a. Invited papers and posters since 2000

1. March 2000 - Bloomington, IN
   Indiana University Department of Computer Science Horizon Day Lecture
   Linking Computers to Solve Environmental Problems: Optimistic Clairvoyance from an Applied Perspective. (invited).
   
   

2. October 2000 – Oak Ridge, TN
   Friends of ORNL
   From Aesop’s Fable to Beowulf: the (Soon-to-Be) Legend of the Stone SouperComputer. (invited)
   
   

3. October 2000 – Knoxville, TN
   American Meteorological Society, Smoky Mountains Chapter
   The Stone SouperComputer Project at ORNL. (invited)
   
   

4. March 2001 – Winston-Salem, NC
   2001 North Carolina Geographic Information Systems Conference (NCGIS) 2001: A Spatial Odyssey
   Pushing the Envelope: Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering (MSTC) using a Parallel Supercomputer. (invited)
   
   

5. August 2001 – Oak Ridge, TN
   ORNL Physics Division Colloquium
   The Stone SouperComputer: a Beowulf-style Cluster for Tackling Ecological Computational Problems. (invited)
   
   

6. April 2002 – St. Petersburg, FL
   Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting
   A “Make-a-difference” Experiment to Assess the Value of ARM Data in Carbon Cycle Models. (invited)
   
   

7. May 2002 – Nashville, TN
   Nashville Linux Users Group
   The Stone SouperComputer: a Beowulf-style Cluster for Tackling Ecological Computational Problems. (invited)
   
   

8. June 2002 – Breckenridge, CO
   Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Annual Meeting, Climate Change and Assessment Working Group
   Animations and Early Clustering Results using PCM Model Output. (invited)
   
   

9. June 2002 – Knoxville, TN
   C. Warren Neel Conference on the New Frontiers of Statistical Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
   Data Mining with Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering. (invited)
   
   

10. July 2002 – Beltsville, MD
    USDA Agricultural Research Service Germplasm Research Information Network
    Computer-generated Ecoregions as a Basis for Sampling-network Design. (invited)
    
    

11. August 2002 – Peoria, IL
    Insurance Industry Risk and Catastrophe Modeling Workshop
    EMBYR, a Probabilistic Model of Wildfire Propagation Risk. (invited)
    
    

12. August 2002 – Cookeville, TN
    U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Regional GIS workshop, Management track
    Computer-generated Ecoregions as a Basis for Sampling-network Design. (invited)
    
    

13. August 2002 .– Oak Ridge, TN
    FishHeads Friday, ORNL Environmental Sciences Division
    Animations and Early Clustering Results Using PCM Model Output. (invited)
    
    

14. September 2002 – Germantown, MD
    U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Biological and Environmental Research Seminar
    Using Clustering to Establish Climate Regimes from a Global Climate Model. (invited)
    
    

15. September 2002 – Knoxville, TN
    Southern Appalachian Information Node, NBII
    A Map-Analysis Tool for Corridor Detection. (invited)
    
    

16. March 2003 – Broomfield, CO
    Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting
    Characterizing and Filling Temporal Gaps in Hour-Aggregated ARM Measurements for Use in Carbon Models. (invited)
    
    

17. March 2003 – Broomfield, CO
    Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting
    Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering of Time-Series Data: an Approach for Diagnosing Cloud Processes and Understanding ARM Site Representativeness. (invited)
    
    

18. June 2003 – Breckenridge, CO
    Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Annual Meeting
    Using Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering to Establish Climate Regimes from Parallel Climate Model (PCM) Results. (invited)
    
    

19. July 2003 – Knoxville, TN
    East Tennessee Computer Society (ETCS) Meeting
    The Stone SouperComputer: Applying a Heterogeneous Beowulf-Style Cluster to Ecological Multivariate Clustering. (invited)
    
    

20. July 2003 – Maui, HI
    NBII Biodiversity Modeling Meeting
    Statistical Location of Hutchinsonian Environmental Niche Hypervolumes using Fixed-Radius Multivariate Geographic Clustering. (invited)
    
    

21. November 2003 – Boulder, CO
    AmeriFlux Science Team Meeting and Department of Energy (DOE) Terrestrial Carbon Processes Annual Meeting
    Using Representativeness to Guide Expansion of the AmeriFlux Network. (invited)
    
    

22. August 2004 – Knoxville, TN
    University of Tennessee, Knoxville Innovative Computing Laboratory (ICL) Colloquium
    Why Linux Clusters are Good for the Environment. (invited).
    
    

23. September 2004 – Shepherdstown, WV
    Society for Conservation GIS – National Conservation Training Center, WV
    Panel Discussion – Evaluation of Conservation Strategies and Systems (invited).
    
    

24. September 2004 – Champaign, IL
    CERL Army Corps of Engineers
    Using a Corridor Tool to Define Threatened and Endangered Species for Areas near Military Bases (invited).
    
    

25. March 2005 – Daytona Beach, FL
    15^th Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting
    Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering of Time Series Data: An Approach for Diagnosing Cloud Properties and Understanding ARM Site Representativeness. (invited)
    
    

26. April 2005 – Knoxville, TN
    University of Tennessee Environmental Semester
    A Practical Map-analysis Tool for Potential Corridor Detection (invited).
    
    

27. September 2005 – Berkeley, CA
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Scientific Computing Seminar
    Climate and Carbon Software Engineering and Research on High End Computers. (invited)
    
    

28. November 2005 – Asheville, NC
    P. ramorum (Sudden Oak Death) Modelers’ Meeting
    Predicting National Susceptibility Patterns for Sudden Oak Death. (invited)
    
    

29. May 2006 – Washington, DC
    Invited Meeting with Daniel M. Ashe, Director, US Fish & Wildlife Service
    Multivariate Network Analysis Capabilities of Potential Interest to the US Fish & Wildlife Service (invited)
    
    

30. May 2006 – Washington, DC
    Invited Meeting with Roger C. Dahlman, Director, US DOE Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research
    AmeriFlux Representativeness, Site Importance, and Network Design. (invited)
    
    

31. February 2006 – Boulder, CO
    North American Carbon Program (NACP) Mid-Continent Intensive Task Force Meeting
    Updated Flux-Relevant Ecoregionalization Analysis for the NACP Mid-Continent Intensive. (invited)
    
    

32. March 2006 – San Diego, CA
    21st Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
    Development of a Domain Map for Nodes of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). (invited)
    
    

33. March 2006 – San Diego, CA
    21st Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
    MapCurves: A Quantitative Method for Comparing Categorical Maps. (invited)
    
    

34. March 2006 – San Diego, CA
    21st Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
    Using Clustered Climate Regimes for Understanding General Circulation Model Results. (invited)
    
    

35. March 2006 – San Diego, CA
    21st Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
    Use of Multivariate Cluster and Climate Classification Techniques to Characterize Future Climate Scenarios in the People’s Republic of China. (invited)
    
    

36. March 2006 – San Diego, CA
    21st Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
    Applying Quantitative Ecoregionalization to Network Analysis: Quantifying Representativeness and Determining Importance Values for AmeriFlux Sites. (invited)
    
    

37. March 2006 – Albuquerque, NM
    16^th Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting
    From Measurements to Models: Cross-Comparison of Measured and Simulated States of the Atmosphere. (invited)
    
    

38. September 2006 – Boone, NC
    Appalachian State University
    Multivariate Geographic Clustering as a Basis for Ecoregionalization in the Environmental Sciences (invited).
    
