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  • CANCELLED
    8:00am - 8:30am PST
    The Proctor Experimental Forest: A new home for ecological research and education
    Location: A10
    Author: Laura Ostrowsky, MFS – University of Minnesota
    Forest Ecology
     CFE .5
  • CANCELLED
    11:30am - 12:00pm PST
    NDVI and LST reveal land use land cover and vegetation health changes in Louisiana wetlands.
    Location: A6
    Author: Temitope Hauwa Dauda, PhD – SOUTHERN UNI. A & M COLLEGE
    Co-Author: Zhu H. Ning, Ph.D. – Southern University & A&M College
    Forest Ecology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • CANCELLED
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Forest tree competition: A method for assessing distance-dependent and independent competition indices using FIA data.
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Kelechi G. Ibeh, Masters in Forest Resources Management (he/him/his) – Mississippi State University
    Forest Ecology
  • CANCELLED
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Investigating the biology and pest potential of a bark beetle in giant sequoia
    Location: Expo Hall
    Author: Nathaniel Foote, M.S. Entomology – Colorado State University
    Forest Ecology
  • CANCELLED
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Investigating the dendroclimatological record of Engelmann spruce across a Rocky Mountain latitudinal gradient
    Location: Expo Hall
    Author: Emma L. Sautter, BSF – Northern Arizona University
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    10:30am - 10:38am PST
    Hunting for Hemlocks: Locating and Restoring Eastern Hemlock in Minnesota
    Location: A11
    Speaker: Kira Drew Pollack (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    10:30am - 12:00pm PST
    Forest Carbon Opportunities and Challenges, Climate Smart, IRA, and Beyond
    Location: A7
    Moderator: Zack Parisa – NCX
    Panelist: Sarah Hall – American Forest Foundation
    Panelist: Mike Smalligan – Michigan - DNR
    Panelist: Nikola Smith – USDA Forest Service.
    Forest Ecology
     CFE 1.5 / ISA CEU 1.5 / ESA CEU .375
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    10:40am - 10:48am PST
    Habitat Suitability Modeling: A Tool for Restoring Butternut, Juglans cinerea L., in the Eastern US.
    Location: A11
    Speaker: Segun Michael Adeyemo, MF (he/him/his) – Mississippi State University
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    11:00am - 11:08am PST
    How do we know the carbon in our forest soils? Measurement, Theory, and Management
    Location: A11
    Speaker: Michael Culbertson, M.F.S. in progress (he/him/his) – Yale Forest School, Yale School of the Environment
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    11:00am - 11:30am PST
    From mortality to complexity: a shifting understanding of eastern spruce dwarf mistletoe in lowland black spruce forests of Minnesota
    Location: A3
    Speaker: Ella Gray, PhD (she/her/hers) – Oregon State University
    Forest Ecology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    11:10am - 11:18am PST
    Fire reintroduction in oak-pine mixedwoods following an extended period of fire exclusion
    Location: A11
    Speaker: J. Davis Goode, PhD – USDA Forest Service
    Co-Author: Justin L. Hart, Ph.D. – University of Alabama
    Co-Author: Dan Dey
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    1:30pm - 3:00pm PST
    Evolution of Forest Ecology
    Location: A5
    Concurrent Session Moderator: Adam Polinko, PhD – Mississippi State University
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    1:30pm - 3:00pm PST
    Focus on the Science and Research
    Location: A3
    Concurrent Session Moderator: Matty Richards
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    1:30pm - 2:00pm PST
    Challenges and Opportunities for Integrating Ecological Connectivity into U.S Forest Service Planning and Management
    Location: A6
    Speaker: Braden Hance – Center for Large Landscape Conservation
    Forest Ecology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    1:30pm - 2:00pm PST
    Pollinator Habitat in Log Landings (PHiLL) Project
    Location: A3
    Speaker: Sloane Scott – University of Missouri Columbia
    Forest Ecology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    1:30pm - 2:00pm PST
    Sustainability and drivers of aspen regeneration and recruitment near the southwestern edge of its range
    Location: A5
    Speaker: Kristen M. Waring, PhD (she/her/hers) – Northern Arizona University
    Co-Author: Connor Crouch, PhD (he/him/his) – Northern Arizona University
    Co-Author: Margaret M. Moore, PhD (she/her/hers) – School of Forestry - Northern Arizona University
    Co-Author: Paul C. Rogers, PhD (he/him/his) – Western Aspen Alliance & Dept. Env. & Society, Utah State University
