temperate forests of the US
- Hoover, C.M. ; Bartig, J.L. ; Bogaczyk, B. ; Breeden, C. ; Iverson, L.R. ; Prout, L. ; Sheffield, R.M.. 2022. Forest inventory and analysis data in action: Examples from eastern national forests
- Hoover, Coeli M.; Smith, James E.. 2020. Selecting a minimum diameter for forest biomass and carbon estimation: How low should you go?
- Hoover, Coeli. 2019. The carbon consequences of thinning Allegheny hardwoods: Lessons learned from a study designed to inform SILVAH development
- Hoover, Coeli M.; Smith, James E.. 2017. Equivalence of live tree carbon stocks produced by three estimation approaches for forests of the western United States
- Hoover, Coeli M.; Smith, James E.. 2017. Equivalence among three alternative approaches to estimating live tree carbon stocks in the eastern United States
- Smith, James E.; Hoover, Coeli M.. 2017. Live tree carbon stock equivalence of fire and fuels extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator and Forest Inventory and Analysis approaches
- MacLean, Richard G.; Ducey, Mark J.; Hoover, Coeli M.. 2014. A comparison of carbon stock estimates and projections for the northeastern United States
- Breidt, Jay; Ogle, Stephen M.; Powers, Wendy; Hoover, Coeli. 2014. Chapter 8: Uncertainty assessment for quantifying greenhouse gas sources and sinks
- Hoover, Coeli M.; Heath, Linda S.. 2014. A commentary on 'mineral soil carbon fluxes in forests and implications for carbon balance assessments': a deeper look at the data
- Hoover, Coeli M.; Beukema, Sarah J.; Robinson, Donald C.E.; Kellock, Katherine M.; Abraham, Diana A.. 2014. PRESTO: online calculation of carbon in harvested wood products
- Smith, James E.; Heath, Linda S.; Hoover, Coeli M.. 2013. Carbon factors and models for forest carbon estimates for the 2005-2011 National Greenhouse Gas Inventories of the United States
- Cole, Jason A.; Johnson, Kristopher D.; Birdsey, Richard A.; Pan, Yude; Wayson, Craig A.; McCullough, Kevin; Hoover, Coeli M.; Hollinger, David Y.; Bradford, John B.; Ryan, Michael G.; Kolka, Randall K.; Wieshampel, Peter; Clark, Kenneth L.; Skowronski, Nicholas S.; Hom, John; Ollinger, Scott V.; McNulty, Steven G.; Gavazzi, Michael J.. 2013. Database for landscape-scale carbon monitoring sites
- Hoover, Coeli M.; Smith, James E.. 2012. Site productivity and forest carbon stocks in the United States: Analysis and implications for forest offset project planning
- Hoover, Coeli M.. 2011. Measurement, monitoring, and verification: make it work!
- Hoover, Coeli. 2011. Assessing seven decades of carbon accumulation in two U.S. northern hardwood forests
- Hoover, Coeli, M..; Heath, Linda S.. 2011. Potential gains in storage on productive forestlands in the northeastern United Sates through stocking management
- Iverson, Louis; Prasad, Anantha; Matthews, Stephen; Peters, Matthew; Hoover, Ceoli. 2010. Potential changes in habitat suitability under climate change: lessons learned from 15 years of species modelling
- Hoover, Coeli M.. 2010. Using existing thinning studies to investigate the carbon consequences of thinning: learning from the past to craft the future
- Hoover, Coeli. 2008. The Kane Experimental Forest carbon inventory: Carbon reporting with FVS
- Hoover, Coeli, M... 2008. Preface
- Hoover, Coeli; Stout, Susan. 2007. The carbon consequences of thinning techniques: stand structure makes a difference
- Stout, Susan L.; Hoover, Coeli M.; Ristau, Todd E.. 2006. Listening to old beech and young cherry trees - long-term research in the Alleghenies
- Hoover, Coeli M.. 2005. Carbon Storage in Northeastern US Forest Soils
- Birdsey, R.; Hollinger, D.; Heath, L.; Hoover, C.; Kolka, R.; Smith, M. L.; Ryan, M.. 2003. Pilot Studies for Enhanced Forest Land Measurement
- Hoover, Coeli M.. 2003. Soil carbon sequestration and forest management: challenges and opportunities
- Conkling, Barbara L.; Hoover, Coeli M.; Smith, William D.; Palmer, Craig J.. 2002. Using forest health monitoring data to integrate above and below ground carbon information
- Hoover, C.M.; Magrini, K.A.; Evans, R.J.. 2002. Soil carbon content and character in an old-growth forest in northwestern Pennsylvania: a case study introducing pyrolysis molecular beam mass spectrometry (py-MBMS)
- Magrini, K.A.; Evans, R.J.; Hoover, C.M.; Elam, C.C.; Davis, M.F.. 2002. Use of pyrolysis molecular beam mass spectrometry (py-MBMS) to characterize forest soil carbon: method and preliminary results
- Hoover, Coeli M.; Birdsey, Richard A.; Heath, Linda S.; Stout, Susan L.. 2000. How to estimate carbon sequestration on small forest tracts estimate carbon sequestration on small forest tracts

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