    

39. October 2006 - Boulder, CO
    AmeriFlux Science Team Meeting
    Constituency: Mapping the Areas that Flux Towers Represent Best. (invited)
    
    

40. October 2006 – Chicago, IL
    American Statistical Association
    Plenary: The Potential of Multivariate Quantitative Methods for Delineation and Visualization of Ecoregions (invited).
    
    

41. November 2006 - Salt Lake City, UT
    USDA FS Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) Forest Disturbance Mapping Meeting
    Conceptual Design for an Early Warning System (invited).
    
    

42. November 2006 - Tampa, FL
    SuperComputing 2006 (SC06)
    Development of a Domain Map for Nodes of the NSF's National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) (invited)
    
    

43. December 2006 - San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    Multivariate Geographic Clustering as a Basis for Ecoregionalization in the Environmental Sciences (invited).
    
    

44. January 2007 - Colorado Springs, CO
    North American Carbon Program (NACP) Investigators Meeting
    Constituency: Mapping the Areas that Flux Towers Represent Best (invited)
    
    

45. January 2007 - Colorado Springs, CO
    Joint Canada-Mexico-USA Carbon Program Planning Meeting
    Representativeness Mapping of FluxNet Tower Sites (invited)
    
    

46. March 2007 - Monterey, CA
    17th Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting
    From Measurements to Models: Cross-Comparison of Measured and Simulated Behavioral States of the Atmosphere (invited)
    
    

47. April 2007 - Tucson, AZ
    22nd Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE)
    Calculating Dispersal Pathways from Yellowstone to the Yukon and within the Southeastern Ecological Framework using the PATH Tool (invited)
    
    

48. April 2007 - Tucson, AZ
    22nd Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE)
    Using the PATH Model to Predict Corridors for Red-Cockaded Woodpecker and Gopher Tortoise Near Military Installations (invited)
    
    

49. April 2007 - Stennis, MS
    Stennis Space Center Review Meeting
    A Prototype Forest Threat Detection System Using Statistically Defined Forest States. (invited)
    
    

50. September 2007 - Asheville, NC
    Stennis Space Center Review
    A Prototype Threat Detection System Using Statistically Defined Forest States. (invited)
    
    

51. September 2007 - Pawley's Island, SC
    WWETAC/EFETAC Retreat
    A Prototype Threat Detection System Using Statistically Defined Forest States. (invited)
    
    

52. January 2008 – Portland, OR
    Western Wildland Environmental Threat Assessment Center (WWETAC) Climate Change Modeling Workshop
    No formal presentation (invited).
    
    

53. February 2008 – San Antonio, TX
    Forest Health Monitoring 14th Annual Meeting
    Tree Species Range Shifts Following Climate Change (invited).
    
    

54. April 2008 – Madison, WI
    23rd Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE)
    Assessing MODIS-based Products and Techniques for Detecting Gypsy Moth Defoliation (invited).
    
    

55. April 2008 – Madison, WI
    23rd Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE)
    Development of the FIRST National Early Warning System for Forest Threats (invited).
    
    

56. May 2008 – Portland, OR
    National Environmental Threat Assessment Mapping (NETAM) Workshop
    Development of the FIRST National Early Warning System for Forest Threats (invited).
    
    

57. August 2008 – Chattanooga, TN
    51st Annual Southern Forest Insect Work Conference (SFIWC)
    Quantitative Regionalization as a Basis for Long-Term National Monitoring of Forest Threats (invited)
    
    

58. January 2009 – Asheville, NC
    North Carolina Federal Interagency Committee Meeting
    Quantitative Regionalization as a Basis for Long-Term National Monitoring of Forest Threats (invited)
    
    

59. March 2009 – Athens, GA
    Forest Service Center for Forest Disturbance Science, Athens GA Unit
    Quantitative Regionalization as a Basis for Long-Term National Monitoring of Forest Threats (invited)
    
    

60. March 2009 – Oak Ridge, TN
    ORNL Environmental Sciences Division Research Seminar
    Quantitative Regionalization as a Basis for Long-Term National Monitoring of Forest Threats (invited)
    
    

61. March 2009 – Asheville, NC
    Blue Ridge Sustainability Institute – Leadership Team
    Quantitative Regionalization as a Basis for Long-Term National Monitoring of Forest Threats (invited)
    
    

62. May 2009 – Stennis, MS
    NASA Applied Sciences Program Research Seminar
    Derived Phenology Products Calculated From MODIS Phenology Parameters (invited)
    
    

63. June 2009 – London, United Kingdom
    IEEE Seminar
    Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering (MSTC) as a Data Mining Tool for Environmental Applications. (invited)
    
    

64. July 2009 – Oak Ridge, TN
    Center for BioEnergy Sustainability Forum
    Optimizing Global Placement of Biofuels Crops and Their Effect on Climatic Change (invited)
    
    

65. July 2009 – Atlanta, GA
    Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center Threat Advisory Committee (TAC) Review
    Long-Term National Monitoring of Forest Threats (invited)
    
    

66. August 2009 – Pescadero, CA
    Pest Risk Mapping Workshop
    Quantitative Regionalization as a Basis for Pest Risk Mapping (invited)
    
    

67. August 2009 – Pescadero, CA
    International Pest Risk Mapping Workgroup (IPMRW)A Practical Map Analysis Tool for Detecting Potential Dispersal Corridors (invited)
    
    

68. September 2009 – Orlando, FL
    Society of American Foresters Annual Meeting
    Landscape-Scale Approaches to Forest Change (invited)
    
    

69. September 2009 – Salt Lake City, UT
    Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC) Trends in Land Cover Change Workshop
    Toward a National Early Warning System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Land Surface Phenology (invited)
    
    

70. October 2009 – Asheville, NC
    Lecture, University of North Carolina Asheville
    Landscape-Scale Approaches to Forest Change Detection (invited)
    
    

71. October 2009 – Asheville, NC
    Blue Ridge Sustainability Institute (BRSI) Green Mondays Seminar Series
    Multivariate Sustainability Comparison Scores. (invited)
    
    

72. October 2009 – Milwaukee, WI
    USA - National Phenology Network (USA-NPN) Research Coordination Network (RCN) Meeting
    No formal presentation (invited).
    
    

73. January 2010 – Albuquerque, NM
    2010 Forest Health Monitoring Workgroup Meeting
    Working Toward a National Early Warning System for Forest Disturbances with Help from the ADS Program. (invited)
    
    

74. January 2010 – Albuquerque, NM
    2010 Forest Health Monitoring Workgroup Meeting
    Assessing Forest Tree Risk of Genetic Degradation from Climate Change (invited)
    
    

75. February 2010 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
    EFETAC/WWETAC Research Seminar
    Working Toward A National Early Warning System for Forest Disturbances With Help from the ADS Program (invited)
    
    

76. March 2010 – Corvallis, OR
    USDA Forest Service Forest Genetic Research Management Climate Change Workshop
    A Spatially Explicit Assessment of Climate Change Genetic Risk to 200 Forest Tree Species. (invited)
    
    

77. March 2010 – Stoneville, MS
    57^th Annual Southern Hardwood Forest Research Group Meeting
    Do Southern Hardwood Forests Have a Future? (invited)
    
    

78. April 2010 – Missoula, MT
    Cohesive Fire Strategy Research Meeting
    Statistically Delineating Two Independent Sets of Wildfire Biophysical Regions for the Conterminous United States (invited)
    
    

79. April 2010 – Athens, GA
    25th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE)
    Land Cover-Based Phenology Derived from MODIS Time Series. (invited)
    
    

80. April 2010 – Athens, GA
    25th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE)
    Use of Multi-year MODIS Phenological Data Products to Detect and Monitor Forest Disturbances at Regional and National Scales. (invited)
    
    

