Associate Professor of Forestry
Department of Forestry and Geology
The University of the South
Sewanee, TN 37383
Watershed Research Project:
I am currently participating in a collaborative research project funded through the Appalachian Colleges Association. Entitled "Collaboration Through Appalachian Watershed Studies", the purpose of the grant is to foster collaborative environmental research and teaching among ACA institutions. Faculty at the 7 ACA institutions (The University of the South, Ferrum College, Lindsey Wilson College, Davis and Elkins College, King College, Montreat College, and West Virginia Wesleyan) share their expertise in different areas of environmental monitoring, focusing on individual watersheds located near each of the institutions. The colleges range from Middle Tennessee to Eastern Virginia and West Virginia and provide opportunities for students to compare watershed processes across the Appalachian region. During the summer of 2001, student interns funded through the project, along with Forestry and Geology Faculty from Sewanee installed a recording weather station and began the installation of a stream flow monitoring flume on the Domain. More information is available on the Sewanee Watershed Website.
The Department of Forestry and Geology along with faculty from two of the institutions (Ferrum College, and West Virginia Wesleyan College) are also part of a separate watershed research study grant ( Research Opportunities for Collaboration in the Appalachians) administered by the University of Maryland's Appalachian Laboratory and funded through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
My research interests include hardwood silviculture, forest stand dynamics in response to disturbance, silvics of non-commercial hardwoods, and urban forest management. My current projects focus on the ecology of forested watersheds, species composition and growth of a high quality hardwood site after disturbance, the biodiversity of understory plant species in planted pine, the effects of deer browse on the regeneration of hardwood seedlings, and the identification, assessment, and mapping of trees in the University's central campus using GIS technology.
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