Jeffrey Gove
Title: Research Forester
Unit: Climate, Fire, and Carbon Cycle Sciences
Previous Unit: Forest Carbon Dynamics and Estimation for Sustainable Management
Address: Northern Research Station
271 Mast Road
Durham, NH 03824
Phone: 603-868-7667
E-mail: Contact Jeffrey Gove
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Education
- A.A.S. Forest Technology. May 1975, Thompson School of Applied Science, University of New Hampshire.
- B.S. Forestry. December 1977, University of New Hampshire.
- M.S. Forest Mensuration. May 1980. University of New Hampshire.
- M.A. Statistics. December 1992, The Pennsylvania State University.
- Ph.D. Forest Biometrics. August 1989, The Pennsylvania State University.
Civic & Professional Affiliations
Member: Society of American Foresters, American Statistical Association.
Current Research
- Weighted distributions for forest management and research. Weighted distributions provide a theory that brings together many of the stand attributes used in forest management. This theory, while powerful, is straightforward to apply in the context of forest management using statistical software, or packages such as Balance. These methods make it simpler to get compatible estimates from probability-based stand models.
- Optimal methods for developing uneven-aged stand management guidelines. Based on models of forest growth, these methods can be used to maximize numerous different objective functions for management; examples include financial objectives, and total biomass. When both the underlying growth and financial models are closely applicable to a given location, the resulting management guides will be optimal with respect to the objective chosen, and provide the basis for better management.
- New methods for sampling down coarse woody debris in forest ecosystems. We continue to develop new methods for the estimation of down coarse woody material; of special interest are the new methods based on probability proportional to size sampling, such as perpendicular distance sampling and its variants, and point relascope sampling. Both field and simulation testing are components of this effort.
- Data assimilation methods in forestry. Data assimilation brings models and sampling together in an optimal (for linear systems) or suboptimal (for nonlinear systems) manner through the use of sequential estimation methods. These probabilistically-based methods are very powerful, and show great potential for use in both forest research and management.
Future Research
- Problems in uneven-age forest management, especially optimal stand diameter distribution models.
- Investigating new methods, and testing and exploring new adaptations of existing methods for sampling forest ecosystems, especially components of down woody material.
- Data assimilation methods for use in forest management and research.
Featured Publications
- Fast, Andrew J.; Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Leak, William B. 2008. Dating tree mortality using log decay in the White Mountains of New Hampshire
- Leak, William B.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2008. Growth of northern hardwoods in New England: a 25-year update
- Gove, Jeffrey H.; Ducey, Mark J.; Leak, William B.; Zhang, Lianjun. 2008. Rotated sigmoid structures in managed uneven-aged northern hardwood stands: a look at the Burr Type III distribution
- Ducey, Mark J.; Williams, Michael S.; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Valentine, Harry T. 2008. Simultaneous unbiased estimates of multiple downed wood attributes in perpendicular distance sampling
- Gove, J.H.; Hollinger, D.Y. 2006. Application of a dual unscented Kalman filter for simultaneous state and parameter estimation in problems of surface-atmosphere exchange
Additional
Online Publications
- Valentine, Harry T.; Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeffery H.; Lanz, Adrian; Affleck, David L.R. 2006. Corrections for Cluster-Plot Slop
- Zhang, Lianjun; Bi, Huiquan; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Heath, Linda S. 2005. A comparison of alternative methods for estimating the self-thinning boundary line
- Proctor, Patrick; Heath, Linda S.; Van Deusen, Paul C.; Gove, Jeffery H.; Smith, James E. 2005. COLE: A Web-based Tool for Interfacing with Forest Inventory Data
- Kenning, Robert S.; Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeff H.; Brissette, John C. 2005. Field Efficiency and Bias of Methods for Snag and Cavity Tree Inventory
- Kenning, Robert S.; Ducey, Mark J.; Brissette, John C.; Gove, Jeffery H. 2005. Field efficiency and bias of snag inventory methods
- Innes, J. C.; Ducey, M. J.; Gove, J. H.; Leak, W. B.; Barrett, J. P. 2005. Size-density metrics, leaf area, and productivity in eastern white pine
- Proctor, Patrick; Van Deusen, Paul C.; Heath, Linda S.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2005. The open-source movement: an introduction for forestry professionals
- Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Valentine, Harry T. 2004. A walkthrough solution to the boundary overlap problem
- Jordan, G. J.; Ducey, M. J.; Gove, J. H. 2004. Comparing line-intersect, fixed-area, and point relascope sampling for dead and downed coarse woody material in a managed northern hardwood forest
- Gove, Jeffrey H. 2004. Structural stocking guides: a new look at an old friend
- Brissette, John C.; Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2003. A field test of point relascope sampling of down coarse woody material in managed stands in the Acadian Forest
- Gove, Jeffrey H. 2003. Estimation and applications of size-based distributions in forestry
- Williams Michael S.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2003. Perpendicular distance sampling: an alternative method for sampling downed coarse woody debris
- Ducey, M. J.; Jordan, G. J.; Gove, J. H.; Valentine, H. T. 2002. A practical modification of horizontal line sampling for snag and cavity tree inventory
- Stahl, Goran; Ringvall, Anna; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Ducey, Mark J. 2002. Correction for slope in point and transect relascope sampling of downed coarse woody debris
- Scott, Charles T.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2002. Forest Inventory
- Gove, Jeffrey H.; Ducey, Mark J.; Valentine, Harry T. 2002. Multistage point relascope and randomized branch sampling for downed coarse woody debris estimation
- Zhang, Lianjun; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Liu, Chuangmin; Leak, William B. 2001. A finite mixture of two Weibull distributions for modeling the diameter distributions of rotated-sigmoid, uneven-aged stands
- Valentine, Harry T.; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Gregoire, Timothy G. 2001. Monte Carlo approaches to sampling forested tracts with lines or points
- Gove, Jeffrey H.; Valentine, Harry T.; Holmes, Michael J. 2000. A field test of cut-off importance sampling for bole volume
- Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2000. Downed wood as seedbed: measurement and management guidelines
- Gove, Jeffrey H.; Linder, Ernst; Tzilkowski, Walter M. 1995. Some results on the combined removal and signs-of-activities estimators for sampling closed animal populations.
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11/19/2008