October 7-10, 2009
Dr. David Mladenoff
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management |
"The value of historical data for ecological questions of the present and future."
Background:
A native of the Wisconsin northwoods, Dr. David J. Mladenoff is the
Beers-Bascom Professor of Conservation in the Department of Forest
and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Mladenoff earned his PhD from the UW-Madison in 1985, and held
positions in The Nature Conservancy as western region Science and
Stewardship Director, and the University of Minnesota Natural
Resources Research Institute in Duluth. He has been in Madison
again since 1994, and manages the Forest Landscape Ecology Lab at
UW. He also teaches a graduate course in Landscape Ecology.
Work in the lab has been directed at sustainable forest issues in
Wisconsin, such as old-growth forest characteristics including
structure, biodiversity, nutrient cycling, and carbon dynamics;
developing and testing methods for reconstructing past forests and
change; disturbance, ecological change and management; and modeling
of future forest landscapes under climate change and other
scenarios. Mladenoff was the originator of the LANDIS forest
model, which has been adapted and used in many locations in North
America and elsewhere. He was also Editor-in-Chief of the journal
Landscape Ecology from 1999-2005.
Reading list:
Historical forest baselines reveal potential for
continued carbon sequestration < view it >
Farms, fires, and forestry: Disturbance legacies in the soils of the
Northwest Wisconsin (USA) Sand Plain
< view it >
Response of vegetation and fire to Little Ice Age climate
change: regional continuity and landscape heterogeneity < view it >
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October 28-30, 2009
Dr. Susan L. Stout
Research Project Leader
USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station
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"A Road Less Taken: Surprises from Long-term Research"
Background:
Dr. Susan Stout is a Silviculturist/Project Leader with the US Forest Service Northern Research Station in Irvine, Pennsylvania.
Reading list:
White-Tailed Deer Impact on the Vegetation Dynamics of a Northern Hardwood Forest < view it >
Listening to Old Beech and Young Cherry Trees - Long-term Research
in the Alleghenies < view it >
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