2008 Southern Mensurationists Conference
October 26-29, 2008

Holiday Inn, St. Augustine Beach
(www.holidayinn.com/staugustine)

Schedule

Sunday, 2008-10-26

06:00-8:00 PM      Registration and ice breaker in Hospitality Suite

Monday, 2008-10-27

07:00-8:00 AM      Light breakfast provided

08:00 AM

• Welcome and housekeeping

08:15 AM

• KEYNOTE: Comparison of Reineke's and Nilson's Models of Natural Thinning
• Dr. Boris Zeide: 

Our keynote speaker for the conference will be Boris Zeide, professor of forestry at the University of Arkansas (Monticello, AR). Dr. Zeide, who is an internationally recognized expert in the area of quantitative forest ecology, will give a talk on "Comparison of Reineke's and Nilson's Models of Natural Thinning".

09:00 AM

• R-Square for Self-Referencing Equations

09:30 AM

• Annual Growth Model for East Texas Loblolly Pine Plantations

10:00-10:30 AM      Break

10:30 AM

• Uncertainties in Projected Forested Landscapes And Their Uncertainty Sources

11:00 AM

•  Simulated Annealing for Optimizing Continuous Functions

11:30 AM

• Thoughts on non-replicated experiments

12:00 – 1:00 PM      Lunch provided

01:00 PM

• An Overview of the Southern Forest Inventory & Analysis Program

01:30 PM

• Using k-th Nearest Neighbor Algorithm to Fill in the Gaps of Defective LTM 7 Imagery

02:00 PM

• Modeling crown structure from airborne scanning LiDAR data

03:00 PM

• Row Sampling

03:30 PM

• Refinement of Silvicultural Treatment Response Models for Loblolly and Slash Pine Plantations

04:00 PM

• Ten-Year Results of a Loblolly Pine Culture and Density Study in the Piedmont and Upper Coastal Plain of Georgia and Alabama

07:30 PM      Banquet

Tuesday, 2008-10-28

07:00-8:00 AM      Light breakfast provided

08:00 AM

• A simple and effective mortality model
• Dr. Oscar Garcia: 

We are honored to have Oscar Garcia, FBRC/West Fraser Endowed Chair in Forest Growth and Yield, in the Forestry Program at the University of Northern British Columbia as a special guest for the conference. Dr. Garcia will give a talk entitled "A simple and effective mortality model".

08:30 AM

• Effects of thinning on mortality of coastal Douglas fir on Vancouver Island

09:00 AM

• Change of Forest Composition in the Eastern United States in the Last Two Decades

09:30 AM

• Advanced Self-Referencing Models for Explaining Specific Gravity Variation Within Loblolly Pine (Pinus Taeda L.) Stems

10:00-10:30 AM      Break

10:30 AM

• Effects of tree breeding on rotation-age yield in loblolly pine

11:00 AM

• Log size distributions estimated from truck load weights and measurements

11:30 AM

• Modeling Diameter Distributions of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide-co-methacrylic Acid) Nanoparticles

12:00 – 1:00 PM      Lunch provided

01:00 PM

• Taper and Volume Models for Atlantic White Cedar in Coastal North Carolina

01:30 PM

• Thoughts on Timber Inventory Estimates

02:00 PM

• Thoughts on Publishing in Forestry and Natural Resource Sciences

02:30-3:00 PM      Break

03:30-4:30 PM      Business Meeting

Dinner on your own

Wednesday, 2008-10-29

Field Tour TBA