Future Directions for Hurricane Disturbed Forests
Webinar Details
When:
Oct 21, 2024 12:00 pm US/Eastern
Length: 01:30 (hh:mm)
Advance Registration NOT required.
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Presenter(s):
- Dr. Christine Cairns Fortuin - Assistant Professor, College of Forest Resources, Mississippi State University
- Dr. Jeffery Cannon - Landscape Ecologist, Jones Center at Ichauway
- Dr. Robert Chastain - Senior Remote Sensing Specialist, RedCastle Resources
- Dr. Michael Crosby - Associate Professor, Louisiana Tech University
- Dr. Jesse Henderson - Research Economist, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station
- Dr. Bruno Kanieski da Silva - Assistant Professor, University of Georgia
- Dr. Adam Polinko - Assistant Professor, Department of Forestry, Mississippi State University
- Dr. Shaun Tanger - Associate Professor, College of Forestry, Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Arkansas at Monticello
CEU Credits/Certificate Offered:
- New York Logger Training - Trained Logger Certification (NYLT-TLC) - .25 hour NYLT TLC Credit [credits applied for]
- Certificate of Participation
- Georgia Master Timber Harvester - Continuing Logger Ed. (GaMTH CLE) - 1.5 hour CLE - MTH Category B Credit
Virtual Event Format:
Group Viewing Available:
Join Experts from silviculture, forest economics, forest management and operations, and geospatial disciples in a panel discussion on the potential opportunities and challenges for research and outreach related to hurricane disturbed forest. The panel will outline the needs and collaborations necessary for advancing current research and explore unknown and underappreciated issues related to the topic. The audience is also invited to ask questions to our panel and provide insight into the conversation.
This webinar is the second of two webinars. The first webinar, Current Research in Hurricane Disturbed Forests, shared results from recent research exploring dynamics of hurricane impacted forests. These include how stand and tree characteristics influence damage severity after a catastrophic hurricane disturbance, how those characteristics interact with silvicultural regimes, as well as new tools that aid decision-makers with damage assessment and salvage efforts.
About Our Presenter(s)
Dr. Christine Cairns Fortuin is an Assistant Professor in the College of Forest Resources at Mississippi State University. Dr. Fortuin utilizes a combination of field work, satellite data analysis and spatial modeling to characterize and predict impacts of severe wind events (hurricane, tornado and severe thunderstorm events) in southern U.S. forests, including developing predictive models of tree damage severity resulting from severe wind events at the landscape scale, determining effects of prior forest management and stand-level characteristics on damage levels at the local scale, and determining impacts of severe wind events on forest stand structure and resulting pest and pollinator invertebrate communities. Dr. Fortuin received her Ph.D from the University of Georgia in Forestry and Natural Resources in 2020.
Dr. Jeffery Cannon is a Landscape Ecologist at the Jones Center at Ichauway. His lab's research focuses on hurricane ecology, restoration of pine ecosystems of the U.S., and emphasizes technology application in forestry and conservation. Jeff holds a B.S. in Biological Sciences from Mississippi State University (2009), an M.S. in Biology from the University of Mississippi (2011), and a Ph.D. in Plant Biology from the University of Georgia (2015).
Dr. Robert Chastain, is a Senior Remote Sensing Specialist at RedCastle Resources. Dr. Chastain leads the Trees-DIP project for RedCastle at their Geospatial Technology and Applications Center. Trees-DIP is a rapid response tool that provide initial forest damage assessments for Hurricane impacts and is used operationally by the US Forest Service. Dr. Chastain received his Ph.D from the University of Maryland in 2004.
Dr. Michael Crosby, is an Associate Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing at Louisiana Tech University. He teaches spatial technology courses in the School of Agricultural Sciences and Forestry. His research interests are spatial applications in natural resources, disaster/disturbance assessment and modeling, and urban forestry. Dr. Crosby received his Ph.D from Mississippi State University in Forestry and Natural Resources in 2011.
Dr. Jesse Henderson is a Research Economist at the Southern Research Station with the US Forest Service. The goal of Dr. Henderson’s research is to develop models that accurately describe forest ecology, heterogeneous human objectives and behavior, and their interaction over time and space. His research in forest economics is related to forest product markets, trade and forest disturbances, with applications at parcel, regional, national and global scales. Dr. Henderson completed his doctoral work at North Carolina State University in 2019 in Forest Economics.
Dr. Bruno Kanieski da Silva is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia, specializing in Forest Finance. He holds a Ph.D. in Forest Economics and an M.A. in Economics from North Carolina State University, as well as an M.S. in Forestry from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His research interests include forest finance and economics, timber markets, and modeling. Dr. Silva has extensive experience in both academia and industry, having worked as a Forest Economist in multiple projects in the US South and Latin America.
Dr. Adam Polinko is an Assistant Professor of Silviculture in the Department of Forestry at Mississippi State University His research focuses on quantitative approaches to silviculture and forest stand dynamics. He holds BS and MS degrees in forestry from Northern Arizona University and a Ph.D. in forestry from the University of British Columbia.
Dr. Shaun Tanger is an Associate Professor of Forest Policy and Trade in the College of Forestry, Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Dr. Tanger’s research program is currently focused on examining interstate carbon leakage and carbon market participation under various tax structure alternatives. Shaun received his Ph.D. from Auburn University in Forest Economics and Policy (2009).
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