Both Stuart Steidle and Shelby Weiss won the student travel awards to cover their expenses to attend the International Association of Landscape Ecology. Congrats to both of them!
Stuart’s talk will be about “Testing presence, assessing attitudes: study of a virtual tour in an “aesthetically challenged” landscape”
Shelby’s talk will be about “Contexts mediating future shifts in vegetation composition in interior Alaska boreal forests under climate change”.
PI, Melissa Lucash, and Co-PI, Neil Williams, will be working a new project with Oregon State University to support the development of the forest management plan for the Elliott State Research Forest (ESRF). Simulation of forest successional processes, forest management activities, and natural disturbances with LANDIS-II using a variety of alternative harvest configurations will inform forest management planning on the Elliott State Forest to achieve desired ownership goals. Our work will help to spatially optimizing forest management at the landscape scale to conserve endangered species, preserve old growth stands, store carbon, and produce timber.
Stuart Steidle, M.S. student in our lab, received funding to support his MS research on our WI ViFF project from UO’s, Center for Science Communication Research (SCR). Congrats Stuart!
SCR was established by UO to lead and teach about cutting-edge science communication research that addresses complex problems and improves evidence-based decision making.
UO School of Journalism and Communication, SCR
James Lamping, PhD student working on our SE Alaska project, published his first first-author paper recently based on his MS research at Humboldt State with Dr. Harold Zald, now at the US Forest Service. Congrats James!
Neil Williams, PD in our lab, just published one of the chapters from his dissertation last week. Congrats Neil!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037811272100699X?via%3Dihub
James Lamping has just joined the UO flock as a PhD student on the SE Alaska project funded by NSF. He is also helping out this summer on our AKReburns project. Welcome James!
This paper was led by Dr. Adrienne Marshall, postdoc at Georgia Tech.
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It’s free. Register here:
https://uoregon.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsdu2rrTgvHNyWW5vNJ5DT7jgmjWv1tskP
What does it mean to see the forest for the trees when the trees, well, aren’t there? For the Forest Service, this question brings both the past and the future into focus as they work on restoring historically open habitats in a corner of Wisconsin’s Northwoods. The signature answer that binds past conditions, present management activities, and future outcomes is: fire.
“We’re trying to emulate nature as much as we can wherever we can in all of these treatments,” Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest silviculturist John Lampereur told me when we met in late April amongst the nascent Pine Barrens that he’s helping restore.
Pine barrens are a globally rare habitat type, and remnants in Wisconsin resemble heaths or savannahs, characterized by diverse shrubs, a grassy base layer, scant canopy, recurrent fire, and – the most exciting part – prolific blueberry patches.
