Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/liverson

Email:

louis.iverson@usda.gov

Address:

359 Main Road
Delaware, OH 43015

Phone:

740-368-0097

Featured Publications

1. The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States
2. Multi-model comparison on the effects of climate change on tree species in the eastern U.S.: results from an enhanced niche model and process-based ecosystem and landscape models
3. Potential species replacements for black ash (Fraxinus nigra) at the confluence of two threats: Emerald ash borer and a changing climate
4. Lessons learned while integrating habitat, dispersal, disturbance, and life-history traits into species habitat models under climate change
5. Development of risk matrices for evaluating climatic change responses of forested habitats
6. An overview of some concepts, potentials, issues, and realities of assisted migration for climate change adaptation in forests
7. Tree-species range shifts in a changing climate: detecting, modeling, assisting
8. A practical approach for translating climate change adaptation principles into forest management actions
9. Assessing and comparing risk to climate changes among forested locations: implications for ecosystem services
10. Delineating generalized species boundaries from species distribution data and a species distribution model

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/thompson

Email:

frank.r.thompson@usda.gov

Address:

202 ABNR Bldg., University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, MO 65211-7260

Phone:

573-875-5341 x224

Featured Publications

1. Survival costs associated with wood frog breeding migrations: effects of timber harvest and drought
2. Predicting bird habitat quality from a geospatial analysis of FIA data
3. Nocturnal predation of females on nests: an important source of mortality for golden-cheeked warblers?
4. Multiscale habitat suitability index models for priority landbirds in the Central Hardwoods and West Gulf Coastal Plain/Ouachitas Bird Conservation Regions
5. Assessing ecoregional-scale habitat suitability index models for priority landbirds

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/lbrandt

Email:

leslie.brandt@usda.gov

Address:

1992 Folwell Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108-1034

Phone:

651-649-5016

Featured Publications

1. Central Hardwoods ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the Central Hardwoods Climate Change Response Framework project
2. Adaptation strategies and approaches: Chapter 2
3. Adaptation workbook: Chapter 3
4. Ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the Climate Change Response Framework Project in northern Wisconsin
5. Climate change science applications and needs in forest ecosystem management: a workshop organized as part of the northern Wisconsin Climate Change Response Framework Project

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/sdhandler

Email:

stephen.handler@usda.gov

Address:

410 MacInnes Dr.
Houghton, MI 49931

Phone:

906-482-6303 x1321

Fax:

906-482-6355

Featured Publications

1. Michigan forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the Northwoods Climate Change Response Framework project
2. Minnesota forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the Northwoods Climate Change Response Framework project
3. Dibaginjigaadeg Anishinaabe Ezhitwaad: A Tribal Climate Adaptation Menu

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/mjanowiak

Email:

maria.janowiak@usda.gov

Address:

410 MacInnes Dr.
Houghton, MI 49931

Phone:

906-482-6303 x1329

Featured Publications

1. A practical approach for translating climate change adaptation principles into forest management actions

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/cswanston

Email:

christopher.swanston@usda.gov

Address:

410 MacInnes Drive
Houghton, MI 49931-1134

Phone:

906-482-6303 x1320

Featured Publications

1. Forest Adaptation Resources: climate change tools and approaches for land managers, 2nd edition
2. Assessing stand-level climate change risk using forest inventory data and species distribution models
3. Vulnerability of forests of the Midwest and Northeast United States to climate change
4. Midwest
5. Reforestation can sequester two petagrams of carbon in US topsoils in a century
6. Adaptation pathways: ecoregion and land ownership influences on climate adaptation decision-making in forest management
7. Toward inventory-based estimates of soil organic carbon in forests of the United States
8. Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change: A National Experiment in Manager-Scientist Partnerships to Apply an Adaptation Framework

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/dijak

Email:

william.dijak@usda.gov

Address:

202 Natural Resources Bldg
Columbia, MO 65211

Phone:

