Rogues Gallery of ENTS Members  (Page 3)

Dr. Tony Damato - PhD Forestry from the University of Massachusetts 2007.  Coauthor of the last two Friends of Mohawk Trail State Forest Research reports. Author of [publications on Old-growth in Massachusetts.  

http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu
/personnel/damato.html 

Ernie Ostuno - NOAA/NWS, Weather Forecast Office. Grand Rapids, Michigan  I have a B.A. in meteorology from Western Connecticut State University, 1993. My work experience includes being an Intern/General Forecaster with the National Weather Service Forecast Office in State College, Pennsylvania, from 1994-1999. Since 1999, I have been a Senior Forecaster with the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Grand Rapids, Michigan . My research projects and professional interests include (a) communication issues, including assessing the effectiveness of wording used in NWS public products, particularly severe weather warnings; (b) creating public weather safety programs, specifically targeted to outdoor enthusiasts such as campers, hikers, and swimmers; and (c) investigating local historical weather events, especially details of how the events changed public awareness, and finding a strategy for overcoming the tendency for complacency towards very rare, extreme events.

Don Bertolettes Early Days in Forestry  June 2008

   Southern Research Station

   P.O. Box 3516 UAM

   Monticello, AR 71656

I have engaged in multiple research projects related to the upland forests of the Midsouth region.  This has included studies on ice damage to pine plantations in the South, investigation of the Cross Timbers woodland in western Arkansas, and completion of long-term growth and yield projects.  Much of my work has also concentrated on the refinement of silvicultural techniques for the development of old-growth-like attributes in managed stands of the northern Lake States and the Midsouth (primarily Arkansas). 

http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/staff/767 

http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/4106/
about/Scientists/dbragg/dbragg.htm 

Andrew Joslin

I'm new to climbing conifers, I've climbed a handful of tallish white pines and other conifers in eastern Mass. I'm the map maker and illustrator for the book on tall tree researchers, 'The Wild Trees'.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturejournal/
sets/72157594194027361/ 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturejournal/
sets/72157594194027361/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturejournal/ 

http://www.flickr.com:80/photos/naturejournal/
sets/72157594391735531/ 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/naturejournal/sets/ 

http://www.richardpreston.net/books/wt_illustration.html 

Tim Sullivan

http://www.inthemomentnaturephotography.com/ 

I am a naturalist, photographer, and wildlife researcher who has spent the last several years in the Sierras working on a couple of studies looking into the effects of recreation and development on biodiversity. Before that I worked and volunteered in Vermont for a couple of organizations, including the Green Mountain Club and Keeping Track. My primary interests have been finding ways to help the public make deeper connections with the natural environment while at the same time working to reduce the impacts of all of us who grow to love and spend time in the forests. I look forward to catching up on your discussions and perhaps bumping into some of you in the northeast woods.

John Davis

Bob Leverett writes: "Our 150th member is my great friend John Davis, Conservation Director of the Adirondack Council. http://www.adirondackcouncil.org/ In the conservation community, John is a living legend. His unassuming nature makes him an exceptionally delightful person to be around and he has an excellent sense of humor. John is the one who spawned the name for me back in the 1990s of the
"East's leading old-growth evangelist". John spawns these monikers with a twinkle in his eye and the one he spawned for me has gotten more than its quota of chuckles. Ah, Bob, you can be a bit preachy at times, can't you? But, back to John. He has more great wilderness experiences than Carter has little liver pills (Dated myself on that one). So, I hope we'll be hearing frequently from John. We are truly excited to have you
aboard, John. I can think of nothing that would be more exciting than to have other members of the old "Wild Earth" team join ENTS. That would be way, way cool."

Dr. Dave Orwig - Forest Ecologist. Harvard University, Harvard Forest,  My research interests encompass all aspects of forest ecology, with particular emphasis on old-growth forest dynamics, dendroecology, and the role of land use history and disturbance on forest structure and composition. These approaches have recently been used to examine forest damage, environmental changes, and related ecosystem processes associated with hemlock woolly adelgid outbreaks in New England hemlock forests.

http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/
profiles/orwig.html

Larry Tucei 

Representing Mississippi.  Larry writes:  I work for the Ms. Army National Guard as a contractor. I'm a aerospace welder, certified in GTAW, SMAW and GMAW. Fabrication and welding of all metals. We are a Depot level Maint. facility, supporting Army Aviation for the Southeastern U.S., Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

I'm not a forester or an arborist, or anything other than an interested listener/learner.  I've only posted one item about preservation of trees with a particular interest in a grand "White Oak" specimen on a property that I am managing for an Estate.  I've already connected with a gentleman who helped me to identify the species, and measure it as well as determine it's relative health and condition.  Beyond that, trying to learn about tree and forests in general is the focus of my choice to enter this interest group.     

Randy Brown

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