Welcome to the 2021 Western Forestry Graduate Research Symposium! Hosted annually by the College of Forestry, WFGRS (pronounced “woof-grrs”) showcases current graduate student research and is an opportunity to build community, give and receive feedback, and promote interdisciplinary collaboration. In the space below, you’ll find student presentations, posters, and a keynote presentation from Dr. Crystal Kolden to kick everything off. Please join us in celebrating student research and reflecting on this year’s theme: Regenerate.
Western Forestry Graduate Research Symposium Virtual Conference 2021
9:00- 10:00 Opening Remarks and Keynote Speaker Dr. Crystal Kolden
Rethinking how we measure wildfires: putting the 2020 fire season in context
AM Concurrent Session A
10:10 Claire Tortorelli | Interactions between plant community trait composition and environmental stress influence community resistance to a recent annual grass invader, Ventenata dubia
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10:30 Rebecca Weber | Can the rate of vegetation recovery predict reburn severity?
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10:50 Katie Wampler | Predicting source water quality following wildfires using hydrologic modeling
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11:10 Sam Freedman | Modeling the financial viability & carbon sequestration potential of agroforestry and silvopasture in southern Vermont, U.S.
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11:30 Ben Rushakoff | An analysis of Oregon’s preferential forest property tax programs: Results from a survey study
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AM Concurrent Session B
10:10 Mark Kerstens | Moving between green and black: Natal dispersal and survival of juvenile Black-backed Woodpeckers (Picoides arcticus)
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10:30 Jason Piasecki | Red tree voles: Exploring forest occupancy
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10:50 Rachel Zitomer | Forest age and floral resource availability drive native bee abundance and diversity in intensively managed forests of the Oregon Coast Range
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11:10 Dustin Gannon | Pairing automated mark-recapture and social network models to explore the effects of forest encroachment on hummingbird movement
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11:30 Jordan Ellison | Investigating the conservation value of slash piles for Pacific martens and fishers
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12:00 – 1:00 Poster Session
Group 1 presenters available to chat in person from 12:00-12:30
Group 2 presenters available to chat in person from 12:30-1:00
PM Concurrent Session A
1:10 Madelene Elfstrom | Drought resistance and resilience in mature Douglas-fir in western Oregon
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1:30 Stephanie Winters | Resistance or resilience in soil carbon pools? Exploring soil carbon dynamics using common forest organic matter removal practices in Long Term Soil Productivity sites from California to New Zealand
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1:50 Lucie Law | Riparian restoration: Planted tree and shrub survival and growth
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2:10 Sudeera Wickramarathna | Assessment of the herbicide effectiveness on reed canary grass
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2:30 Kathy Young | Undergraduate research experiences: Impacts and opportunities
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2:50 Colby Parkinson | Environmental- and individual-level determinants of outdoor recreation participation during the COVID-19 pandemic
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PM Concurrent Session B
1:10 Nathan Ryan | Effects of overexpressing the GRF4-GIF1 transcription factor chimera on transformation efficiency in Populus and Eucalyptus
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1:30 Xavier Vinton Tacker | CRISPR-modification of floral genes in Eucalyptus: Impacts on flower structure and pollen development
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1:50 Carver Heine | Impact of classification algorithms on modeling forest ground from point clouds
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2:10 Todd West | Heuristic optimization of thinning individual Douglas-fir: Behind the scenes
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2:30 Mandira Pokharel | Timber faller safety on integrated mechanized operations in steep terrain
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2:50 Jun Zhai | Incidence of domestic subsidies vs. export taxes: An equilibrium displacement model of log and lumber markets in Oregon
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If you have any trouble navigating this website, please contact the conference organizing committee at WFGRS@oregonstate.edu