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  • Wednesday, Sep 18th
    11:30 AM – 12:00 PM MST
    Developing Multi-Species Habitat Suitability Models to Enhance Bottomland Hardwood Forest Regeneration
    Location: Embassy Suites, River Birch B
    Speaker: Segun M. Adeyemo, n/a (he/him/his) – Mississippi State University
    Forest Ecology
  • Wednesday, Sep 18th
    11:40 AM – 11:48 AM MST
    Microclimate variability within cloud forest tree canopies: Exploring effects of land management and epiphyte removal
    Location: Embassy Suites, Snowberry
    Speaker: Damon Vaughan, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Kentucky
    Co-Author: Lauren Lowman, PhD – Wake Forest University
    Co-Author: Nalini Nadkarni, PhD – University of Utah
    Co-Author: Todd Dawson, PhD – University of California, Berkeley
    Co-Author: Elenter Cubero – Universidad de Costa Rica
    Co-Author: Pablo Gutierrez – Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
    Co-Author: Sybil Gotsch, PhD – University of Kentucky
    Forest Ecology
  • Wednesday, Sep 18th
    1:30 PM – 3:00 PM MST
    Putting the Wild in Wildlife through Active Forest Management
    Location: Embassy Suites, Aspen Daisy
    Speaker: Patricia D. Dorsey, n/a (she/her/hers) – National Wild Turkey Federation
    Speaker: Doug Little, CWB – National Wild Turkey Federation
    Speaker: Jared McJunkin, CWB – National Wild Turkey Federation
    Moderator: Mike Mitchener, n/a – National Wild Turkey Federation
    Forest Ecology
  • Wednesday, Sep 18th
    1:30 PM – 2:00 PM MST
    1 - Why We Need to Manage for Young Forests
    Location: Embassy Suites, Aspen Daisy
    Speaker: Doug Little, CWB – National Wild Turkey Federation
    Forest Ecology
  • Wednesday, Sep 18th
    2:00 PM – 2:30 PM MST
    2 - From Savannas to Shade Tolerance - The Importance of Openings to Wildlife
    Location: Embassy Suites, Aspen Daisy
    Speaker: Jared McJunkin, CWB – National Wild Turkey Federation
    Forest Ecology
  • Wednesday, Sep 18th
    2:30 PM – 3:00 PM MST
    3 - Mature Forests, Rare Species and Wildfire Resilience
    Location: Embassy Suites, Aspen Daisy
    Speaker: Patricia D. Dorsey, n/a (she/her/hers) – National Wild Turkey Federation
    Forest Ecology
  • Wednesday, Sep 18th
    4:30 PM – 5:00 PM MST
    Managed Wildfire Impacts on Carbon Stocks in Yosemite National Park
    Location: Embassy Suites, River Birch B
    Speaker: Kristin Nesbit, MS (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Forest Ecology
  • Wednesday, Sep 18th
    4:50 PM – 4:58 PM MST
    Forest Herbicide Treatments Support Wild Bee Communities in Working Loblolly Pine Stands
    Location: Embassy Suites, Snowberry
    Speaker: Emma L. Briggs, M.S. – University of Georgia
    Forest Ecology
  • Wednesday, Sep 18th
    5:00 PM – 5:30 PM MST
    Experimental Forests and Ranges: Using Data From the Past to Inform Decisions of the Future
    Location: Embassy Suites, River Birch C
    Speaker: Scott J. Bradfield, n/a – Rocky Mountain Research Station
    Forest Ecology
  • Wednesday, Sep 18th
    5:20 PM – 5:28 PM MST
    Fuel loading after steep slope salvage logging in the southern Rocky Mountains
    Location: Embassy Suites, Snowberry
    Speaker: Kenna Ellis, MFS – Yale School of the Environment
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    8:00 AM – 8:08 AM MST
    Longleaf pine damage from extreme winds
    Location: Embassy Suites, Snowberry
    Speaker: Andrew W. Whelan, MS Ecology – The Jones Center at Ichauway
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    8:00 AM – 8:30 AM MST
    Climate Mediated Increases in Background Mortality in Temperate Rainforests of the Pacific Northwest
    Location: Embassy Suites, River Birch B
    Speaker: Ella R. Gray, PhD (she/her/hers) – Oregon State University
    Co-Author: David Bell
    Co-Author: Matthew Powers
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    8:20 AM – 8:28 AM MST
    Prescribed fire as a management tool for wild insect pollinators in southern pine forests
    Location: Embassy Suites, Snowberry
    Speaker: Elise B. McDonald, n/a (she/her/hers) – University of Georgia
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:00 AM – 9:08 AM MST
    UAV-based detection and assessment of Brown Spot Needle Blight severity .
