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Christopher W. Woodall

Title: Research Forester
Unit: Forest Inventory & Analysis
Previous Unit: Forest Inventory & Analysis
Address: Northern Research Station
1992 Folwell Ave
St. Paul, MN 55108
Phone: 651-649-5141
E-mail: Contact Christopher W. Woodall

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Education

University of Montana, Ph.D. Forestry, 2000
University of Montana, M.S. Forestry, 1997
Clemson University, B.S. Forestry, 1995

Civic & Professional Affiliations

Ecological Society of America, Society of American Foresters

Current Research

My current work can be broadly summarized into various national and regional Forest Inventory and Analysis program responsibilities involving research and administrative activities:

FIA National Indicator Advisor for the Down Woody Materials Inventory,
Inventory and Analysis Techniques Researcher,
Biophysical Team Leader for Northern FIA, and
Lead Forest Inventory Analyst for Indiana.

Thus, my current research entails large-scale forest health monitoring, fuels and fire danger assessment, and development of novel forest inventory analytical tools.

Why is This Important

My research, leadership, and analyses fill critical information needs regarding forest ecosystems to the general public, resource managers, scientists, policy makers, economists, and a wide range of other natural resource specialists. Success in this mission is crucial to assessing the sustainability of not only forest ecosystems in the northern United States, but also the health of our Nation's forests. Research outputs provide Forest Service customers and clients with crucial information and provide improved techniques for data application to a range of resource inventory and monitoring needs (e.g., national carbon stock assessment, strategic-scale fuel loadings, and national forest stand relative density).

Future Research

My desires for future research include developing better techniques for holistically integrating forest health inventory data into traditional forest inventory analyses, refining the national measurement protocols for the Down Woody Materials Inventory, developing a more dynamic and "user-friendly" data dissemination tool for the FIA fuels inventory, refining Down Woody Material estimation procedures to allow for carbon stock population estimates, and describing linkages between well known stand development processes and the accumulation of dead and down woody materials in forests.

Featured Publications

Woodall, Christopher; Johnson, Dan; Gallion, Joey; Perry, Charles; Butler, Brett; Piva, Ron; Jepsen, Ed; Nowak, Dave; Marshall, Phil. 2005. Indiana's forests 1999-2003 (Part A). Resour. Bull. NC-253A. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station. 94 p.
Woodall, Christopher; Williams, Michael. 2005. Sampling protocol, estimation, and analysis procedures for the down woody materials indicator of the FIA program. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-256. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station. 47 p.
Woodall, C.W.; Grambsch, P.L.; Thomas, W. 2005. Applying survival analysis to a large-scale forest inventory for assessment of tree mortality in Minnesota. Ecological Modelling 189 (2005) 199?208
Woodall, Chris W.; Miles, Patrick D.; Vissage, John S. 2005. Determining maximum stand density index in mixed species stands for strategic-scale stocking assessments. Forest Ecology and Management 216 (2005) 367-377
Woodall, Christopher W.; Charney, Joseph J.; Liknes, Greg C.; Potter, Brian E. 2005. What's the fire danger now? Linking fuel inventories with atmospheric data. Journal of Forestry 103: 293-298.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Perry, Charles H.; Miles, Patrick D. 2006. The relative density of forests in the United States. Forest Ecology and Management 226 (2006) 368?372

