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We believe in the inherent worth of forests as places for relaxation, rejuvenation, and recreation. That's part of the reason why it's so hard to stomach the lies and myths that come forth from the industrial destroyers of forests. I worked to develop a series of "mythbusting" reports that answered some of the most common […]

This was a collaboration with Rob Messick, who, while not an academic officially, is a well respected naturalist and expert on the Blue Ridge mountains in and around North Carolina. Rob was gracious enough to share years and years of data, maps, and even old growth tree core records. We transformed it all into a […]

This is my full dissertation, available to anyone who wants it. Of note, there's really only two chapters that are unpublished: the introduction, which was my research proposal heavily modified; and one article that we just couldn't get published on greenhouse experiments. Everything else is in its more final form in the journals where we […]

This one was fun to write, but it's landed in a weird place on the web. It's owned by Elsevier, who owns the Encyclopedia of the World's Biomes, where it was published. We contributed this chapter discussing the history and implications of bioenergy usage in the United States. Abstract As the world seeks solutions to […]

This was a simple article we did just categorizing our observations of Pieris rapae, the cabbage white butterfly, using a native host, Alliaria petiolata, while both in invaded territory (the US). This open-access article details our observations of oviposition and larval survival in Ohio ecosystems. Abstract Pieris rapae L., an invasive crop pest, may have […]

This was the final paper from my dissertation that I directly authored, and it was one of my favorites, because I started learning mapping with this paper! I used climate models (worldclim data) to develop suitability maps for the rare West Virginia White butterfly. I then combined that data with genetic diversity data that I […]

While not credited as an author on this project, just like the Great American Stand, I contributed heavily to the research and information gathering phases of this project. With John Talberth's assistance, I scoured the USFS / FIA database to get all of the relevant metrics for NC forests. We looked at forest age, carbon, […]

Although I'm not credited as an author on this report, I contributed heavily to the background research that went into this project. I also developed the plain language briefs that accompanied the later releases of the Great American Stand. It was also my first big project with Bill Moomaw, who is an excellent scientist and […]