Status and research interests

Research faculty with the Numerical Terradynamic Simulation Group.

My research interests are in land suface-atmosphere interactions and particularly

the surface energy balance and the expression of land surface temperature.

I study the impacts of large scale ecosystem disturbance on ecosystems and the

development of methodolgies to detect these disturbances using remote sensing data.

My research involves the development of ecological applications for MODIS datasets.

I am interested in biodiveristy, conservation, preservation, and particulary in forest

ecosystems.  Old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest are my favorite ecosytem on

Earth and how forest structure relates to biodiversity is a keen intersest of mine.

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Education:

B.S. 1999. Environmental Science, Portland State University, Portland OR.

M.S. 2005. Forest Science, University of Montana, Missoula, MT

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