Additional Online Publications

Woodall, C.W.; Oswalt, C.M.; Westfall, J.A.; Perry, C.H.; Nelson, M.D.; Finley, A.O. 2009. An indicator of tree migration in forests of the eastern United States
Woodall, Christopher W.; Liknes, Greg C. 2008. Climatic regions as an indicator of forest coarse and fine woody debris carbon stocks in the United States
Oswalt, Sonja N.; Brandels, Thomas J.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2008. Contribution of dead wood to biomass and carbon stocks in the Caribbean: St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Woodall, C.W.; Westfall, J.A. 2008. Controlling coarse woody debris inventory quality: taper and relative size methods
Woodall, C.W.; Westfall, J.A.; Lutes, D.C.; Oswalt, S.N. 2008. End-point diameter and total length coarse woody debris models for the United States
Perry, C.H.; Woodall, C.W.; Liknes, G.C.; Schoeneberger, M.M. 2008. Filling the gap: improving estimates of working tree resources in agricultural landscapes
Woodall, C.W.; Gallion, J. 2008. Indiana's Forest Resources, 2007
Moser, W. Keith; Hansen, Mark H.; Atchison, Robert L.; Brand, Gary J.; Butler, Brett J.; Crocker, Susan J.; Meneguzzo, Dacia M.; Nelson, Mark D.; Perry, Charles H.; Reading, William H. IV; Wilson, Barry T.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2008. Kansas forests 2005
Woodall, C.W.; Heath, L.S.; Smith, J.E. 2008. National inventories of down and dead woody material forest carbon stocks in the United States: Challenges and opportunities
Meneguzzo, Dacia M.; Butler, Brett J.; Crocker, Susan J.; Haugen, David E.; Moser, W. Keith; Perry, Charles H.; Wilson, Barry T.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2008. Nebraska's forests, 2005
Woodall, C.W.; Miles, P.D. 2008. Reaching a forest land per capita milestone in the United States
Woodall, C.W.; Liknes, G.C. 2008. Relationships between forest fine and coarse woody debris carbon stocks across latitudinal gradients in the United States as an indicator of climate change effects
Woodall, Christopher W.; Monleon, Vicente J. 2008. Sampling protocol, estimation, and analysis procedures for the down woody materials indicator of the FIA program
Woodall, Chris W.; Morin, Randall S.; Steinman, Jim R.; Perry, Charles H. 2008. Status of oak seedlings and saplings in the northern United States: implications for sustainability of oak forests
Woodall, C.W. 2008. When is one core per tree sufficient to characterize stand attributes? Results of a Pinus ponderosa case study
Perry, Charles H. (Hobie); Everson, Vern A.; Brown, Ian K.; Cummings-Carlson, Jane; Dahir, Sally E.; Jepsen, Edward A.; Kovach, Joe; Labissoniere, Michael D.; Mace, Terry R.; Padley, Eunice A.; Rideout, Richard B.; Butler, Brett J.; Crocker, Susan J.; Liknes, Greg C.; Morin, Randall S.; Nelson, Mark D.; Wilson, Barry T. (Ty); Woodall, Christopher W. 2008. Wisconsin's forests, 2004
Harmon, Mark E.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Fasth, Becky; Sexton, Jay. 2008. Woody detritus density and density reduction factors for tree species in the United States: a synthesis
Moser, W. Keith; Hansen, Mark H.; Nelson, Mark D.; Crocker, Susan J.; Perry, Charles H.; Schulz, Bethany; Woodall, Christopher W. 2007. After the blowdown: a resource assessment of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, 1999-2003
Woodall, C.W.; Nagel, L.M. 2007. Downed woody fuel loading dynamics of a large-scale blowdown in northern Minnesota, U.S.A.
Woodall, Christoper W.; Perez, Judith A.; Thake, Thomas R. 2007. Forest resources of the Hoosier National Forest, 2005
Woodall, C.W.; Gallion, J. 2007. Indiana's forest resources, 2006
Westfall, J.A.; Woodall, C.W. 2007. Measurement repeatability of a large-scale inventory of forest fuels
Miles, Patrick D.; Jacobson, Keith; Brand , Gary J.; Jepsen, Ed; Meneguzzo, Dacia; Mielke, Manfred E.; Olson, Cassandra; Perry, Charles H. (Hobie); Piva, Ronald J.; Wilson, Barry Tyler; Woodall, Christopher. 2007. Minnesota's forests 1999-2003 (Part A)
Moser, W. Keith; Hansen, Mark H.; Treiman, Thomas B.; Leatherberry, Earl C.; Jepsen, Ed; Olson, Cassandra L.; Perry, Charles H.; Piva, Ronald J.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Brand, Gary J. 2007. Missouri's forests 1999-2003 (Part A)