    Location: Embassy Suites, Snowberry
    Speaker: Swati Singh – Auburn university
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Assessing Pine Flatwood Wetland Functional Capacity in Mitigation Sites Managed with Fire and Mowing
    Location: McKee Hall
    Speaker: Jaybus Price, n/a – US Army Corps of Engineers
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Assessing Species Compositional Shift and Carbon Stocks of Forest Fragments Within Agricultural Landscapes of Ghana
    Location: McKee Hall
    Speaker: Bernard A. Nyanzu, n/a – Yale University
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Bayesian modeling of historic American chestnut distribution and abundance using witness tree data
    Location: McKee Hall
    Speaker: Jed Siebert, MS (he/him/his) – University of New Hampshire
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Documenting Instances of Pseudo-Serotiny in Sugar Pine (Pinus lambertiana) Within the Dixie Fire
    Location: McKee Hall
    Poster Presenter: Jillian Eymann, n/a – Cal Poly Humboldt
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Effects of drought on tree radial growth of two southern pine species in northern Alabama
    Location: McKee Hall
    Poster Presenter: Wil Briggs, n/a – Alabama A&M University
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Effects of Eastern Redcedar Treatment on Prescribed Fire in Upland Xeric Oak Forests
    Location: McKee Hall
    Poster Presenter: Sydny Hager, B.S. Natural Resource Ecology & Management - Forestry – Oklahoma State University
    Author: Ryan DeSantis, PhD – Oklahoma State University
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Evaluating the Impacts of Fuel Treatments on Burn Severity Across the Front Range
    Location: McKee Hall
    Speaker: Sarah Hettema, n/a – Colorado State University
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Exploratory Study of Gas Fluxes in Trees at Varying Heights, Seasons, and Elevations
    Location: McKee Hall
    Poster Presenter: Glory Ade Iorliam, n/a (she/her/hers) – New Mexico State University
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    From Christmas Trees to Oak Woodland: Managing for Ecological Restoration and Resiliency
    Location: McKee Hall
    Speaker: Arianna Camponuri, MF – Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    High resolution tree canopy cover data products likely benefit estimates from urban tree inventories
    Location: McKee Hall
    Speaker: Laura Hanna, MS (she/her/hers) – Colorado State University
    Author: Christina Herrick – University of New Hampshire
    Author: Alexander Young, MS – University of New Hampshire
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Impacts of Concentrated Thinning in Pinyon-Juniper in San Cristobal, New Mexico
    Location: McKee Hall
    Poster Presenter: Peggy S. De'Scoville, B.S. Forestry (she/her/hers) – New Mexico Highlands University
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Land-Use History and Invasion Dynamics of Glossy Buckthorn (Frangula alnus)
    Location: McKee Hall
    Speaker: Christopher A. Hohnholt, MS, BCE – Michigan Technological University
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Pollinator Habitat in Log Landings (PHiLL) Project: Effects of Subsoiling, Biochar, & Seeding on Vegetation
    Location: McKee Hall
    Speaker: Sloane Scott, n/a – University of Missouri Columbia
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Quantifying Conifer Water-Use During Spring Onset: An Integrated Stable Water and Bulk Carbon Isotope Study
    Location: McKee Hall
    Speaker: Joshua Snarski, MS – University of Connecticut
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Root herbivory of Mountain huckleberry seedlings—An important species for Northwest forest restoration
    Location: McKee Hall
    Speaker: Andrew Nelson, Ph.D (he/him/his) – University of Idaho
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Socio-economic drivers of ethnobotanical knowledge and species vulnerability among indigenous communities in Eastern Cameroon
    Location: McKee Hall
    Speaker: Jules Christian Zekeng, Sr., Zekeng (he/him/his) – Department of Forest Engineering, Advanced Teachers Training School for Technical Education, University of Douala, P.O Box 1872 Douala Cameroon
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Structure and Spatial Patterns of Longleaf Pine Woodlands in the Fall Line Hills, Alabama
    Location: McKee Hall
    Speaker: David L. Phillips, M.S. – University of Alabama
    Co-Author: Justin L. Hart, Ph.D. – University of Alabama
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Tornado Impacts on the Structure and Composition of an Upland Oak Forest in Southern Indiana
    Location: McKee Hall
    Speaker: Lauren Pile Knapp, PhD (she/her/hers) – USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Tree seedlings in the forest understory of second-growth Oak-Hardwood Forests.