81. April 2010 – Athens, GA
    25th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE)
    High-Resolution National Phenological Ecoregions and Their Utility for Forest Monitoring (invited)
    
    

82. June 2010 – Raleigh, NC
    North Carolina Climate Change Coordination Meeting
    Climate Change, Forest Trees and Genetic Peril: Range Modeling for North Carolina and Beyond. (invited)
    
    

83. July 2010 – Honolulu, HI
    International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2010
    Geospatiotemporal Data Mining in an Early Warning System for Forest Threats in the United States. (invited)
    
    

84. July 2010 – Raleigh, NC
    Presentation to USDA Forest Service Washington Office Policy Analysis Interns
    Climate Change, Forest Trees and Genetic Peril. (invited)
    
    

85. August 2010 – Seoul, South Korea
    XXIII International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) World Congress
    Predicting Future Threats to Forests Using Environmental Variables (invited)
    
    

86. August 2010 – Asheville, NC
    5^th Symposium on Hemlock Wooly Adelgid
    Of Microsatellites, HWA and Climate Change: Assessing Genetic Diversity, and Threats to It, Across the Range of Eastern Hemlock. (invited)
    
    

87. September 2010 – Milwaukee, WI
    National Phenological Network (US-NPN) Research Coordination Network (RCN) Federal Stakeholders Meeting
    No formal presentation. (invited)
    
    

88. November 2010 – Research Triangle Park, NC
    Presentation to Duke University MS of Env. Mgmt. and MS of Forestry Students
    Climate Change, Forest Trees and Genetic Peril. (invited)
    
    

89. November 2010 – Gatlinburg, TN
    Southern Appalachians Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
    Toward a National Early Warning System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Land Surface Phenology (invited)
    
    

90. November 2010 – Gatlinburg, TN
    Southern Appalachians Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
    Of Microsatellites, HWA, and Climate Change: Assessing Eastern Hemlock Genetic Diversity, and Threats to It, in the Southern Appalachians. (invited)
    
    

91. November 2010 – Gatlinburg, TN
    Southern Appalachians Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
    Modeling the Timing and Duration of the Appalachian Spring: Implications for Biodiversity and Wildfire. (invited)
    
    

92. December 2010 – Denver, CO
    Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC)/Forest Health Technology Enterprise Team (FHTET) Combined Planning Meeting
    Toward a National Early Warning System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Land Surface Phenology. (invited)
    
    

93. December 2010 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
    First Friday All Climate Change Talks (FFACCTS, Northern- and Southern Station-wide Web Seminar)
    Global Tree Range Shifts Under Forecasts from Two Alternative GCMs Using Two Future Scenarios. (invited)
    
    

94. February 2011 – Prineville, OR
    Western Wildlands Environmental Threat Assessment Center (WWETAC) EWS Planning Meeting
    Toward a National Early Warning System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Land-Surface Phenology. (invited)
    
    

95. February 2011 – Asheville, NC
    National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) Thirsty Thursday Environmental Science Seminars
    Keynote Initial Presentation: Toward a National Early Warning System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Land-Surface Phenology. (invited)
    
    

96. February 2011 – Champaign-Urbana, IL
    University of Illinois, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
    Forecasting Ecosystem Shifts in Response to Climate Change.. (invited)
    
    

97. February 2011 – Washington, DC
    National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Inter-Agency Forum on Climate Change Impacts & Adaptations
    U.S. Scenarios for Ecosystem Stressors from Global Change. (invited)
    
    

98. March 2011 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
    First Friday All Climate Change Talks (FFACCTS, Northern- and Southern Station-wide Web Seminar)
    A Framework for Assessing the Relative Risk of Genetic Degradation to Forest Trees Affected by Climate Change and Other Threats. (invited)
    
    

99. March 2011 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
    Threat Assessment Centers Technical Users Group (TUG) Initial Meeting
    A Prototype National Early Warning System for Forest Disturbances Based on Remotely Sensed Land Surface Phenology. (invited)
    
    

100. March 2011 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
     Threat Assessment Centers Technical Users Group (TUG) Initial Meeting
     Global Tree Range Shifts Under Forecasts from Two Alternative GCMs Using Two Future Scenarios. (invited)
     
     

101. March 2011 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
     Threat Assessment Unit-Wide Meeting
     A Cross-Scale Approach for Modeling Species Local Response To Climate Change. (invited)
     
     

102. April 2011 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
     USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station (SRS)
     Geospatiotemporal Data Mining Applications in Forest Ecology. (invited)
     
     

103. April 2011 – Asheville, NC
     U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Computer Graphics Forum
     Determining Shifts in Climate Regimes Using Earth System Model Projections. (presentation video on Climate Change Resources site) (invited)
     
     

104. April 2011 – Portland, OR
     26th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE)
     Integrating Phenology into Cross-Scale Risk Assessments of Climate Change. (presentation video on Climate Change Resources site) (invited)
     
     

105. April 2011 – Portland, OR
     26th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE)
     Potential of MODIS satellite Data for Assessing Forests Vulnerable to Climate Change Impacts, Based on a Northern Front Range Case Study. (invited)
     
     

106. April 2011 – Portland, OR
     26th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE)
     Determining Shifts in Climate Regimes Using Earth System Model Projections. (invited)
     
     

107. April 2011 – Portland, OR
     26th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE)
     Global Tree Range Shifts Under Forecasts from Two Alternative GCMs Using Two Future Scenarios. (presentation video on Climate Change Resources site) (invited)
     
     

108. April 2011 – Portland, OR
     26th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE)
     Anticipating Climate-Change Induced Biome Shifts for Military Reservations. (presentation video on Climate Change Resources site) (invited)
     
     

109. April 2011 – Portland, OR
     26th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE)
     Adapt, Move, or Die: Spatially Explicit Assessment of Climate Change Genetic Degradation Risk in Forest Trees. (invited)
     
     

110. May 2011 – Lafayette, LA
     United States Geological Survey (USGS) National Wetlands Research Center (NWRC)
     Use of MODIS Forest Monitoring Products in Developing a Forest Threat Early Warning System. (invited)
     
     

111. May 2011 – Knoxville, TN
     Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA) Office, Region 8
     Global Tree Range Shifts Under Forecasts from Two Alternative GCMs Using Two Future Scenarios using FIA. (invited)
     
     

112. June 2011 – Roanoke, VA
     North American Forest Ecology Workshop (NAFEW)
     Adapt, Move or Die: Assessments of Forest Tree Genetic Degradation Risk due to Climate Change. (invited)
     
     

113. June 2011 – Republic of Singapore
     International Conference on Computational Science 2011 (ICCS 2011), Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS 2011)
     Keynote Address: Data Mining in Earth System Science. (invited)
     
     

114. June 2011 – Republic of Singapore
     International Conference on Computational Science 2011 (ICCS 2011), Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS 2011)
     Parallel k-Means Clustering for Quantitative Ecoregion Delineation Using Large Data Sets. (invited)
     
     

115. June 2011 – Republic of Singapore
     International Conference on Computational Science 2011 (ICCS 2011), Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS 2011)
     Cluster Analysis-Based Approaches for GeoSpatioTemporal Data Mining of Massive Data Sets for Identification of Forest Threats. (invited)
     
     

116. July 2011 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
     USDA Forest Service “Conversations with the Chief”
     A New National Early Warning System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Land Surface Phenology. (invited by Chief Tidwell)
     
     

117. July 2011 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
     U.S. Fish & Wildlife Northeast Region Science in Action Seminar Series
     Global Tree Range Shifts Under Forecasts from Two Alternative GCMs Using Two Future Scenarios. (invited)
     
     