    Forest Ecology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    2:00pm - 2:30pm PST
    3DForests: Quantifying Aboveground Carbon Stocks and Fire Fuels to Inform Forest Management
    Location: A3
    Speaker: Lisa Patrick Bentley, PhD – Sonoma State University
    Forest Ecology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    2:00pm - 2:30pm PST
    Monitoring Targets and Triggers: North Yuba CFLRP
    Location: A5
    Speaker: Kristen Wilson, PhD – The Nature Conservancy, Worldwide Office - CA
    Forest Ecology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    2:30pm - 3:00pm PST
    Evaluating indicators for forest recovery on disturbed eastern hardwood sites
    Location: A3
    Speaker: Ian Kennedy, n/a – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    Forest Ecology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    2:30pm - 3:00pm PST
    Regional Resource Kits – Landscape Assessment and Treatment Planning
    Location: A5
    Speaker: Peter Stine, PhD – Climate and Wildfire Institute
    Speaker: Patricia Manley, PhD – USFS Pacific Southwest Research Station
    Speaker: John Battles, PhD – UC Berkeley
    Forest Ecology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    4:00pm - 4:08pm PST
    Invasive plants of the Southern US: use of FIA data forestry attributes
    Location: A11
    Speaker: Trisha Markus, n/a – Clemson University
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    4:10pm - 4:18pm PST
    Relation of structure, composition, and disturbance in a multi-aged longleaf pine woodland
    Location: A11
    Speaker: David L. Phillips, M.S. – University of Alabama
    Co-Author: J. Davis Goode, PhD – USDA Forest Service
    Co-Author: Justin L. Hart, Ph.D. – University of Alabama
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Oct 26th
    4:50pm - 4:58pm PST
    Seedling Based Aspen Reforestation in Burned Areas Across the Southwest
    Location: A11
    Speaker: Sarah Kapel – Utah State University
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    8:50am - 8:58am PST
    TREE SPECIES SHIFT AND CLIMATE CHANGE ACROSS CONUS IN THE PAST 20 YEARS
    Location: A11
    Speaker: Jianmin Wang, PhD – Purdue University
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    10:30am - 11:00am PST
    The Greenwood Fire in Minnesota: Response, Research and Restoration
    Location: A10
    Speaker: Laura Reuling (she/her/hers) – University of Minnesota
    Forest Ecology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    11:00am - 11:30am PST
    Quantifying forest canopy gaps and understanding gap-level forest regeneration in Upper Mississippi River floodplain forests
    Location: A6
    Speaker: Andrew R. Meier, n/a – US Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District
    Forest Ecology
     CFE .5
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    A once innocuous species, Nepytia janetae, brings novel defoliation to the Santa Fe National Forest
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Peggy De'Scoville (she/her/hers) – New Mexico Highlands University
    Co-Author: Jennifer G. Klutsch, PhD – Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre
    Co-Author: Andrew D. Graves, PhD – USDA/Forest Service/Forest Health Protection
    Co-Author: Anna Schoettle
    Co-Author: John Formby
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Assessing Combinations of Nucleation Size and Planting Density to Improve Performance of Ponderosa Pine Seedlings
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Dilshad Safiullah, MS (he/him/his) – New Mexico Highlands University
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    ASSESSING WATER RELATIONS AND CARBON DYNAMICS OF PINUS TAEDA BRANCHES UNDERGOING SHADE-INDUCED MORTALITY
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Adelodun R. Majekobaje – Louisiana State University
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Assessing Wildlife Corridor Forest Structure for Human-Elephant Conflict Mitigation in Sri Lanka
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Alina Evans (she/her/hers) – University of Nevada, Reno
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Developing a reference legacy to address contemporary challenges of old-growth in the southern United States
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: J. Davis Goode, PhD – USDA Forest Service
    Co-Author: Don Bragg
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Differences in herbaceous species composition in government cost share sites across Indiana Ecoregions
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Aubrey W. Franks – Purdue University
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Effect of the sea level rise in the coastal forest: spatial patterns of tree mortality after Hurricane Hugo.
