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Program Team/Workgroup Directory/Information
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Workgroup Information Woody Biomass Utilization |
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| Summary | Focus on the urgent need to find viable methods to utilize the excess woody biomass that creates a high fuel hazard in the forests and urban/wildland regions of California. |
| Website: | http://groups.ucanr.org/WoodyBiomass/ |
| Workgroup Chair Information | |
| Name | John Shelly, (Chair) |
| Phone | (510) 665-3491 |
| jshelly@berkeley.edu | |
| Unit: | Center for Forestry (UCB) |
| Location: |
163 Mulford Hall #3114 Berkeley, 94720-3114 |
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Membership List |
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| AES Scientist | ||
| Hartsough, Bruce | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Professor and Associate Dean (College of Engineering) | Harvesting short rotation plantations; handling small trees on steep terrain; mechanics and dynamics of forestry equipment, modeling and systems analysis of forest operations; forest biomass for energy. | |
| Jenkins, Bryan | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Professor | Energy systems; biomass, bioenergy, biofuels, thermochemical conversion, combustion and gasification; environmental impacts; power systems; properties of fuels; systems analysis, modeling, and optimization. | |
| CE Advisor | ||
| De Lasaux, Michael | Plumas Sierra | |
| Natural Resources Advisor | Forestry, Community Fuel Reduction and Watershed Management | |
| Kocher, Susie | Central Sierra Cooperative Extension | |
| Forestry/ Natural Resources Advisor | Forestry, wildfire, prescribed fire, post-fire recovery, adult education, facilitation, public participation | |
| McArthur, Karl | San Bernardino County | |
| Desert Natural Resource Advisor | Policy Issues/Desert Regions of Tri-County area, San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial | |
| Nader, Glenn | Sutter-Yuba Counties | |
| Farm Advisor Livestock and Natural Resources, Emeritus | Livestock, forage crops, range and natural resources | |
| Quarles, Stephen | Contra Costa County Cooperative Extension | |
| CE Advisor Emeritus | Performance of materials in wood-frame buildings; wildfire; moisture; physical properties of wood | |
| Valachovic, Yana | Humboldt County Office | |
| Forest Advisor and Humboldt - Del Norte County Director | Forest management and ecology, oak woodlands, wildfire preparation, home hardening | |
| Other ANR | ||
| Fall, Carol | Trinity County Cooperative Extension | |
| Trinity County Master Gardener Instructor | ||
| Frost, William | Central Sierra Cooperative Extension | |
| CE Advisor, Emeritus | ||
| Giusti, Gregory | Lake County | |
| Forests & Wildland Ecology Advisor- Emeritus | Forest management, wildlife management, vertebrate pest management, wetlands, watersheds, fisheries and freshwater ecology | |
| Shelly,, John | Center for Forestry (UCB) | |
| CE Advisor - Forest Products and Biomass Utilization, Emeritus | Forest Products, Wood manufacturing methods, biomass utilization,physical properties of wood | |
| Standiford, Richard | ESPM - Ecosystem Sciences | |
| Cooperative Extension Forest Management Specialist, Emeritus | Resource economics; forest management; hardwood rangelands; silviculture | |
| Stewart, William | Center for Forestry (UCB) | |
| Specialist | forest management, climate impacts of forest management and forest product substitution benefits, vegetation management and fire/smoke impacts. | |
| Non-UC | ||
| Allen, Bob | Burney Forest Products | |
| Forester | Fuels management and harvesting systems | |
| Barbour, Jamie | USFS PNW Research Station | |
| Research Scientist | Biomass harvesting and utilization | |
| Berton, Fernando | California Integrated Waste Management Board | |
| Waste Utilization | ||
| Blonski, Ken | EBRPD | |
| Fire Chief | Wildland Fire | |
| Goines, Bruce | USDA Forest Service | |
| Rural Devel. Prog. Mgr. | Community development in forested regions | |
| Mason, Tad | ||
| Wickizer, Doug | CA Dept. of Forestry & Fire Protection | |
| Forester | Biomass utilization | |
| Williams, Robert | ||
| Development Engineer | ||
| Other UC | ||
| Mayhead, Gareth | Center for Forestry (UCB) | |
| Academic Coordinator - Forest Products | Woody biomass technology and markets, forest products, business development, forest certification, community forestry | |
| Membership Totals | ||
| Number of Members | 23 | |
| ANR Members | 15 | |
| Non-ANR | 8 | |
| Info Only | 0 | |