118. August 2011 – Minneapolis, MN
     First Workshop on Understanding Climate Change through Data
     Data Mining for Climate Change Model Intercomparison (invited)
     
     

119. August 2011 – Austin, TX
     96th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
     Forest Tree Species Range Shifts Under Two Alternative GCM/Scenario Climate Change Forecasts. (invited)
     
     

120. August 2011 – Austin, TX
     96^th Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
     Toward Gene Conservation Triage: Assessing the Relative Genetic Risk to Forest Trees Affected by Multiple Threats. (invited)
     
     

121. September 2011 – Madrid, Spain
     IUFRO Restoring Forests: Advances in Techniques and Theory
     Determining Suitable Locations for Seed Transfer under Climate Change: A Global Quantitative Method. (invited)
     
     

122. December 2011 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Using Land Surface Phenology as the Basis for a National Early Warning System for Forest Disturbances. (invited)
     
     

123. January 2012 – Oak Ridge, TN
     Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) Scientific Advisory Board Meeting
     Site Representativeness and Sampling Network Design for the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE)-Arctic. (invited)
     
     

124. January 2012 – Oak Ridge, TN
     Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) Scientific Advisory Board Meeting
     A Statistical Methodology for Detecting and Monitoring Change in Forest Ecosystems Using Remotely Sensed Imagery. (invited)
     
     

125. February 2012 – Knoxville, TN
     National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS Workshop on Disturbance Regimes and Climate-Carbon Feedbacks
     A Statistical Methodology for Detecting and Monitoring Change in Forest Ecosystems Using Remotely Sensed Imagery. (invited)
     
     

126. March 2012 – Asheville, NC (web interview)
     Capital Ideas Live! Alabama Forest Owners’ Association, Inc.
     ForWarn: A Satellite-Based Monitoring and Assessment Tool. (audio) (invited)
     
     

127. March 2012 – Minneapolis, MN
     Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
     ForWarn: A New Satellite-Based Change Recognition and Tracking System for Identification of Forest Disturbances. (invited)
     
     

128. March 2012 – Oswego, MN
     Climate Adaptation in the Northwoods
     Forest Tree Species Range Shifts Under Two Alternative GCM/Scenario Climate Change Forecasts. (invited)
     
     

129. March 2012 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
     Initial ForWarn Unveiling and Rollout Webinar
     ForWarn: A New Satellite-Based Change Recognition and Tracking System for Identification of Forest Disturbances. (video) (invited)
     
     

130. March 2012 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
     Second ForWarn Unveiling and Rollout Webinar
     Using the ForWarn Change Assessment Viewer and Performing Forest Disturbance Assessments. (video) (invited)
     
     

131. March 2012 – Miami, FL
     10th Annual Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop
     Forecasting Global Ecosystem Change Pressure. (invited)
     
     

132. April 2012 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
     North Carolina Forest Service Forest Monitoring Planning Meeting
     ForWarn: A New Satellite-Based Change Recognition and Tracking System for Identification of Forest Disturbances. (invited)
     
     

133. April 2012 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
     U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Remote Sensing Task Group
     ForWarn: A New Satellite-Based Change Recognition and Tracking System for Identification of Forest Disturbances. (invited)
     
     

134. April 2012 – Boone, NC
     Biology Department Seminar, Appalachian State University
     Understanding Vegetation Change for Coarse-Filter Management. (invited)
     
     

135. April 2012 – Tucson, AZ
     2012 Forest Health Monitoring Work Group Meeting
     Where are the Margins that We Should Monitor? Dark (and Bright!) Corners of the Environmental Envelope. (invited)
     
     

136. May 2012 – Milwaukee, WI
     USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN) Research Coordination Network (RCN) Meeting
     No formal presentation (invited).
     
     

137. July 2012 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
     Forestry & Natural Resources Webinar, Southern Regional Extension Forestry
     ForWarn: A New Satellite-Based Change Recognition and Tracking System for Identification of Forest Disturbances. (invited).
     
     

138. August 2012 – Asheville, NC (webinar)
     USDA Forest Service Southern Station Station Management Review
     ForWarn Forest Disturbance Change Detection System Provides a Weekly Snapshot of US Forest Conditions to Aid Forest Managers (invited).
     
     

139. August 2012 – Sioux Falls, SD
     USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Data Center
     ForWarn: A New Satellite-Based Change Recognition and Tracking System for Identification of Forest Disturbances (invited).
     
     

140. August 2012 – Morgantown, WV
     Appalachian Mountains Joint Venture Technical Committee Meeting
     The Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (invited).
     
     

141. August 2012 – Brookings, SD
     Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, South Dakota State University
     ForWarn: A New Satellite-Based Change Recognition and Tracking System for Identification of Forest Disturbances (invited).
     
     

142. September 2012 - Knoxville, TN
     Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Meeting with USGS
     Using Land Surface Phenology for National Mapping of the Occurrence and Health of Evergreen and Deciduous Forests (invited)
     
     

143. October 2012 - Asheville, NC (virtual)
     USDA Forest Service Climate Change Field Team Meeting
     Monitoring and Predicting Effects of Climate Change on Forests (invited)
     
     

144. November 2012 - Asheville, NC
     NASA LCC-VP Project Meeting - Blue Ridge National Park Headquarters
     Forest Tree Species Range Shifts Under Two Alternative GCM/Scenario Climate Change Forecasts (invited)
     
     

145. December 2012 - San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     ForWarn: A Cross-Cutting Forest Resource Management and Decision Support System Providing the Capacity to Identify and Track Forest Disturbances Nationally (invited)
     
     

146. December 2012 - San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     ForWarn Forest Change Detection System Provides a Weekly Snapshot of US Forest Conditions to Aid Forest Managers (invited)
     
     

147. January 2013 - Asheville, NC
     EFETAC-NPS Meeting at Forest Service Southern Research Station
     ForWarn Forest Change Detection System Provides a Weekly Snapshot of US Forest Conditions to Aid Forest Managers. (invited)
     
     

148. January 2013 - Asheville, NC
     EFETAC-NPS Meeting at Forest Service Southern Research Station
     The Land Surface Phenology of Great Smoky Mountains National Park: A Preliminary Satellite and Climatic Analysis (invited)
     
     

149. February 2013 - Little Rock, AR
     Southern Group of State Foresters (SGSF) GIS Task Force Annual Meeting
     ForWarn Forest Change Detection System Provides a Weekly Snapshot of U.S. Forest Conditions to Aid Forest Managers (invited)
     
     

150. March 2013 - Gatlinburg, TN
     Great Smoky Mountains National Park Science Colloquium
     ForWarn Forest Change Detection System Provides a Weekly Snapshot of U.S. Forest Conditions to Aid Forest Managers (invited)
     
     

151. March 2013 - Gatlinburg, TN
     National Park Service, Appalachian Highlands Network
     Forest Disturbance Mapping and Phenology Research (invited)
     
     

152. April 2013 - Opelika, AL
     Alabama Forest Owners Association
     ForWarn Forest Change Detection System Provides a Weekly Snapshot of U.S. Forest Conditions to Aid Forest Managers (invited) (video here)
     
     

153. April 2013 - Asheville, NC
     Mountain Region GIS Alliance (MRGAC) Meeting
     Geospatial Tools for Short- and Long-term Forest Change Mapping (invited)
     
     

154. April 2013 - Austin, TX
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     A Global Quantitative Method for Determining Suitable Seed Transfer Locations Under Climate Change (invited)
     
     

155. April 2013 - Austin, TX
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Developing Phenoregion Maps Using Remotely Sensed Imagery (invited)
     
     

