PROJECT MEMBERS

Peter Schiess (MCMC Professor) Timber harvest, road access and transportation planning as a subset of landscape level analysis. Road and transportation issues in relation to stream habitat conservation, the tradeoffs between environmental and economic concerns as they relate to logging operations and access.

Capstone Design
Road Density Reduction
Empirical Landslide Probability
Cumulative Impacts
Road Spacing and Yarding Distance

GIS-based road access planning

Finn Krogstad (Doctoral Candidate) Water and sediment impacts of roads and harvest, GIS-based design support tools, quantification of impacts, and data analysis.

Road Density Reduction
Empirical Landslide Probability
Cumulative Impacts

Weikko Jaross (Graduate Student) landscape scale operations planning and the tradeoffs between road spacing and yarding distances

Capstone Design
Road Spacing and Yarding Distance

 

Luke Rogers (Graduate Student) creating engineering design tools in the GIS environment, custom GIS applications.

Capstone Design
Road Density Reduction
GIS-based road access planning

 

Florentiu Damian (Graduate Student) evaluating the utility of high resolution laser mapping in operations planning.