INVENTORY FORESTER / SOFTWARE SPECIALIST POSITION Available at Mason, Bruce & Girard, Inc.. The successful applicant will join the Technical Services Group as an inventory forester and software specialist. As an inventory forester, the incumbent will use a broad range of inventory and other data to help answer strategic and tactical business questions. As a software specialist, the successful applicant will work with the Technical Services group and Technical Services Manager to design, document, code, and support software for forest inventory, growth and yield, and other forestry functions. Requirements include: MS or MF in forest biometrics or mensuration. Demonstrated experience with inventory analysis. Demonstrated experience in developing software to support forest inventory. Skills: Strong verbal and written communications. Ability and desire to work in a fast - paced, team environment. Experience with at least one relational database package, including database design and programming. Programming experience in C or C++. FORTRAN, BASIC, and SQL experience are highly desirable. General computer skills, including word processing and spreadsheets. Familiarity with GIS is desirable. Send resume, salary history, and names of three references to: David C. Hamlin, Technical Services Manager, Mason, Bruce & Girard, Inc., Portland, OR 97205 USA. Fax: +1-503- 224 - 6524. E-mail: dhamlin@masonbruce.com. (use Text only for applications, please.)
Brooker, L., M. Brooker, and P. Cale. 1999. Animal dispersal in fragmented habitat: measuring habitat connectivity, corridor use, and dispersal mortality. Conservation Ecology [online]3(1): 4. Available from the Internet. URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol3/iss1/art4
Chen, Jinhua; Abe, Nobuyuki. 1999. Site classification for Sugi plantations using GIS. Journal of Forest Planning 5(1):1-8.
Corona, Piermaria; Leone, Vittorio; Saracino, Antonio. 1998. Plot size and shape for the early assessment of post-fire regeneration in Aleppo Pine Stands. New Forests 16 (3):213-220
Costa, Pedro Moura; Wilson, Charlie. 1999. An equivalence factor between CO2 avoided emissions and sequestration - description and applications in forestry. Draft. 8 p. For a copy contact: EcoSecurities Ltd, The Delawarr House, 45 Raleigh Park Road, Oxford OX2 9AZ, UK. Tel:+ (44) 1865 202 635; Fax + (44) 1865 251 438. E-mail: uk@ecosecurities.com. URL: http://www.ecosecurities.com
Costa, Pedro Moura; Stuart, Marc; Pinard, Michelle; Philips, Gareth. 1999. Issues related to monitoring, verification and certification of forestry-based carbon offset projects. For a copy contact: EcoSecurities Ltd, The Delawarr House, 45 Raleigh Park Road, Oxford OX2 9AZ, UK. Tel:+ (44) 1865 202 635; Fax + (44) 1865 251 438. uk@ecosecurities.com. URL: http://www.ecosecurities.com
Downes, G.M. et al. 1997. Sampling plantation Eucalypts for wood and fibre properties. CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products/University of Melbourne/North Forest Products/University of Tasmania 144 p. Price: $100.00 Australian. Abstract at: http://www.publish.csiro.au/books/detail.cfm?Key=1424
Engelman, Robert. 1999. Population and environment. Foreign Policy In Focus 4(14):1-3. URL: http:www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org.
Inoue, Akio. 1999. Estimation of crown closure through line sampling. Journal of Forest Planning 5(1):35-38.
Jusoff, Kamaruzaman. 1999. Monitoring of forest area change using satellite data with special emphasis on Sungai Bulho Forest Reserve, Malaysia. Journal of Forest Planning 5(1):9-12.
Jusoff, Kamaruzaman, Surep, Aswati. 1999. Mapping of "green" cover using LANDSAT TM - A case study in Putrajaya New Township, Malaysia. Journal of Forest Planning 5(1):39-46.
NŠsset, Erik. 1999. Assessing the effect of erroneous placement of forest stand boundaries on the estimated area of individual stands. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 14(2): 175-181.
Newton, Peter F. 1999. Scale-performance of sequential and double sampling designs for point-density estimation within coniferous seedling populations. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 14(1):86-96.