    Location: McKee Hall
    Poster Presenter: Grace C. Dominic, n/a – Yale School of the Environment
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Trends in Fire Severity in New Mexico from 1980 to 2016
    Location: McKee Hall
    Poster Presenter: Noah Aragon, n/a – New Mexico Highlands University
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Vachellia xanthophloea Regeneration Dynamics in the Makuleke Wetlands of Northern Kruger National Park
    Location: McKee Hall
    Poster Presenter: Kianie B. David, n/a – University of Nebraska-Lincoln
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    9:30 AM – 10:30 AM MST
    Wild Bee Communities in Managed Pine Straw Stands
    Location: McKee Hall
    Poster Presenter: Elise B. McDonald, n/a (she/her/hers) – University of Georgia
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    2:40 PM – 2:48 PM MST
    Geographic Variation of Lodgepole Pine Drought Resilience in Western U.S. Forests
    Location: Embassy Suites, Snowberry
    Author: Katarina Warnick – Colorado State University
    Speaker: Wade Tinkham, n/a (he/him/his) – Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
    Author: Mike Battaglia, PhD (he/him/his) – USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
    Author: Sarah Hart, PhD – Colorado State University
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    4:10 PM – 4:18 PM MST
    Quantifying Site Index and Growth Efficiency in Plantation Grown Longleaf Pine
    Location: Embassy Suites, Snowberry
    Speaker: Jabryan T. Pegues, n/a – Mississippi State University
    Co-Author: Adam Polinko (he/him/his) – Department of Forestry, Mississippi State University
    Co-Author: Puhlick Joshua
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    4:20 PM – 4:28 PM MST
    Tree mortality due to hurricanes and associated variables in the coastal forest of South Carolina.
    Location: Embassy Suites, Snowberry
    Speaker: Siddhartha Regmi, Ph.D – Clemson University
    Forest Ecology
  • Thursday, Sep 19th
    4:30 PM – 5:00 PM MST
    The Impacts of Structural Diversity on Forest Productivity Under Drought
    Location: Embassy Suites, Elderberry
    Speaker: Lu Zhai, n/a (he/him/his) – Oklahoma State University
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    9:30 AM – 10:00 AM MST
    Northern Colorado’s 2020 Fires Facing Slower Vegetation Recovery in High-elevation Forests Burned at High Severity
    Location: Embassy Suites, River Birch C
    Speaker: Miles Innes, n/a (he/him/his) – Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    9:50 AM – 9:58 AM MST
    Understanding how climate change may affect the distribution of aspen across the Southern Rocky Mountains
    Location: Embassy Suites, Snowberry
    Speaker: Sarah Hart, PhD – Colorado State University
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    10:10 AM – 10:18 AM MST
    Mapping Callery Pear Distribution in Southeast US using Sentinel-2 and Google Earth Engine
    Location: Embassy Suites, Snowberry
    Speaker: Kavi R. Awasthi, n/a – Clemson University
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    11:00 AM – 11:30 AM MST
    A Comparative Analysis of Plant Functional Groups in Eucalyptus and Pine Plantations of West-Central Louisiana
    Location: Embassy Suites, River Birch B
    Speaker: Andrea De Stefano, PhD – Louisiana State University Agricutural Center
    Speaker: Kana Furukawa (she/her/hers) – Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
    Co-Author: Noah A. Howie, n/a (he/him/his) – Louisiana State University Agricultural Center
    Forest Ecology
  • Friday, Sep 20th
    11:30 AM – 12:00 PM MST
    Reforesting the Mississippi River Delta: Leveraging Remote Sensing Data to Predict Carbon Sequestration
    Location: Embassy Suites, River Birch B
    Speaker: Catherine Chamberlain, n/a (she/her/hers) – The Nature Conservancy
    Forest Ecology