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Southern Research Station Employee Honored By President
(Asheville, NC) Dr. Emile Gardiner, Research Forester with the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, has been named as one of 60 recipients of the fourth annual Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Dr. Gardiner was recognized for sustained productivity and exceptional promise for significant future achievement from research on oak ecophysiology and the regeneration biology of bottomland hardwood forest ecosystems.
Dr. Gardiner earned his PhD in Forestry/Ecophysiology emphasis at Mississippi State University in 1994 and now conducts research at the Forest Service's Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research in Stoneville, MS. He has B.S. in Forestry, and an M.S. in Wildlife Management from Louisiana State University.
Southern Research Station Director, Pete Roussopoulos, said, "Dr. Gardiner has breathed new life into the regeneration research program in MS by establishing new studies, evaluating and revitalizing old ones, and by securing funding and collaborators to maintain them." In addition to offering solutions to problems found in natural stands, he has shown how over 500,000 acres of economically marginal farmland in the Lower Mississippi Valley may be restored by the year 2005.
The PECASE awards, established by President Clinton in 1996, are the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on young professionals at the outset of their independent research careers. The awards were presented at a ceremony at the White House on April 12, 2000. The young scientists and engineers receive up to a five-year research grant to further their study in support of critical government missions. The mission of the Forest Service Southern Research Station is to create the science and technology needed to sustain and enhance southern forest ecosystems and the benefits they provide.
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