156. April 2013 - Austin, TX
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Using Land Surface Phenology for National Mapping of the Occurrence and Health of Evergreen and Deciduous Forests - (invited)
     
     

157. April 2013 - Austin, TX
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     ForWarn Forest Disturbance Change Detection System Provides a Weekly Snapshot of U.S. Forest Conditions to Aid Forest Managers (invited)
     
     

158. April 2013 - Austin, TX
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Recent Efforts to Improve the Near Real Time Forest Disturbance Monitoring Capabilities of the ForWarn System (invited)
     
     

159. April 2013 - Austin, TX
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Predicting Long-Term Wildfire Effects from Multi-Seasonal Satellite Data (invited)
     
     

160. April 2013 - Austin, TX
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Monitoring the Sensitivity of Spring Greenup to Climate Variation in the Southern Appalachians (invited)
     
     

161. June 2013 – Keshena, WI
     Native American Inter-Tribal Timber Council (ITC) Meeting
     ForWarn: A Forest Resource Management System Providing the Capacity to Identify and Track Forest Disturbances Nationally. (invited) (video and slides available)
     
     

162. June 2013 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     USDA Forest Service Landscape Ecology Seminar Series
     ForWarn Forest Disturbance Change Detection System Provides a Weekly Snapshot of U.S. Forest Conditions to Aid Forest Managers. (invited) (video available, transcript available)
     
     

163. August 2013 – Oak Ridge, TN
     Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Science and Mathematics Division
     When Monitoring is Not Enough: Predicting Post-Wildfire Trajectories from MODIS Time Series (invited)
     
     

164. August 2013 – Milwaukee, WI
     National Phenology Network (NPN) Seasonal Timing Working Group Meeting
     Data Mining for Climate Change Model Intercomparison and Phenoregions (both invited)
     
     

165. September 2013 – Gatlinburg, TN
     Smoky Mountains Computational Science and Engineering Conference
     Data Mining for Climate Change Model Intercomparison (invited)
     
     

166. September 2013 – Gatlinburg, TN
     Smoky Mountains Computational Science and Engineering Conference
     Big Data in the Geosciences: Data Mining Methods for Characterizing Ecoregions, Designing Sampling Networks, and Detecting Forest Health Threats (invited)
     
     

167. September 2013 – Gatlinburg, TN
     Smoky Mountains Computational Science and Engineering Conference
     Classification and Delineation of Large Earth Science Data (invited)
     
     

168. September 2013 – Oak Ridge, TN
     National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGIA) Briefing
     Data Mining for Climate Change Model Intercomparison and Big Data in the Geosciences: Data Mining Methods for Characterizing Ecoregions, Designing Sampling Networks, and Detecting Forest Health Threats (invited)
     
     

169. October 2013 – Chicago, IL
     Janet Meakin Poor Symposium, 40^th Annual Natural Areas Conference
     Dynamic and Quantitative Seed-Transfer Tools to Assist Forest Restoration under Climate Change. (invited)
     
     

170. October 2013 – Asheville, NC (virtual webinar)
     USDA Forest Service Landscape Ecology Seminar Series
     Predicting Long-Term Wildfire Effects Across Complex Landscapes (invited) (video available, transcript available)
     
     

171. November 2013 – Asheville, NC
     University of North Carolina, Asheville – Ecology Lecture
     Ecological Resilience (invited)
     
     

172. November 2013 – Denver, CO
     4^th SC Workshop on Petascale (Big) Data Analytics (BDAC-13), ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2013 Conference (SC13)
     Integrating Unsupervised Classification and Expert Knowledge to Develop Phenoregion Maps Using Remotely Sensed Imagery (invited)
     
     

173. December 2013 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Empirical Mining of Large Data Sets Already Helps to Solve Practical Ecological Problems: A Panoply of Working Examples (invited)
     
     

174. December 2013 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Integrating Statistical and Expert Knowledge to Develop Phenoregions for the Continental United States (invited)
     
     

175. February 2014 – Oak Ridge, TN
     Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) ORNL Seminar
     Developing U.S. Phenoregions from Remote Sensing and the Award-Winning ForWarn System (invited)
     
     

176. February 2014 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     Cooperative Extension Community of Practice on Climate, Forests and Woodlands
     Global Tree Range Shifts Under Forecasts from Two Alternative GCMs Using Two Future Scenarios AND ForWarn Forest Change Detection System Provides a Weekly Snapshot of US Forest Conditions to Aid Forest Mangers (invited)
     
     

177. April 2014 – Asheville, NC
     Southern Research Station State Line Meeting (LA and MS)
     ForWarn Aids Forest Resource Mangers (invited)
     
     

178. April 2014 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     Blue Mountain Forest Vegetation Workshop for the Malheur, Umatilla and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests
     Detecting and Tracking Forest Change in the Blue Mountains of Oregon and Washington Using the ForWarn System (invited)
     
     

179. May 2014 – Lemont, IL
     Argonne National Laboratory High Performance Computing Geospatial Workshop
     Empirical Mining of Large Data Sets to Solve Practical Ecological Problems (invited)
     
     

180. May 2014 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     Wildland Fire Management Research, Development and Application Group, U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
     Five Applications of the ForWarn System for Wildland Fire Management (invited)
     
     

181. May 2014 – Asheville, NC
     ORNL and NASA Stennis Space Center Team Visit to SRS
     Utility and Behavior of National Phenoregions for Characterizing Seasonal Changes (invited)
     
     

182. May 2014 – Asheville, NC
     ORNL and NASA Stennis Space Center Team Visit to SRS
     Tree Species Potential National Richness and Endemism (invited)
     
     

183. June 2014 – Boulder, CO
     Fourth Workshop on Understanding Climate Change from Data
     Representativeness-based Sampling Network Design for NGEE and Identifying Phenoregions for the Conterminous U.S. (invited)
     
     

184. July 2014 – Washington, DC
     Principal Investigators Meeting, Macrosystems Biology Program, National Science Foundation
     Predicting Regional Invasion Dynamic Processes (PRIDE); A Functional Trait-Based, Multi-Scale Research Framework (invited)
     
     

185. July 2014 – Asheville, NC
     Predicting Regional Invasion Dynamic Processes (PRIDE) Team Visit to SRS
     Application of ForeCASTS in Invasion Analysis (invited)
     
     

186. July 2014 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     Pisgah National Forest Grandfather Restoration Project, Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP)
     Can We Achieve Restoration Goals for Eastern Dry Forests with Invasives and Climate Change? (invited)
     
     

187. July 2014 – Oak Ridge, TN
     Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) ORNL Seminar
     Landscape Characterization and Representativeness Analysis for Understanding Sampling Network Coverage (invited)
     
     

188. August 2014 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     Menominee Tribe, Wisconsin
     ForWarn Forest Disturbance Assessments Advanced Training (invited)
     
     

189. October 2014 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     Forestry and Natural Resources Webinar Series, Southern Regional Extension Forestry
     Tracking Forest and Landscape Change from Space Using the ForWarn System. (invited)
     
     

190. December 2014 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Predominant Environmental Factors Controlling and Predicting Phenological Seasonality Across the CONUS over the Last Decade. (invited) video of talk from AGU
     
     

191. January 2015 – Sao Jose Dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
     12^th Regional Workshop on Forest Monitoring GEO Global Forest Observation Initiative (GFOI), Early Warning Systems for Deforestation in Real Time
     ForWarn: A Cross-Cutting Forest Resource Management and Decision-Support System. (invited) web link to workshop description and presentations photo
     
     

