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Technological Innovations and Decision Support for Forest Management
Yale Virtual
Seminar Series - Spring 2008
Seminar
Presentation Schedule:
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Date
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Title
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March
10
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"The Application of Decision
Support Tools to Forest Management"
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March
17
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"Development of the Sylvan
Stand Structure model to describe wood quality changes in Southern
Bottomland Hardwood Forests because of Forest Management"
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March
24
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"Maintaining
the Operational Relevancy of FVS Under Conditions of a Changing Climate
and Shifting Management Metrics from Timber to Carbon"
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March
31
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"Do risk and uncertainty matter?
Maybe."
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April
07
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"Reaching
out to End Users of Decision Support Tools for Forest Management"
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April
14
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"A
Decision Support Tool for the Landscape Level Management of Bottomland
Hardwood Ecosystems of the Southeast"
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April
21
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"Decision
Rule Based Approach to Automatic Tree Crown Detection and Size Class
Estimation"
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The Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
would like to facilitate a discussion of the role of technology and
decision support tools (DST) in forest management. Researchers and
academicians often extol the benefits of integrating technological advances
into the decision making process for forest resource planning. Real time
information, scalable data sets and efficient collection methods are oft
cited as reasons to embrace innovations in data collection and analyses.
However several hurdles remain that often lead to less than optimal use of
technological innovations and decision support. The National Commission on
Science for Sustainable Forestry provides several potential reasons for
this including: 1) lack of integration of basic types of information needed
by management; 2) advances in technology and DSTs are still prototypes and
therefore not easily integrated into current forest planning processes; and
3) lack of explicit capabilities to help coordinate decision making at
different scales.
This seminar series invites the latest theories,
applications and concerns with innovations and decision support for forest
management in the context of an emerging global marketplace for timber and
ecosystem services. We hope that one outcome of this seminar will be
discussions about weaknesses in the field as well as emerging opportunities
for advancement. To this end we are inviting a number of leaders in
decision support from within the larger forest management and ecology
communities as well as graduate students from Yale to present the latest
research in decision support tool development and application. Potential
topics of discussion include innovations in inventory collection and
assessment; roles of decision support in assessing wildlife habitat, biodiversity,
and carbon stocks; decision support in education and public outreach; and
issues of technology and DSTs in operational sustainability.
This virtual seminar is intended to be a working seminar.
The seminar will take place at 12:00 pm Eastern Standard Time on Mondays in
March and April 2008. The format of the seminar series will consist of a 20
minute presentation followed by a 20 minute Question and Answer session
open to all participants. Yale will notify a list serve of interested
participants the time, the scheduled presenters, and the topic of the
upcoming seminar. Participants will be encouraged to log into the website
at the time of the seminar so that they might engage in discussions after
the 20 minute presentation. However, for those unable to make a scheduled
seminar, recordings of the presentation and question and answer sessions
will be available within 24 hours on the Eastern
Decision Support Consortium: Virtual Archive website. Detailed
instructions for accessing the virtual seminars as well as a preliminary
schedule of presentations will be emailed before each lecture as well as
posted on this website.
Presentation
Schedule:
March 10th, 2008
"The Application of Decision Support Tools
to Forest Management"
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Dr. Chad Oliver, Pinchot Professor of Forestry and
Environmental Studies, Yale University
12:00 pm (EST) - 12:40 p.m., http://130.132.156.177:8000/
March 17th, 2008
"Development
of the Sylvan Stand Structure model to describe wood quality changes in
Southern Bottomland Hardwood Forests because of Forest Management"
- Dr. David Larsen, Department Chair and
Professor, School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri-Columbia
12:00 pm (EST) - 12:40 p.m., http://130.132.156.177:8000/
March 24th, 2008
"Maintaining the Operational Relevancy of
FVS Under Conditions of a Changing Climate and Shifting Management Metrics
from Timber to Carbon"
- Nick Crookston,
Operations
Research Analyst, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service
12:00 pm (EST) - 12:40 p.m., http://130.132.156.177:8000/
March 31st, 2008
"Do
risk and uncertainty matter? Maybe."
- Dr.
Mark Ducey, Associate Professor, Forest Biometrics and Management, University
of New Hampshire
12:00 pm (EST) - 12:40 p.m., http://130.132.156.177:8000/
April 7th, 2008
"Reaching out to End Users of Decision
Support Tools for Forest Management"
- Dr. Mark
Twery, Project Leader, Northern Research Station program for Science,
Technology, and Applied Results, Northern Research Station, USDA Forest
Service
12:00 pm (EST) - 12:40 p.m., http://130.132.156.177:8000/
April 14th, 2008
"A Decision Support Tool for the Landscape
Level Management of Bottomland Hardwood Ecosystems of the Southeast"
- Aaron Hohl, Doctoral Candidate, Yale University
12:00 pm (EST) - 12:40 p.m., http://130.132.156.177:8000/
April 21st, 2008
"Decision Rule Based Approach to Automatic
Tree Crown Detection and Size Class Estimation."
- Andrew Niccolai, Doctoral Candidate, Yale University
12:00 pm (EST) - 12:40 p.m., http://130.132.156.177:8000/
Seminar
Facilitator
Andrew
Niccolai, M.F., Ph.D. candidate, Yale University
Recommended
Hardware for Seminar
The
virtual seminar is intended to reach as wide an audience as possible. To
that end, an internet connection and keyboard is all that is absolutely
essential to join. However, in order to realize the full potential of the
seminar, a sound card with built in or external speakers will enable a
participant to hear the presentation in addition to viewing the virtual auditorium
whiteboard. Additionally, a web cam and microphone will allow others to see
and hear you as a participant but this hardware is not required to join the
seminar.
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