Pineda, P.; Marmillod, D.; Ferreira, P. 1998. Diseo y aplicacin de un inventario forestal diversificado (productos maderables y no maderables) en PetÚn, Guatemala. In: BOLFOR; CIFOR; IUFRO. Memorias del Simposio internacional sobre Posibilidades de manejo forestal sostenible en AmÚrica Tropical. Santa Cruz, Bolivia, Proyecto de Manejo Forestal Sostenible; 264-269.
Tomppo, E.; Goulding, C.; Katila, M. 1999. Adapting Finnish multi-source forest inventory techniques to the New Zealand preharvest inventory. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 14(2):182-192.
See also http://www.agnic.org/mtg/99k.html
29 June 1999. (Reminder) GIS Workshop. The Westin Atlanta Airport, 4736 Best Road, Atlanta, GA 30337 USA. Free. Contact Ken Dunn, Pacific Meridian Resources, Tel: +1-770-953-4143, Email (kdunn@pacificmeridian.com), or register online at: http://pacificmeridian.com/register/index2.html
16-23 July 2000. Geoinformation for all. XIX Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Contact: Congrex Holland BV, XIX ISPRS Congress, P.O. Box 302, 1000 AH Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Tel: +31-20-50-40-203. Fax: +31-20-50-40-225. Email: isprs@congrex.nl. URL: http://www.congrex.com
The Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study Report - http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/forestry/APFSOS/APFSOSHM.htm
>From our friend Nelson Wong - Virtual Library on Agriculture & Forestry - http://www.ethbib.ethz.ch/virtuell/100/sg100_e.html
In the 18 June FIU, I asked for your favorite inventory related publications and links. Here is what I have received thus far. Thanks to all who responded. Gyde
FAVORITE PUBLICATIONS
>From Ken LAUSTSEN:
Shiver, B.D.; Borders, B.E. 1996. Sampling Techniques for Forest Resource Inventory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. John Bell and Associates. Inventory and Cruising Newsletter. See http://www.proaxis.com/~johnbell/
FAVORITE LINKS
>From Daniel-Yves ALEXANDRE:
http://www.valdosta.edu/~grissino/classic.htm#Specific and
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/users/mount/treering.html - Sites on tree rings, not really on forest resource inventory but useful for growth analysis.
>From Ken LAUSTSEN: Forestworld - http://www.forestworld.com
>From John J. MOELLER: Don't forget the NSDI clearinghouse and the growing number of metadata records it contains that cover all kinds of geographic information. (http://www.fgdc.gov/nsdi/nsdi.html) .
>From Bill DISBROW- http://www.reo.gov. This site is under your major issues category. They are currently gearing up to provide clearinghouse services to some extent, as well.
>From Maksym POLYAKOV - There are few links about national forest inventories:
http://www.ifn.fr/pages/index-gb.html and http://www.resgeom.slu.se/eng/prod/projekt/rikstax/default.htm
>From Bruce G. MARCOT: USGS's Power Analysis of Monitoring Programs - http://www.im.nbs.gov/powcase/powcase.html; Inventory and Monitoring Institute- http://www.fs.fed.us/institute/;
B.C. Ministry of Forests' Adaptive Management Home Page - http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/amhome/amhome.htm;
Making Monitoring Work for Managers (Lee and Bradshaw, USFS): http://www.icbemp.gov/spatial/lee_monitor/begin.html
>From Maury NYQUIST - How about the ever popular National Park Service vegetation mapping program? - http://biology.usgs.gov/npsveg/.
>From Andrea ATKINSON - "Your request for information was forwarded to me. I'm attaching my list of interesting web pages in Word 97 format. Most are links to large-scale ecosystem management programs, plus other web pages of interest". Note: Andrea's very informative list was too long to include in this FIU. If any of you are interested, however, please send me an email with ANDREA's list on the subject line. I will then send you his list as an in whatever format you specify. Thanks,
Gyde
As always, please share as appropriate.
If you have any publications, meetings or links that may be of interest to the Forestry community, I would be happy to help you pass along the information. Thanks, Gyde
H. Gyde Lund
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