Agenda 2001: 5th Annual NEMO Meeting

Caroline A. Fox Research and Demonstration Forest

309 Center Road

Hillsboro, NH

August 22nd and 23rd





Wednesday, August 22nd


11:00 - 12:00 Registration
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (on your own)

Session I: Integrating Models and Management
Jeff Gove, Moderator


1:00 - 1:30 J-Shaped and S-shaped Diameter Distributions: Models and Applications   Bill Leak
1:30 - 2:00 A Finite Mixture Model for Describing Irregular Diameter Distributions of Forest Stands   Chuangmin Lui & Lianjun Zhang
2:00 - 2:30 A Comparison of Species Growth Responses to Competition Levels at the Individual Tree Level--A Progress Report   Diane Kiernan
2:30 - 3:00 Do Traditional Size-density Metrics Reflect Stand Level Productivity in Eastern White Pine?   Jim Innes, Mark Ducey, Jeff Gove and Jim Barrett
3:00 - 3:30 Break

Session II: Arcana, Miscellany and Bayes
Harry Valentine, Moderator


3:30 - 4:00 Balance: A System for Fitting DBH Distributions   Jeff Gove
4:00 - 4:30 Bayesian Estimation of Stand Tables   Ed Green
4:30 - 5:00 Bayesian Melding for Model Calibration   Phil Radtke
5:30 - 7:30 Outdoor Barbeque


Thursday, August 23rd



Session III: Innovative Applications in Inventory, Sampling and Modeling
Mark Ducey, Moderator


8:30 - 9:00 Results of the New Hampshire Timber Harvest Assessment   Ken Desmarais
9:00 - 9:30 Sausage Sampling: A Practical Modification of Horizontal Line Sampling for Inventorying Snags   Greg Jordan, Mark Ducey, Jeff Gove and Harry Valentine:
9:30 - 10:00 Modeling the Effect of Competition on the Vertical Distribution of Bole Area Growth   Eddie Bevilacqua
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:00 Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA) and Individual Tree Competition Indices   Haijin Shi and Lianjun Zhang
11:00 - 11:30 Issues Related to FIA Panel Creep   Paul Van Deusen
11:30 - 12:00 Using a New Measure of Stand Height Structure for Developing Locally Valid Yield Curves   Voyteck Zakrzewski
noon Field Trip (box lunch included).
We will take a tour of some of the Fox Forest Research and Demonstration areas highlighting marking for the following silvicultural methods in mixed oak-pine stands: cohort management, aesthetic high-grading, strip, group selection, selection, clear cutting and shelterwood. Trip hosted by Ken Desmarais.


Participants 2001


James Atta-Boateng Mead Corporation
Karen Bennett UNH
Eddie Bevilacqua SUNY-ESF
Jim Byers NH Division of Forests and Lands, Fox Research Forest
Todd Caldwell L.E. Caldwell Company
Susan Campbell UNH
Ken Desmarais NH Division of Forests and Lands, Fox Research Forest
Scott Desmarais Future forester
Mark Ducey UNH
Jeff Gove USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station
Ed Green Rutgers
Linda Heath USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station
Scott Hemminger Consultant
Jim Innes UNH
Greg Jordan UNH
John Kershaw University of New Brunswick
Chad Keyser USDA Forest Service, Forest Management Service Centre
Diane Kiernan SUNY-ESF
Bill Leak USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station
Chuangmin Lui SUNY-ESF
Phil Radtke Virginia Tech
Matt Robblee NH Division of Forests and Lands, Fox Research Forest
Haijin Shi SUNY-ESF
Bob Smith USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station
Robert Turner R.J. Turner Company
Harry Valentine USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station
Paul Van Deusen NCASI
Wojciech Zakrzewski OMNR
Lianjun Zhang SUNY-ESF