Profile Link:

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

Email:

mark.d.nelson@usda.gov

Address:

1992 Folwell Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108-1034

Phone:

651-649-5104

Fax:

651-649-5140

Featured Publications

1. Conserving forest biological diversity: How the Montreal Process helps achieve sustainability
2. Spatial characteristics of early successional habitat across the Upper Great Lakes states
3. Effects of satellite image spatial aggregation and resolution on estimates of forest land area
4. Forest change in the Driftless Area of the Midwest: From a preferred to undesirable future
5. Changes in forest habitat classes under alternative climate and land-use change scenarios in the northeast and midwest, USA
6. Water stress projections for the northeastern and Midwestern United States in 2060: anthropogenic and ecological consequences
7. Consistency of forest presence and biomass predictions modeled across overlapping spatial and temporal extents
8. Comparison of statistical and theoretical habitat models for conservation planning: the benefit of ensemble prediction
9. Using a full annual cycle model to evaluate long-term population viability of the conservation-reliant Kirtland's warbler after successful recovery
10. Spatial and temporal habitat-use patterns of wood turtles at the western edge of their distribution

Profile Link:

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

Email:

charles.barnett@usda.gov

Address:

271 Mast Rd
Durham, NH 03824

Phone:

603-868-7620

Fax:

603-868-7604

Featured Publications

1. Vermont's Forests 2007
2. Pennsylvania's forest resources, 2009
3. Pennsylvania's forest resources, 2008
4. Pennsylvania's forest resources, 2007
5. Missouri's forest resources, 2010

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/bbutler01

Email:

brett.butler2@usda.gov

Address:

160 Holdsworth Way
Amherst, MA 01003

Phone:

413-545-1387

Featured Publications

1. How large is large? Identifying large corporate ownerships in FIA datasets
2. Family Forest Owner Characteristics Shaped by Life Cycle, Cohort, and Period Effects
3. USDA Forest Service National Woodland Owner Survey: national, regional, and state statistics for family forest and woodland ownerships with 10+ acres, 2011-2013
4. Methods for increasing cooperation rates for surveys of family forest owners
5. Hansel and Gretel Walk in the Forest, Landowners Walk in the Woods: A Qualitative Examination of the Language Used by Family Forest Owners

Profile Link:

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

Email:

susan.j.crocker@usda.gov

Address:

1992 Folwell Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108

Phone:

651-649-5136

Featured Publications

1. Patterns among the ashes: Exploring the relationship between landscape pattern and the emerald ash borer
2. Retrospective analysis of EAB spread: understanding the effect of landscape pattern on invasion and propagation
3. New Jersey's forests, 2008

Profile Link:

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

Email:

grant.m.domke@usda.gov

Address:

1992 Folwell Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108-1034

Phone:

651-649-5138

Mobile Phone:

651-503-6153

Fax:

651-649-5140

Featured Publications

1. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, and urban trees in the United States, 1990-2018
2. rFIA: An R package for estimation of forest attributes with the US Forest Inventory and Analysis database
3. Reforestation can sequester two petagrams of carbon in US topsoils in a century
4. Dominant forest tree mycorrhizal type mediates understory plant invasions
5. Toward inventory-based estimates of soil organic carbon in forests of the United States
6. Estimating litter carbon stocks on forest land in the United States

Profile Link:

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

Email:

dale.gormanson@usda.gov

Address:

1992 Folwell Ave
St. Paul, MN 55108

Phone:

651-649-5126

Featured Publications

1. Minnesota's Forests 2008
2. Ecological importance of intermediate windstorms rivals large, infrequent disturbances in the northern Great Lakes
3. The utility of the cropland data layer for Forest Inventory and Analysis
4. Forest resources of the United States, 2002: mapping the renewable resource planning act data
5. Exploring the association of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' satellite-detected change with the Forest Inventory and Analysis system of observed removals and mortality

Profile Link:

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

Email:

cassandra.m.kurtz@usda.gov

Address:

1992 Folwell Ave
St Paul, MN 55108

Phone:

651-649-5149

Featured Publications

1. Forest resources within the Lake States ceded territories 1980 - 2013
2. An assessment of invasive plant species monitored by the Northern Research Station Forest Inventory and Analysis Program, 2005 through 2010

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/tlister01

Email:

tonya.lister@usda.gov

Address:

3460 Industrial Dr.
York, PA 17402

Phone:

717-718-4174

Featured Publications

1. Semi-Automated Sample-Based Forest Degradation Monitoring with Photointerpretation of High-Resolution Imagery
2. Comparative assessment of methods for estimating tree canopy cover across a rural-to-urban gradient in the mid-Atlantic region of the USA
3. Estimating fine-scale land use change dynamics using an expedient photointerpretation-based method
4. Houston’s Urban Forest, 2015
5. Austin's Urban Forest, 2014
6. Comparison of forest area data in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
7. Maryland's Forests 2008
8. Development of issue-relevant state level analyses of fragmentation and urbanization
9. Identifying areas of relative change in forest fragmentation in New Hampshire between 1990 and 2000
10. Ohio Forests 2016

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/wmcwilliams

Email:

will.mcwilliams@usda.gov

Address:

11 Campus Blvd., Suite 200
Newtown Square, PA 19073

Phone:

610-557-4050

Featured Publications

Profile Link:

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

Email:

dacia.m.meneguzzo@usda.gov

Address:

1992 Folwell Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108

Phone:

