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Brian Woodward

Forest Advisor for Santa Cruz, San Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties
UC Cooperative Extension Santa Cruz County
500 Westridge Drive
Watsonville, CA 95076
831-348-7305
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San Mateo-San Francisco Counties

Biography

I am the Cooperative Extension Forest Advisor for Santa Cruz, San Mateo, and Santa Clara Counties. I run a program of applied research and extension related to forests of the Santa Cruz Mountains guided by the needs of my community. I serve all forest managers, forest owners, and residents of my region seeking information related to forest management, forest health, forest ecology, and related topics.

I completed a PhD in Ecology from Colorado State University, where I studied the effects of mixed severity fire and other disturbances on coast redwood forest communities across California. I hold an MS in Forest Sciences where I studied spatial patterns and environmental factors contributing to bark beetle outbreaks. Previously, I have worked across western forest systems in roles related to ecology, forestry, conservation, and remote sensing.

Please reach out to me anytime with questions!

Education

Ph.D. Ecology, Colorado State University. 2021
M.S. Forest Sciences, Colorado State University. 2017

Discipline

Forest Management

Specialty

forest ecology, fire ecology, prescribed fire, forest monitoring, coast redwood, forest regeneration, forest management, disturbance ecology, remote sensing

Bibliography

Peer Reviewed

  • Vorster, A. G., Stevens-Rumann, C., Young, N., Woodward, B.D., Choi, C. T. H., Chambers, M. E., ... & West, A. (2023). Metrics and Considerations for Evaluating How Forest Treatments Alter Wildfire Behavior and Effects. Journal of Forestry.

  • Evans, A.W., Woodward, B.D., Wyckoff, A.C., Toledo, D., Duke, S., Fischer, C., Núñez, C. and Sierra?Corona, R., 2023. Livestock grazing is an effective conservation tool for Californian coastal grassland ecology: An eight year study on vegetation dynamics. Applied Vegetation Science

  • Werner, Z., Choi, C.T.H., Winter, A., Vorster, A.G., Berger, A., O'Shea, K., Evangelista, P. and Woodward, B., 2022. MODIS sensors can monitor spatiotemporal trends in fog and low cloud cover at 1 km spatial resolution along the US Pacific Coast. Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment

  • Blomdahl, E., Speer, J., Kaye, M., Zampieri, N.E., Rochner, M., Currey, B., Alving, D., Cahalan, G.D., Hagedorn, B., Li, H., Oelkers, R., Pelletier, L., Thapa, I., Willson, K., Woodward, B.D, R. DeRose, R.J. 2022. Drivers of forest change in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Journal of Vegetation Science

  • Woodward, B. D., Romme, W. H., & Evangelista, P. H. (2020). Early postfire response of a northern range margin coast redwood forest community. Forest Ecology and Management

  • Vorster, A.G., Woodward, B.D., West, A.M., Young, N.E., Sturtevant, R.G., Mayer, T.J., Girma, R.K. and Evangelista, P.H., 2018. Tamarisk and Russian olive occurrence and absence dataset collected in select tributaries of the Colorado River for 2017. Data.

  • Woodward, B.D., Evangelista, P.H., Young, N.E., Vorster, A.G., West, A.M., Carroll, S.L., Girma, R.K., Hatcher, E.Z., Anderson, R., Vahsen, M.L. and Vashisht, A., 2018. Co-Rip: A riparian vegetation and corridor extent dataset for Colorado river basin streams and rivers. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

  • Woodward, B.D., Evangelista, P.H. and Vorster, A.G., 2018. Mapping progression and severity of a Southern Colorado spruce beetle outbreak using calibrated image composites. Forests

  • Woodward, B.D., Engelstad, P., Vorster, A., Beddow, C., Krail, S., Vashisht, A. and Evangelista, P., 2017. Forest harvest dataset for northern Colorado Rocky Mountains (1984–2015) generated from a Landsat time series and existing forest harvest records. Data in Brief

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