Broadly trained in forestry and forest ecology, I have widely ranging interests. Ultimately, I am interested in identifying and developing indices of ecological processes, particularly those processes affected by a potentially changing climate. Expressing physiological based processes at a landscape scale is fraught with quantitative difficulties. For this reason I am interested in developing relevant indices of ecological behavior that are practical for modeling at a landscape scale. Opportunities for research have taken me to Puerto Rico to study the influence of catastrophic disturbance (hurricane) on foliar decomposition, to North Carolina to study carbon dioxide uptake and release from forest canopy trees and from soils, and to Missouri to study acorn production influences and modeling at a landscape scale. While in Missouri, I was also involved with a study of the productivity of forests in the seven-state North Central region of the U.S. While in all of these places I was a involved with other interesting ecological studies with a particular emphasis on designing, building, implementing, and repairing field equipment ranging from infra-red cameras to monitor nest predation to multi-channel soil and stem respiration samplers.

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