192. January 2015 – Sao Jose Dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
     Forest Monitoring Group on Earth Observation (GEO) Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) – Early Warning Systems for Deforestation in Real Time
     Utility and Behavior of National Phenoregions for Characterization of Vegetation, Habitat and Seasonal Changes. (invited) web link to workshop description agenda participants presentations report
     
     

193. January 2015 – Sao Jose Dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
     Forest Monitoring Group on Earth Observation (GEO) Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI) – Early Warning Systems for Deforestation in Real Time
     ForWarn Forest Change Detection System Provides a Weekly Snapshot of US Forest Conditions to Aid Forest Managers. (invited) web link to workshop description agenda participants presentations report
     
     

194. January 2015 – Columbia, SC
     Appalachian Chapter, Society of American Foresters (APSAF), 94^th Annual Winter Meeting
     Recognizing Gradual Loss of Forest Resilience Using Continuous Satellite-Based Monitoring. (invited)
     
     

195. January 2015 – Oak Ridge, TN
     Meeting with Hans Langeveld from Belgium
     An Overview of the ForWarn Forest Disturbance Monitoring System. (invited)
     
     

196. February 2015 – Raleigh, NC
     North Carolina GIS (NC-GIS) Meeting
     ForWarn: A Satellite-Based Forest Change Recognition and Tracking System. (invited) video of talk
     
     

197. March 2015 – Asheville, NC
     Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA) State Forester Coordinators Meeting
     The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program and Systematic Remotely-Sensed Forest Monitoring: Do These Provide Parallel or Interconnected Insights? (invited)
     
     

198. March 2015 – Asheville, NC
     University of North Carolina Asheville (UNCA), Seminar in Climate Change and Society, CCS 560
     Interpreting Drought and Disturbance Impacts to Natural Systems from Remotely Observed Change: Uses and Challenges of “Big Data.” (invited)
     
     

199. May 2015 – Boulder, CO
     Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System (CSDMS) Annual Meeting
     Computational Approaches for Model, Experiment, and Data Integration Supporting Site Characterization and Model Evaluation. (invited keynote address)
     
     

200. July 2015 – Portland, OR
     9^th International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) World Congress
     High Performance Computational Landscape Ecology and Using Clustering to Define Climate Regimes. (invited)
     
     

201. July 2015 – Portland, OR
     9^th International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) World Congress
     Directions in Computationally Intensive Landscape Ecology. (invited)
     
     

202. July 2015 – Honolulu, HI
     52^nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC)
     Characterizing Tropical Forest Representativeness for Optimizing Sampling Network Coverage. (invited)
     
     

203. July 2015 – Fayetteville, AR
     Southern Forest Insect Work Conference (SFIWC)
     ForWarn, A National Satellite-Based Forest Disturbance Detection System, and Other Uses of Phenology and Remote Sensing Data for Large-Scale Vegetation Monitoring. (invited)
     
     

204. August 2015 – Baltimore, MD
     100^th Annual Ecological Society of America (ESA) Meeting
     Looking Back to See Ahead: Considering Genetic Divergence within Tree Species to Anticipate Responses to Climate Change. (invited)
     
     

205. August 2015 – BWI, Linthicum Heights, MD
     First Annual Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) Tropics Meeting
     Characterizing Tropical Forest Representativeness for Optimizing Sampling Network Coverage. (invited)
     
     

206. August 2015 – Oak Ridge, TN
     Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) Arctic Phase II Review
     Representativeness-Based Sampling Network Design and Scaling Strategies for Measurements in Arctic Ecosystems. (invited)
     
     

207. August 2015 – Asheville, NC
     Federal InterAgency Committee (FIC) Meeting
     ForWarn, A National Satellite-Based Forest Disturbance Detection System, and Other Diverse Uses of Phenology and Remote Sensing Data for Large-Scale Vegetation Monitoring. (invited)
     
     

208. September 2015 – Washington, DC
     Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) Arctic Phase 2 Review
     Representativeness-Based Sampling Network Design and Scaling Strategies for Measurements in Arctic Ecosystems. (invited)
     
     

209. September 2015 – Huntsville, AL
     Alabama A&M University
     Tracking Forest Change from Space: How Technology is Transforming the Way We Think About Disturbance. (invited)
     
     

210. September 2015 – Asheville, NC
     Mountain Region GIS Alliance (MRGAC)
     Not Just in the Eye of the Beholder – Quantitatively Ranking 340 Scenic Overlook Vistas Along the Blue Ridge Parkway for Spring and Fall Views Using GIS. (invited)
     
     

211. September 2015 – Raleigh, NC
     North Carolina State University Center for Geospatial Analytics Geospatial Forum
     ForWarn, A National Satellite-Based Forest Disturbance Detection System, and Other Diverse Uses of Phenology and Remote Sensing Data for Large-Scale Vegetation Monitoring. Click here for video (invited)
     
     

212. October 2015 – Knoxville, TN
     University of Tennessee Knoxville Department of Geography Colloquium
     ForWarn, A National Satellite-Based Forest Disturbance Detection System, and Other Diverse Uses of Phenology and Remote Sensing Data for Large-Scale Vegetation Monitoring. (invited)
     
     

213. November 2015 – San Antonio, TX
     6^th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Association for Fire Ecology
     An Empirically Derived National Map of Relative Wildfire Probability Rankings Suitable for Comparison with Independent Efforts. (invited)
     
     

214. November 2015 – San Antonio, TX
     6^th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Association for Fire Ecology
     Mining the Historical MODIS Hotspots Archive to Characterize Global Fire Regimes. (invited)
     
     

215. November 2015 – San Antonio, TX
     6^th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Association for Fire Ecology
     Scalable Analysis of Remotely Sensed Phenology for Monitoring and Discovery of Patterns in Ecosystem Resilience. (invited)
     
     

216. November 2015 – San Antonio, TX
     6^th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Association for Fire Ecology
     Big Problems Demand Big Data: Promise and Pitfalls of Using Big Data to Cohesively Manage Wildland Fire. (invited)
     
     

217. November 2015 – San Antonio, TX
     6th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Association for Fire Ecology
     Applying a Big Data Approach to Detecting Fire Disturbances and Recovery at a Continental Scale Using Satellite Remote Sensing. (invited)
     
     

218. November 2015 – San Antonio, TX
     6^th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Association for Fire Ecology
     Monitoring Seasonal Fire Niches with Large Phenological and Fire Datasets. (invited)
     
     

219. December 2015 – San Francisco, CA
     Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) Arctic All Hands Meeting
     Representativeness-Based Sampling Network Design and Scaling Strategies for Measurements in Arctic Ecosystems. (invited).
     
     

220. January 2016 – St. Petersburg, FL
     Integrated Network for Terrestrial Ecosystem Research on Feedbacks to the Atmosphere and Climate (INTERFACE): Linking Experimentalists, Ecosystem Modelers, and Earth System Modelers
     Computational Approaches for Model, Experiment, and Data Integration Supporting Site Characterization and Model Evaluation. (invited)
     
     

221. February 2016 – Columbia, SC
     Southern Group of State Foresters (SGSF) GIS Task Force Annual Meeting
     ForWarn Update (invited)
     
     

222. February 2016 – Raleigh, NC
     North Carolina Geographic Information System Coordination Council (NCGICC)
     ForWarn and the Forest Change Assessment Viewer (invited)
     
     

223. March 2016 – Asheville, NC (virtual webinar)
     Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals (ANREP), Climate Science Initiative Series
     The Eastern Forest Environmental Assessment Center and Tools, with an Introduction to ForWarn (invited)
     
     

224. March 2016 – Asheville, NC (virtual webinar)
     USDA Forest Service Region 8 and Region 13 Forest Health personnel and State Cooperators
     The ForWarn Forest Disturbance and Monitoring System (invited)
     
