Fred Martin, Ted KeeleyWashington State

Dept of Natural Resources

Judy Cushing, Lee Zeman, Nik MolnarNatalie Kopytko, Juli Mallett

Anne McIntosh, Nalini NadkarniThe Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA

Additional Contributors: B. Van Pelt, R. Dial, C. LeRoy, J. Franklin, A. Carey, D. Fischer, E. Menendez, C. Pierce, M. Finch, Y. Kim, E. Murphy-Hill, A. Crosland, T. Brooks, J. Thomas. Funded by NSF IIS 05-0570, 06-39588, DBI-0417311, CISE 01-31952, BIR 99-75510, 96-30316, BIO 96-30316, 99-75510.

Lois Delcambre, David Maier

Portland State University

http://alala.evergreen.edu/dnr

http://canopy.evergreen.edu/canopydb judyc@evergreen.edu

Ecology Research

Resource

ManagementModels

What we are doing:

• Revising visualizations & metrics developed for researchers for resource management.

• Surveying experts to characterize crowns from a research database.

• Producing Crown Catalog w/ ratings using revised rules.

• Conducting ecology research to analyze crown gaps.

What we will do next:

• Evaluate new rules and use of crown catalog.

• Scale up in space – integrate field data with remotely sensed LIDAR data.

Future CS Research Directions:

• More end-user programmed visualization, incl. animation.

• Better pattern recognition.

• Interpolation and extrapolation for missing data.

• Better, dynamic models that run forward and backward, and can integrate new data.

Help natural resource managers respond to policy & environmental change

by providing ecology research results

have want

Which Trees to Leave?100 Crowns Among 1000 Trees

in the 1000-Year Chronosequence

Which Tree is or has:Best Wildlife Tree?Many Crown Gaps?

Legacy Tree?Economic Value?

Our managers want:• Refined rules for Leave Tree selection.

• Help communicating decisions & outcomes to harvesters, the public, ecologists.

• Research results at higher spatial and temporal scales and that are applicable to incomplete data.