573-875-5341 x241

Featured Publications

1. Integration of satellite imagery and forest inventory in mapping dominant and associated species at a regional scale
2. Landscape habitat suitability index software
3. Development of landscape-level habitat suitability models for ten wildlife species in the central hardwoods region
4. Simulated effects of forest management alternatives on landscape structure and habitat suitability in the Midwestern United States
5. Linking population viability, habitat suitability, and landscape simulation models for conservation planning

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/snmatthews

Email:

stephen.matthews@usda.gov

Address:

359 Main Road
Delaware, OH 46015

Phone:

740-368-0156

Featured Publications

1. Ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the Climate Change Response Framework Project in northern Wisconsin
2. Potential impacts of climate change on bird and tree habitats within the Appalachian Mountains
3. Potential changes in habitat suitability under climate change: lessons learned from 15 years of species modelling
4. Modeling the invasive emerald ash borer risk of spread using a spatially explicit cellular model
5. Merger of three modeling approaches to assess potential effects of climate change on trees in the eastern United States

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/mpeters

Email:

matthew.p.peters@usda.gov

Address:

359 Main Road
Delaware, OH 43015

Phone:

740-368-0063

Fax:

740-368-0152

Featured Publications

1. Utilizing the density of inventory samples to define a hybrid lattice for species distribution models: DISTRIB‐II for 135 eastern U.S. trees
2. Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on Tree Species of the Eastern US: Results of DISTRIB-II Modeling
3. USDA Forest Service section, subsection, and landtype descriptions for southeastern Ohio
4. Projected Drought for the Conterminous United States in the 21st Century
5. Incorporating fine-scale drought information into an eastern US wildfire hazard model
6. Long-term droughtiness and drought tolerance of eastern US forests over five decades

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/aprasad

Email:

anantha.prasad@usda.gov

Address:

359 Main Road
Delaware, OH 43015

Phone:

740-368-0103

Featured Publications

1. A multistage decision support framework to guide tree species management under climate change via habitat suitability and colonization models, and a knowledge-based scoring system
2. Macroscale intraspecific variation and environmental heterogeneity: analysis of cold and warm zone abundance, mortality, and regeneration distributions of four eastern US tree species
3. Exploring tree species colonization potentials using a spatially explicit simulation model: implications for four oaks under climate change
4. Modeling the invasive emerald ash borer risk of spread using a spatially explicit cellular model
5. Lessons learned while integrating habitat, dispersal, disturbance, and life-history traits into species habitat models under climate change
6. Using a cellular model to explore human-facilitated spread of risk of EAB in Minnesota
7. Modeling the invasive emerald ash borer risk of spread using a spatially explicit cellular model
8. Atlases of tree and bird species habitats for current and future climates
9. Estimating potential habitat for 134 eastern US tree species under six climate scenarios
10. Newer classification and regression tree techniques: Bagging and Random Forests for ecological prediction

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/tschuler

Email:

thomas.m.schuler@usda.gov

Address:

1400 Independence Ave., SW
Mailstop 1115
Washington, DC 20250-0003

Phone:

202-205-1635

Mobile Phone:

304-919-6143

Featured Publications

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/sstout

Email:

susan.stout@usda.gov

Address:

PO Box 267
335 National Forge Road
Irvine, PA 16329

Phone:

814-563-1040

Fax:

814-563-1048

Featured Publications

1. Fifty years of science-management cooperation from the SILVAH community of practice
2. Bridging the Gender Gap: The demographics of scientists in the USDA Forest Service and academia
3. The Kinzua Quality Deer Cooperative: can adaptive management and local stakeholder engagement sustain reduced impact of ungulate browsers in forest systems?
4. The canary in the coal mine: Sprouts as a rapid indicator of browse impact in managed forests
5. Simulating ungulate herbivory across forest landscapes: A browsing extension for LANDIS-II
6. SILVAH-OAK: ensuring adoption by engaging users in the full cycle of forest research
7. The devil is in the small dense saplings: A midstory herbicide treatment has limited effects on short-term regeneration outcomes in oak shelterwood stands
8. Restoring forest herb communities through landscape-level deer herd reductions: Is recovery limited by legacy effects?
9. Oil and gas impacts on forest ecosystems: findings gleaned from the 2012 Goddard Forum at Penn State University
10. User's guide to SILVAH