     

225. April 2016 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     Northeastern State Coordinators of the Forest Legacy Program (FLP)
     A National Satellite-Based Forest Disturbance Detection System in Near-Real Time (invited)
     
     

226. April 2016 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     Menominee Tribal Enterprise, Menominee Native American Nation
     A National Satellite-Based Forest Disturbance Detection System in Near-Real Time (invited)
     
     

227. April 2016 – Boulder, CO
     Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group (CCIWG) – Workshop on Sustained Observations for Carbon Cycle Science and Decision Support, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
     Integrating Models and Observations: Reducing Biases in Earth System Models and Community Benchmarking of Land Models. (invited)
     
     

228. April 2016 – Asheville, NC
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Forest Structural Complexity of the Southern Appalachians Revealed by Above-Ground LiDAR Classification. (hosted, organized and conducted this meeting) (invited)
     
     

229. April 2016 – Asheville, NC
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Characterization and Classification of Vegetation Canopy Structure and Distribution within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park using LiDAR. (hosted, organized and conducted this meeting) (invited)
     
     

230. April 2016 – Asheville, NC
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Detecting and Tracking Shifts in National Vegetation Composition. (hosted, organized and conducted this meeting) (invited)
     
     

231. April 2016 – Asheville, NC
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Synthesis of Satellite NDVI Products and Vegetation Dynamics in Earth System Models using a Data Mining Approach. (hosted, organized and conducted this meeting) (invited)
     
     

232. April 2016 – Asheville, NC
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Scalable Machine-Learning Approaches for Analysis of Large Phenological Datasets. (hosted, organized and conducted this meeting) (invited)
     
     

233. April 2016 – Asheville, NC
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Phenology and Seasonality as Integrative Indicators of Ecosystem Health: Recent Developments and Prospects. (hosted, organized and conducted this meeting) (invited)
     
     

234. April 2016 – Asheville, NC
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Temporal Analysis of Phenology to Objectively Determine Normal Seasonality of Vegetation Across the United States. (hosted, organized and conducted this meeting) (invited)
     
     

235. April 2016 – Asheville, NC
     Blue Ridge Parkway Research and Science Symposium
     Mapping Forest Structure Along the Southern Blue Ridge Parkway from LiDAR. (invited)
     
     

236. April 2016 – Nashville, TN (virtual)
     US Forest Service Region 8 Resource Information Management (RIM) Geospatial Workshop
     Core Applications of ForWarn Data for Forest Service Planning, Monitoring and Management. (invited)
     
     

237. May 2016 – Chicago, IL
     Banking on the Future: Gene conservation of Forest Trees Workshop
     CAPTURE: A U.S. National Prioritization Assessment of Tree Species for Conservation. (invited)
     
     

238. June 2016 – Laurel Springs, NC
     North Carolina Society of American Foresters – Summer Meeting
     Seeing Through the Point Cloud; Mapping and Monitoring Local to Landscape Forest Structure with LiDAR. (invited)
     
     

239. August 2016 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     Joint Threat Centers Board of Directors Meeting–
     Eastern Threat Center Special Emphasis Area: Forest Monitoring. (invited)
     
     

240. September 2016 – Rockville, MD
     Advancing Cross-Cutting Ideas for Computational Climate Science
     Co-Design of Large Scale Climate Data Analytics for Emerging Supercomputing Architectures. (invited)
     
     

241. September 2016 – Washington, DC
     Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiment (NGEE) Tropics All Hands Meeting, Smithsonian S. Dillon Ripley Center
     Understanding the Representativeness of FLUXNET for Upscaling Carbon Flux from Eddy Covariance Measurements. (invited)
     
     

242. September 2016 – Golden, CO
     2016 AmeriFlux Principal Investigators Meeting
     Understanding the Evolving Representativeness of Measurement Networks for Scaling Carbon Flux, Optimizing Network Coverage, and Benchmarking Models. (invited)
     
     

243. October 2016 – Winston-Salem, NC
     Wake Forest University Dept. of Biology Seminar
     Landscape Dynamics Assessment: Quantifying the Shifting Landscape Mosaic. (invited)
     
     

244. November 2016 – Asheville, NC
     EFETAC Meeting with Forest Inventory Analysis
     LanDAT, a New Conceptual Foundation to Steer Land Management. (invited)
     
     

245. December 2016 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     Visiting Scientists, South Korea National Institute of Forest Science
     The ForWarn Forest Disturbance Monitoring System (invited)
     
     

246. December 2016 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
     The ForWarn Forest Disturbance Monitoring System. (invited)
     
     

247. February 2017 – Asheville, NC
     Asheville Chapter of the American Meteorological Society (AMS)
     Using Landscape Phenology to Understand Climatic and Biogeographic Influences on Vegetation Seasonality. (invited)
     
     

248. February 2017 – Asheville, NC
     Asheville Chapter of the American Meteorological Society (AMS)
     Seasonal climatic and Phenological Peculiarities of the Fall 2016 Southern Appalachian Fire Season. (invited)
     
     

249. February 2017 – Raleigh, NC
     Southern Group of State Foresters (SGSF) GIS Task Force Annual Meeting
     ForWarn Update (invited)
     
     

250. February 2017 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     NASA DEVELOP students and faculty at New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM
     Data Sharing of ForWarn’s Standard and Landscape-Scale Research Products (invited)
     
     

251. February 2017 – Asheville, NC
     Dean, Faculty and Students of Mayland Community College
     ForWarn Introduction (invited)
     
     

252. March 2017 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     First Friday All Climate Change Talks (FFACCTs)
     The Effects of Climate Variability on Vegetation Phenology Across Great Smoky Mountains National Park. (invited)
     
     

253. March 2017 – Zachary, LA (virtual)
     National Association of State Foresters (NASF) Science and Forest Health Committee Annual Meeting
     A National Satellite-Based Forest Disturbance Detection System in Near-Real-Time (invited)
     
     

254. March 2017 – Mars Hill, NC
     Sigma Xi University of North Carolina-Asheville Intercollegiate Presentation Series
     ForWarn, A National Satellite-Based Forest Disturbance Detection System, and Other Uses of Phenology and Remote Sensing Data for Large-Scale Vegetation Monitoring. (invited)
     
     

255. April 2017 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     USDA Forest Service Geospatial Technology and Applications Center (formerly RSAC) Region 8 Remote Sensing Training Webinar
     A National Satellite-Based Forest Disturbance Detection System in Near-Real-Time (invited)
     
     

256. April 2017 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     Virginia Division of Forestry, Forest Health Staff
     A National Satellite-Based Forest Disturbance Detection System in Near-Real-Time (invited)
     
     

257. May 2017 – Asheville, NC
     Natural Capital InVEST (Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-Offs) Workshop
     Mapping Grey Ghosts in Appalachian Hollows Using Change in Dormant-Season Imagery. (invited)
     
     

258. May 2017 – Jena, Germany
     2017 FLUXCOM Workshop
     Understanding the Representativeness of FLUXNET for Upscaling Carbon Flux from Eddy Covariance Measurements (invited)
     
     

259. July 2017 – Melbourne, FL
     58^th Annual Southern Forest Insect Work Conference (SFIWC)
     ForWarn and Other Uses of Satellite Phenology for Identification and Monitoring of Forest Insect Disturbances. (invited)
     
     

260. September 2017 – Asheville, NC
     Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Mountain Region GIS Alliance (MRGAC) Meeting
     Mapping Fire Effects at 10m Using Sentinel 2 Seasonal Composites (invited)
     
     