651-649-5129

Featured Publications

1. Mapping trees outside forests using high-resolution aerial imagery: a comparison of pixel- and object based classification approaches
2. Status and trends of eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) in the central United States: Analyses and observations based on Forest Inventory and Analysis data
3. Shape indexes for semi-automated detection of windbreaks in thematic tree cover maps from the central United States
4. Assessing tree cover in agricultural landscapes using high-resolution aerial imagery
5. Summary of findings from the Great Plains Tree and Forest Invasives Initiative
6. Northern Great Plains Forests 2015
7. Patterns among the ashes: Exploring the relationship between landscape pattern and the emerald ash borer

Profile Link:

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

Email:

patrick.miles@usda.gov

Address:

1992 Folwell Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108-1034

Phone:

651-649-5146

Featured Publications

Profile Link:

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

Email:

rsmorin@usda.gov

Address:

600 East Mermaid Lane
Wyndmoor, PA 19038

Phone:

215-233-6562

Featured Publications

1. Biomass losses resulting from insect and disease invasions in US forests
2. Invasions by two non-native insects alter regional forest species composition and successional trajectories
3. Spread of beech bark disease in the eastern United States and its relationship to regional forest composition
4. Anisotropic spread of hemlock woolly adelgid in the eastern United States
5. Trend analyses and projections using national forest inventory data
6. Mortality rates associated with crown health for eastern forest tree species
7. Changes in the regional abundance of hemlock associated with the invasion of hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae Annand)
8. Regional assessment of emerald ash borer, Agrilus planipennis, impacts in forests of the Eastern United States
9. Invasive forest defoliator contributes to the impending downward trend of oak dominance in eastern North America
10. Mapping host-species abundance of three major exotic forest pests

Profile Link:

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

Email:

ron.piva@usda.gov

Address:

1992 Folwell Ave
St. Paul, MN 55108

Phone:

651-649-5150

Featured Publications

1. West Virginia timber industry: an assessment of timber product output and use, 2007
2. Vermont's Forests 2007
3. South Dakota's forest resources, 2010
4. National pulpwood production, 2008
5. Minnesota's Forests 2008

Profile Link:

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

Email:

rachel.riemann@usda.gov

Address:

c/o USGS, 425 Jordan Road
Troy, NY 12180

Phone:

518-285-5607

Featured Publications

1. Tree species distribution in the United States Part 1
2. An effective assessment protocol for continuous geospatial datasets of forest characteristics using USFS Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data
3. A nearest-neighbor imputation approach to mapping tree species over large areas using forest inventory plots and moderate resolution raster data
4. Ohio Forests 2016
5. Characterization and visualization of the accuracy of FIA's CONUS-wide tree species datasets
6. Landscape characteristics affecting streams in urbanizing regions of the Delaware River Basin (New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, U.S.)
7. Mapping U.S. forest biomass using nationwide forest inventory data and moderate resolution information
8. Aerial photo guide to New England forest cover types
9. Comparative assessment of methods for estimating tree canopy cover across a rural-to-urban gradient in the mid-Atlantic region of the USA
10. Development of issue-relevant state level analyses of fragmentation and urbanization

Profile Link:

https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/jsmith11

Email:

james.smith6@usda.gov

Address:

271 Mast Road
Durham, NH 03824-0640

Phone:

603-868-7663

Featured Publications

1. Managed forest carbon estimates for the US greenhouse gas inventory, 1990-2008
2. Carbon stocks on forestland of the United States, with emphasis on USDA Forest Service ownership
3. Carbon changes in conterminous US forests associated with growth and major disturbances: 1992-2001
4. Greenhouse gas and carbon profile of the U.S. forest products industry value chain
5. FORCARB2: An updated version of the U.S. Forest Carbon Budget Model

Profile Link:

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

Email:

brian.f.walters@usda.gov

Address:

1992 Folwell Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55108-1034

Phone:

651-649-5135

Featured Publications

1. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, and urban trees in the United States, 1990-2018
2. rFIA: An R package for estimation of forest attributes with the US Forest Inventory and Analysis database
3. The role of reforestation in carbon sequestration
4. Carbon stocks and stock change on federal forest lands of the United States
5. Tracking downed dead wood in forests over time: Development of a piece matching algorithm for line intercept sampling

Profile Link:

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

Email:

james.westfall@usda.gov

Address:

3460 Industrial Drive
York, PA 17402

Featured Publications

1. New Models for Predicting Diameter at Breast Height from Stump Dimensions
2. Biomass measurement and modeling challenges for hardwood species in the northern region
3. Detecting change in advance tree regeneration using forest inventory data: the implications of type II error
4. FIA national assessment of data quality for forest health indicators
5. End-point diameter and total length coarse woody debris models for the United States
6. Measurement variability error for estimates of volume change
7. Sample-based estimators used by the forest inventory and analysis national information management system

Profile Link:

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

Email:

christopher.w.woodall@usda.gov

Address:

271 Mast Rd
Durham, NH 03824

Phone:

603-868-7638

Mobile Phone:

651-216-3854

Featured Publications

1. The downed and dead wood inventory of forests in the United States
2. The U.S. forest carbon accounting framework: stocks and stock change, 1990-2016
3. Climate and species functional traits influence maximum live tree stocking in the Lake States, USA
4. The impacts of increasing drought on forest dynamics, structure, and biodiversity in the United States
5. Dual impacts of climate change: forest migration and turnover through life history
6. Monitoring network confirms land use change is a substantial component of the forest carbon sink in the eastern United States
7. An indicator of tree migration in forests of the eastern United States
8. Determining maximum stand density index in mixed species stands for strategic-scale stocking assessments
9. Net carbon flux of dead wood in forests of the Eastern US