Workgroup Directory/Information
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Workgroup Directory
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 |
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, Susan | 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 | Center for Forestry (UCB) | |
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 |