WFGRS 2015 | Graduate Symposium

From the Ground Up: Making Your Research Matter

The 2015 Western Forestry Graduate Research Symposium was scheduled for April 27th and 28th. Graduate students from Oregon and surrounding states had the opportunity to present posters and/or give oral presentations. The symposium was organized entirely by graduate students from within the College of Forestry. A list of the students who planned the 2015 WFGRS can be found here.

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The winners at the 2015 Western Forestry Graduate Research Symposium!

Oral Presentation
1st Overall: Adrian Gallo
1st FES: Jonathan Batchelor
1st FERM: Kris Richardson
1st WSE: Raul Dan
1st Runner Up: Hailey Buckingham
2nd Runner Up: April Strid

Poster:
1st Overall: Amy Comstock
1st FES: Sky Lan
1st FERM: Kat Morici
1st Runner Up: Sarah Greenleaf
2nd Runner Up: Jen Johnston
3rd Runner Up: Jonathan Denger

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Monday Presentations

Spatial Optimization of Restoration in Fire Prone Forests: Tradeoffs and Production Possibility Frontiers - Kevin Vogler
HJA Day Experiences: Examining Learning Outcomes at an Adult Science Education Event - Lauren Remenick
Restoration of Riparian Areas Following the Removal of Cattle in the Northwestern Great Basin - Jonathan Batchelor
Diversity in the Outdoors: Student Attitudes About Wilderness in the National Outdoor Leadership School - Sara Gress
Sediment Transport Prototypes: Novel Methods to Disconnect Roads from Streams - Erica Kemp
Environmental Effects of Wood Substitution in Commercial Construction - Kristina Milaj
“A Beautiful River that Eats People”: The Value of Streamflow for the Salmon River Bioregion - Brett Alan Miller
Full-scale Diaphragm Connection Testing of Structural CLT Panels - Kyle Sullivan
Role of storms and forestry practices in sedimentation in an Oregon Coast Range Lake - Kris Richardson
Effective adhesive systems and optimal bonding parameters for hybrid CLT - Blake Larkin
Could you be more obvious? Exploring the value of argument analysis as a tool of transparency in natural resource management decision-making processes - Chelsea Batavia
Land Managers And Geocachers: The Potential For Impact Goes Both Ways - Dianna Fisher
Machine Learning and Wildfire: Using simulated landscapes to learn fire suppression policies - Hailey Buckingham
Application of extracted fungal pigments as natural colorants on monocotyledons - Sarath Vega Gutierrez
Preliminary assessment to the fungal colonization on Douglas-fir, western red cedar and red alder in ground contact exposure - Paola Torres Andrade (no slides available)

Tuesday Presentations

Keynote: Forest Pathology: The Future of our Forests and Forest Pathologists - Kristen Chadwick
Finite element analysis to predict in-forest stored biomass moisture content - Francisca Belart (no slides available)
Fracture and fatigue in wood-based materials - Babek Mirzaei
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of Poplar Plantations Global warming potential and energy consumption in the US PNW - Marcia Vasquez-Sandoval
A Trait-Based Approach to Understanding Meadow Species Abundance Across a Conifer Encroachment Gradient - Jessica Celis
Effects of height and live crown ratio imputation strategies on stand biomass estimation - Elijah J. Allensworth
Stand-level estimates of available water holding capacity: the missing piece in the site quality puzzle? - Henry Rodman
Assessing Spatial Distribution and Availability of Forest Biomass by Harvesting System in the Pacific Northwest, USA - Michael Berry
Biophysical responses in soil following intensive biomass removal - Adrian C. Gallo
Douglas-fir Stem Modeling Using a Terrestrial Laser Scanner - Richard Gabriel
Does the quality of litter inputs affect dissolved organic carbon (DOC) biochemistry in H.J. Andrews Andisols? - April Strid
Optimal Harvesting Model for Mountain Ginseng (Panax ginseng) Production in South Korea - Hee Han
Changing pattern of water use by Faidherbia albida during rainy season in Mojo, Ethiopia - Jeannette Krampien
Interconnectedness of Forest Ecosystem Services, Environmental corporate impacts, and Corporate Social Responsibility activities in the Amazon rainforest - Raul Dancé
An Introduction of China’s Forest Products Markets - Xiaoou Han

Peter Hayes

Peter and his family own and care for working forest lands in the northern Oregon Coast Range. Their restoration forestry business, Hyla Woods, experiments with models of forestry and grower-consumer partnerships that lead to enriched forests and sustained people. Peter’s community involvements include recent service on the Oregon Board of Forestry, leadership of the Build Local Alliance, and service on several non-profit boards.

Kristen Chadwick

Kristen Chadwick is a forest pathologist with USDA, Forest Service, Forest Health Protection (FHP). Her career with Forest Health Protection started in 2002 and has given her the opportunity to work with forest health related issues throughout Oregon and Washington with a variety of Federal Land Managers ranging from the Forest Service, National Park Service, Tribal, and The Bureau of Land Management. She has been working with the FHP Westside Insect and Disease Service Center, based out of Sandy Oregon, for the past six years focusing on western Oregon and Washington forest ecology and disturbances. With FHP Kristen provides technical assistance to federal land managers covering a range of topics and specialties from native and non-native forest diseases, disease impact modeling, training for identification and management of insects and diseases, silvicultural prescription input and review, participation on interdisciplinary teams, and hazard tree training and identification. Kristen’s passions include working on administrative studies in the high-elevation environments with Whitebark pine and subalpine fir and working with land managers to incorporate the best available science into their management practices.

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Thank you to our 2015 WFGRS Planning Committee!