Postdoctoral Research Forester
ORISE / US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Missoula, Montana, United States
Neil Williams is an ORISE postdoctoral fellow with the Rocky Mountain Research Station (Missoula) of the US Forest Service. Much of his current work focuses on the silviculture and ecology of northern Rocky Mountain forests, with particular emphasis on ponderosa pine and western larch-dominated moist mixed-conifer forests. His research incorporates fieldwork, modeling, and data synthesis to help address forest management challenges. He has broad research interests, including stand dynamics, ecological silviculture, multi-aged silviculture, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and disturbance ecology.
Neil's educational and professional background is in silviculture, climate change mitigation and adaptation in the forest sector, and biodiversity conservation. He has worked on project-, and national-scale forest carbon accounting in the tropics under the REDD+ framework, and also managed initiatives aiming to increase the climate change mitigation potential and diversify adaptation strategies on industrial timberlands in North America. Although much of his current research is at the stand- and meso-scale, he also has experience at the landscape-scale, using forest landscape modeling to understand the implications of changes in climate and disurbance regimes for resource values.
Applying diverse silvicultural tools to guide change in Rocky Mountain forests
Wednesday, September 18, 2024
1:40 PM – 1:48 PM MST