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Siddhartha Regmi, Masters – Clemson University
    Co-Author: Bo Song, PhD – Clemson University
    Co-Author: Thomas O'Halloran, PhD – Clem
    Co-Author: Thomas Williams, PhD – Clemson University
    Co-Author: Brian Williams – Clemson University
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Effects of wind disturbance and salvage logging on regeneration in an upland oak stand
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Lucas Hales (he/him/his) – University of Alabama
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Herbaceous Seeding for Erosion Control and Restoration After High Severity Wildfire
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Ashal Shrestha, MS – New Mexico Highlands University
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    ʻIliahi (Hawaiian sandalwood) stocktype trial: matching stocktypes to planting sites
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Emily Thyroff, PhD – University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Measuring Changes in Fuel Biomass Following a Bark Beetle Outbreak in the Sierra Nevada
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Crystal Homicz (she/her/hers) – Univ of California-Davis
    Co-Author: Leif Mortenson, MS – USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station
    Co-Author: Beverly Bulaon, MS – Forest Health Protection, USDA Forest Service
    Co-Author: Christopher Fettig, PhD – Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Oak recruitment in young forests: modeling forest characteristics before disturbance and interactions with abiotic environment.
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Joshua A. Gershey (he/him/his) – Pennsylvania State University
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Shrub and invasive plant response following widespread tree mortality in the central and southern Sierra Nevada, California
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Leif Mortenson, MS – USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Spread and growth mechanisms of Chinese tallow trees in fire regulated slash pine flatwoods
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Annie C. Huckaby (she/her/hers) – Louisiana Tech University
    Author: Shaoyang Yang, PhD – Louisiana Tech University
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    THE REGENERATION NICHE IN BOTTOMLAND HARDWOOD FORESTS: COMMUNITY SORTING ALONG GRADIENTS OF WATER AND LIGHT
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Clifton Albrecht, MS – Stephen F. Austin State University
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Topographic Effects on Residual Tree Spatial Patterns after Catastrophic Wind Disturbance in Longleaf Pine Woodlands
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Aurora Baker (she/her/hers) – The University of Alabama
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Use of Drones in Wildlife Detection in Forestry
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: David L. Kulhavy, PhD – Stephen F. Austin State University
    Co-Author: Daniel R. Unger, PhD – Stephen F. Austin State University
    Co-Author: I-Kuai Hung, PhD – Stephen F. Austin State University
    Co-Author: Yanli Zhang, PhD (he/him/his) – Stephen F Austin State University
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    Western pine beetle: Important disturbance agent in western ponderosa pines and chemical ecology-based management tools.
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Jackson Audley, PhD (he/him/his) – Forest Service - Pacific Southwest Research Station
    Co-Author: Christopher Fettig, PhD – Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service
    Co-Author: Crystal Homicz (she/her/hers) – Univ of California-Davis
    Co-Author: Robert Progar
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    3:00pm - 4:00pm PST
    What factors determine the fate of hardwood trees planted on reclaimed coal mines?
    Location: Expo Hall
    Poster Presenter: Caleb Redick, MS (he/him/his) – Purdue Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Oct 27th
    4:30pm - 5:00pm PST
    The application of resilience in forest research: persistence, recovery, and adaptability
    Location: A5
    Speaker: Bryan D. Murray, PhD (he/him/his) – Oklahoma State University
    Forest Ecology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Saturday, Oct 28th
    10:30am - 11:00am PST
    Reforesting Colorado: Strategies for Success in the Face of Wildfire and Climate Change
    Location: A6
    Speaker: Zoe Hall (she/her/hers) – Land Life
    Speaker: Benjamin Bishop, MS (he/him/his) – Land Life
    Forest Ecology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125
  • Saturday, Oct 28th
    11:00am - 11:30am PST
    Forest Composition and Red Oak (Quercus sp.) response to elevation gradients across managed Greentree Reservoirs
    Location: A3
    Speaker: Cassandra Dawn Hug – University of Arkansas at Monticello - Monticello, AR
    Author: Padip Saud, n/a – College of Forestry, Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Arkansas at Monticello
    Forest Ecology
     CFE .5 / ISA CEU .5 / ESA CEU .125