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After 3 years as a Software Engineer in
Boston, I decided that I needed to focus my
programming skills on building tools to solve problems that I
actually care about. So, I became interested in how my
background in Computer Science could be applied to research in
Forest Science. Now I am working with Warren Cohen to improve
the TimeSync application. My graduate research will focus on
combining Landsat and MODIS imagery to use plant phenology as an
indicator for growth trajectories of early successional forests
in disturbed stands. Oregon
attracted me because it offers everything that I need: good
beer, deep snow, big mountains, and some of the best concrete
skateparks in the country. With that said, I enjoy spending my
time riding BMX, snowboarding, traveling, going on adventures,
and simply having outside.
Dissertation working title:
Using phenology as an indicator for growth
trajectories of early successional forests in disturbed stands |
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During my
MS research on wildfire severity and carbon dynamics , I became fascinated with the
complex interplay between insect and fire disturbances.
Defoliators (spruce budworm) and bark beetles (mountain pine
beetle) had caused substantial tree mortality across a landscape
that subsequently burned, and it seemed very likely that these
insects played an important, if not defining, role in the
subsequent fire behavior and effects. Now I investigate
insect-fire interactions full time at a landscape-to-regional
scale. Working with Robert Kennedy and LARSE colleagues, I am
mapping insect and fire activity in the Oregon Cascades with
field, aerial survey, and LandTrendr satellite observations.
Oregon hosts no shortage of beautiful views to photograph and
dynamic forests to explore (i.e. plenty of dead trees to
survey!) Dissertation working
title:
Multi-scale interactions of insect and wildfire
disturbance: Synthesis of field, aerial, and satellite
observations across Oregon and Washington forests since 1984 |
Garrett Meigs
PhD Student
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Research interests: Satellite remote sensing of forest structure
and ecosystem function, land cover and land-use change from
local to global scales, mapping peatlands for global carbon
research.
Dissertation working title: Integrating
lidar and multispectral data for mapping riparian vegetation |
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