Warren Keith Moser

Title: Research Forester
Unit: Forest Inventory & Analysis
Previous Unit: Forest Inventory & Analysis
Address: Northern Research Station
1992 Folwell Ave
St. Paul, MN 55108
Phone: 651-649-5155
E-mail: Contact Warren Keith Moser

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Education

• D.F. (Doctor of Forestry), Forest stand dynamics and ecophysiology, 1994, Yale University
• M.F. (Master of Forestry), Forest productivity, 1986, Duke University
• M.B.A., Operations management, 1982, Duke University
• B.A., Business management, 1980, North Carolina State University

Civic & Professional Affiliations

• Adjunct Research Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Missouri
• Adjunct Professor of Forestry, University of Minnesota
• Editor, Journal of Forestry

Current Research

I am a Research Forester in the Northern Research Station's Forest Inventory and Analysis Research Work Unit (NFIA) located in St. Paul, Minnesota. The mission of the unit is to analyze and disseminate information developed from the extensive system of inventory plots in the forested ecosystems in the Northeastern, Midwestern, and Northern Great Plains States. I prepare standard reports on certain States and conduct hypothesis-driven research using information derived from the FIA dataset. Currently, I am investigating relationships between species and structural diversity vs. productivity, patterns of forest response to abiotic and biotic (including non-native invasives) disturbances, and different metrics of long-term sustainability.

Why is This Important

Coming from a forest management background, I know these data, properly analyzed, can help resource managers put their management into a landscape and regional context. The Northern Research Station's system of FIA plots provides a unique large-scale perspective that can reveal spatial trends and cross-boundary similarities that may not be obvious to a manager concerned with one stand or forest. My goal is to document trends in landscape change and, in so doing, examine patterns of disturbance and sustainability across spatial scales, thus providing value to local foresters seeking explanations for observations of disturbance, health, growth, and structure on their properties.

Future Research

I am very interested in disturbance and ecosystem stability and how management actions can impact stability at the stand, landscape, and regional level. As part of this theme, I am interested in issues related to climate impacts, forest health, and invasives, both native and nonnative. I am working on examining the spatial and temporal impacts of wind events upon forest structure and composition. I am working on landscape change from both a medium-term perspective (Missouri since the original General Land Office survey) and a short-term one (afforestation of pastoral landscapes after de facto abandonment). I am interested in examining the likelihood of biotic disturbances and the forest structures that result, along with devising strategies for avoidance or amelioration.

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