People
Staff
Mark Kimsey – Director
Terry Shaw – Senior Research Scientist
Post-Doctoral Research Associates
Jaslam Poolakkal – Leads national Center for Advanced Forestry Systems effort to build geospatial forest carrying capacity models
Ed Flathers – Leads IFC research efforts in remote sensing and forest inventory
Ann Abbott – Leads IFC research efforts to build allometric relationships from remotely sensed forest inventory and ground truth plots
Benjamin Spei – Leads evaluation of physiographic, edaphic and vegetation classification frameworks along Type F and S riparian zones of Eastern Washington
Graduate Students
Haley Anderson
PhD – Identify climatic, edaphic, physiographic and mensurational stand drivers of western pine beetle infestation and ponderosa pine mortality for the purpose of modifying SDImax management guidelines
Noel Daugherty
Master of Science – Evaluate lidar and photogrammetric remote sensing platforms for automating defining, identifying, and measuring site trees
Taylor Lantz
Master of Science – Assess survival and growth performance of woods run vs improved Douglas-fir seedlings across Intermountain West forest site types
Brandon Light
PhD – Evaluate riparian zone classification systems for eastern Washington for the refinement of riparian management and silviculture guidelines
Daria Paxton
Master of Science – Examine dynamic soil properties and vegetation communities of the Xeric Soil Moisture Regime across Intermountain West forests
Past Graduate Students
Logan Wimme, 2022
Master of Science – Modeling site productivity across interior northern California
Ryan Heiderman, 2021
Ph.D. - Current and future environmental constraints on stand carrying capacity in the Pacific Northwest
Patrick Whalen, 2021
Master of Science - Early stand silviculture impacts on stand development and growth
Allison Harvey, 2020
Master of Science - Validation of USDA-NRCS soil moisture regimes through in-situ soil monitoring and plant association mapping
Halli Hemingway, 2020
Master of Science - A comparison of traditional site index vs. 10-meter method for estimating site productivity
Leslee Crawford, 2019
Master of Science - Temporal soil recovery rates following forest harvest impacts in the Blue Mountains, Oregon
Jessica Sarauer, 2018
Ph.D. - Greenhouse gas emissions from biochar-amended soils
Ann Abbott, 2017
Ph.D. - A Comparison of Regional and Site-Specific Biomass Equations for Northern Idaho Conifers
Lauren Sherman, 2017
Master of Science - Site conversion and biomass removal effects on greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient remediation planning
Ahlim Lee, 2017
Master of Science - Nutrient flux in soil: poplar plantation vs. agricultural land
Bhanu Bhattarai, 2015
Master of Science - Nutrient flux in soil: poplar plantation vs. agricultural land
Christopher Chase, 2015
Master of Science - Resource availability in response to precommercial thinning at various initial site productivity and density
Shan Shan, 2013
Master of Science - Soil nitrogen along elevation gradients and biochar effects
Dan Smith, 2013
Master of Science - Effects of biochar on soil biochemical processes
Derrick Reeves, 2011
Master of Science - Timber harvest soil disturbance as modified by climate and landform
Kristin McElligott, 2011
Master of Science - Effects of biochar on forest soils