McWilliams, William H.; Cassell, Seth P.; Alerich, Carol L.; Butler, Brett J.; Hoppus, Michael L.; Horsley, Stephen B.; Lister, Andrew J.; Lister, Tonya W.; Morin, Randall S.; Perry, Charles H.; Westfall, James A.; Wharton, Eric H.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2007. Pennsylvania's Forest 2004
Morin, Randall S.; Liebhold, Andrew M; Gottschalk, K.W.; Woodall, Chris W.; Twardus, Daniel B.; White, Robert L.; Horsley, Stephen B.; Ristau, Todd E. 2006. Analysis of forest health monitoring surveys on the Allegheny National Forest (1998-2001)
Woodall, C. W.; Nagel, L. M. 2006. Coarse woody type: A new method for analyzing coarse woody debris and forest change
Woodall, Christopher; Brand, Gary; Gallion, Joey. 2006. Indiana's forest resources in 2004
Woodall, Christopher; Brand, Gary; Gallion, Joey. 2006. Indiana's forest resources in 2005
Woodall, Christopher; Hansen, Mark; Brand, Gary; McRoberts, Ronald; Gallion, Joey; Jepsen, Ed. 2006. Indiana's forests 1999-2003 (Part B)
Leatherberry, Earl C.; Moser, W. Keith; Perry, Charles; Woodall, Christopher; Jespen, Edward; Pennington, Steve; Flickinger, Aron. 2006. Iowa's forests 1999-2003 (Part A)
Woodall, Christopher W.; Charney, Joseph; Liknes, Greg; Potter, Brian. 2006. Linking Fuel Inventories With Atmospheric Data for Assessment of Fire Danger
Woodall, Christopher W.; Miles, Patrick D. 2006. New Method for Determining the Relative Stand Density of Forest Inventory Plots
Woodall, Christopher W.; Grambsch, Patricia L.; Thomas, William. 2005. D.B.H. and Survival Analysis: A New Methodology for Assessing Forest Inventory Mortality
Woodall, Christopher W.; Leutscher, Bruce. 2005. Extending and Intensifying the FIA Inventory of Down Forest Fuels: Boundary Waters Canoe Area and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore
Perry, C. H.; Woodall, C. W.; Schoeneberger, M.M. 2005. Inventorying trees in agricultural landscapes: towards an accounting of working trees
O'Neill, Katherine P.; Woodall, Christopher; Amacher, Michael; Holden, Geoffrey. 2005. Linking Soils and Down Woody Material Inventories for Cohesive Assessments of Ecosystem Carbon Pools
Woodall, Christopher W.; Lutes, Duncan C. 2005. Sensitivity Analysis of Down Woody Material Data Processing Routines
Woodall, Christopher W.; Fiedler, Carl E. 2005. Simulating Silvicultural Treatments Using FIA Data
Woodall, Christopher W.; Nagel, Linda. 2005. Species Composition of Down Dead and Standing Live Trees: Implications for Forest Inventory Analysis
Woodall, C.W.; Grambsch, P.L.; Thomas, W.; Moser, W.K. 2005. Survival analysis for a large scale forest health issue: Missouri oak decline
McWilliams, William H.; Butler, Brett J.; Caldwell, Laurence E.; Griffith, Douglas M.; Hoppus, Michael L.; Laustsen, Kenneth M.; Lister, Andrew J.; Lister, Tonya W.; Metzler, Jacob W.; Morin, Randall S.; Sader, Steven A.; Stewart, Lucretia B.; Steinman, James R.; Westfall, James, A.; Williams, David A.; Whitman, Andrew; Woodall, Christopher W. 2005. The forests of Maine: 2003
Woodall, C.W.; Graham, J.M. 2004. A technique for conducting point pattern analysis of cluster plot stem-maps
Woodall, C.W.; Holden, G.R.; Vissage, J.S. 2004. Fuel mapping for the future
Woodall, Christopher; Brand, Gary; Vissage, John; Gallion, Joey. 2004. Indiana's forest resources in 2003.
Woodall, Christopher W. 2003. Coming soon: a national assessment of fuel loadings.
Fiedler, Carl E.; Keegan, Charles E.; Morgan, Todd A.; Woodall, Christopher W. 2003. Fire hazard and potential treatment effectiveness: a statewide assessment in Montana
Woodall, C.W.; Fiedler, C.E.; Milner, K.S. 2003. Intertree competition in uneven-aged ponderosa pine stands
Woodall, C.W.; Fiedler, C.E.; Milner, K.S. 2003. Stand density index in uneven-aged ponderosa pine stands
Woodall, Christopher W. 2003. The National Inventory of Down Woody Materials: Methods, Outputs, and Future Directions
McRoberts, Ronald E.; Woodall, Christopher W.; Lessard, Veronica C.; Holdaway, Margaret R. 2002. Diameter Growth Models for Inventory Applications
Woodall, Chris. 2002. Point pattern analysis of FIA data

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