261. November 2017 – Cullowhee, NC
     Western Carolina University Paul Burton Seminar Series
     Southern Appalachian Fire Regimes as a Cultural-Climate Phenomenon. (invited)
     
     

262. November 2017 – New Orleans, LA
     Seventh Workshop on Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS 2017), held in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2017)
     Quantifying Seasonal Patterns in Disparate Environmental Variables Using the PolarMetrics R Package. (invited)
     
     

263. February 2018 – Phoenix, AZ
     National Forest Health Monitoring Workshop
     ForWarn II and Other Uses of Satellite Phenology for Identification and Monitoring of Forest Disturbances. (invited plenary)
     
     

264. February 2018 – Phoenix, AZ
     National Forest Health Monitoring Workshop
     New Approaches for Monitoring Forest Disturbance Impacts From Space with Frequent High Resolution Technologies. (invited plenary)
     
     

265. February 2018 – Mobile, AL (virtual)
     Southern Group of State Foresters
     ForWarn and Sentinel 2 Update. (invited)
     
     

266. April 2018 – Chicago, IL
     Laboratory for Advanced Numerical Simulation, Argonne National Laboratory
     Scalable Unsupervised Learning Approaches for Analysis of Large Geospatiotemporal Data Sets. (invited)
     
     

267. April 2018 – Chicago, IL
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Using Linear and Non-Linear Temporal Adjustments to Match an Annual Phenological Profile to a Reference Profile for Direct Comparison of Vegetation Status and Health. (invited)
     
     

268. April 2018 – Chicago, IL
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Data Mining Historical MODIS Hotspots Archive to Characterize Global Fire Regimes. (invited)
     
     

269. April 2018 – Chicago, IL
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Applying Google Earth Engine to Wildfire Disturbance Detection in the State of Alaska. (invited)
     
     

270. August 2018 – Chicago, IL
     Gaps and Opportunities for Machine Learning and GeoStatistics in Geospatial Aspects of Natural Science Domains; Ecology, Hydrology, Soil Science and Agriculture – Argonne National Laboratory
     A Generic Imputer to Estimate Species Productivity After Global Tree Range Shifts Under Forecasts From Two Alternative GCMs Using Two Future Scenarios (invited plenary)
     
     

271. December 2018 – Washington, DC
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     New National Percent Greenup Completion Departure Maps Show Deviations in the Seasonal Progression of Vegetation Timing Every 8 Days (invited)
     
     

272. December 2018 – Miramar Beach, FL
     Forest Service Region 8 Burn Boss Annual Refresher
     Mountain Wave-Induced Wildfire Behavior: The Deadly Eastern Tennessee Fires of 2016. (invited)
     
     

273. December 2018 – Miramar Beach, FL
     Forest Service Region 8 Burn Boss Annual Refresher
     Hurricane Impacts to Puerto Rico’s Forests: The Importance of Topography and Chance. (invited)
     
     

274. December 2018 – Miramar Beach, FL
     Forest Service Region 8 Burn Boss Annual Refresher
     Hurricane Michael Impacts to Southern Forest Fuels: Tracking Storm Effects as They Evolve. (invited)
     
     

275. January 2019 – Savannah, GA
     Southern Group of State Foresters (SGSF) Forest Health and GIS Committee Meeting
     ForWarn II Update and Recent Disturbance Assessments. (invited)
     Unable to present due to Federal Government Shutdown, but talk slides disseminated after funding resumed
     
     

276. April 2019 – NOAA, College Station, MD
     1^st NOAA Workshop on Leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Exploitation of Satellite Earth Observations & Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
     EarthInsights: Parallel Clustering of Large Earth Science Datasets on the Summit Supercomputer. (invited)
     
     

277. May 2019 – Salt Lake City, UT
     USFS – NASA Joint Applications Workshop
     Overview of USDA Forest Service Management Goals and Information Needs for Early Warning Systems. (invited)
     
     

278. May 2019 – Helsinki, Finland
     Department of Forest Sciences, University of Helsinki
     ForWarn II, A Continental Satellite-Based Forest Disturbance Detection System (invited)
     Unable to travel due to delayed Ethics sponsored travel approval – University of Helsinki needed assured participation sooner
     
     

279. May 2019 – Athens, GA
     USDA FS Athens Unit
     Remote Sensing Monitoring Research Related to the 2016 Southern Appalachian Fires (invited)
     
     

280. June 2019 – Franklin, TN
     Southern Group of State Foresters (SGSF) GIS Committee Meeting
     High-Resolution Forest Disturbance Mapping. (invited)
     
     

281. August 2019 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     USDA Forest Service Region 8 GIS Coordinators
     ForWarn II and HiForM Disturbance Mapping On-Line Tools. (invited)
     
     

282. September 2019 – Asheville, NC (virtual)
     USDA Forest Service National Group of GIS Coordinators
     ForWarn II and HiForM Disturbance Mapping. (invited)
     
     

b. Contributed papers and posters since 2000

1. March 2000 - Washington, DC
   High-Performance Computing 2000
   Mechanistic-Based Genetic Algorithm Search on a Beowulf Cluster of Linux PCs.
   
   

2. April 2000 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
   15th Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
   An Analytical Assessment Tool for Predicting Changes in a Species Distribution Map Following Changes in Environmental Conditions.
   
   

3. August 2000 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
   IUFRO World Congress
   Nutrient Management Guidance for Enhancing Sustainable Forest Productivity.
   
   

4. September 2000 - Banff, Alberta, CANADA
   Fourth International Conference on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modeling
   An Analytical Assessment Tool for Predicting Changes in a Species Distribution Map Following Changes in Environmental Conditions.
   
   

5. November 2000 - Dallas, TX
   Supercomputing '00
   Climate Change Effects Predicted by Two Leading Global Circulation Models Compared to Present-day Climate.
   
   

6. April 2001 – Tempe, AZ
   16th Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
   Multivariate Ecoregions of the United States: a Statistical Delineation.
   
   

7. December 2001 – San Francisco, CA
   American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
   FLUXNET: Distribution of a Global Network of Eddy-covariance Towers and their Role in Validating Models and Remote Sensing Products.
   
   

8. April 2002 – Lincoln, NE
   17th Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
   Computer-generated Ecoregions as a Basis for Sampling-network Design.
   
   

9. June 2002 – Washington, D.C
   Ecosystem Health Conference.
   Investigations of Environmental Factors and Cancer Mortality using GIS and Spatial Analytical Tools.
   
   

10. July 2002 – Shepherdsville, WV
    National GAP Program annual meeting
    Statistical Delineation of Ecoregions of Nebraska using GAP Data.
    
    

11. July 2002 – Missoula, MT
    MODIS Vegetation workshop
    A “Make-a-difference” Experiment to Assess the Value of ARM Data in Carbon Cycle Models.
    
    

12. April 2003 – Kansas City, MO
    ASTM Symposium on Landscape Ecology and Wildlife Habitat Evaluation
    A Practical Map-analysis Tool for Corridor Detection.
    
    

13. April 2003 – Kansas City, MO
    ASTM Symposium on Landscape Ecology and Wildlife Habitat Evaluation
    Toward a Framework for Assessing Risk to Vertebrate Populations from Brine and Petroleum Spills at Exploration and Production Sites.
    
    

14. May 2003 – Washington, D.C
    North American Carbon Program (NACP) Planning Meeting.
    Optimization of Sampling Network-design Within a Quantitative Ecoregion Framework.
    
    

15. June 2003 – Portsmouth, NH
    USDA Forest Service NACP Tier III Meeting
    Representativeness and Network Site Analysis Based on Quantitative Ecoregions.
    
    

16. December 2003 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting
    A Novel Method for Analyzing and Interpreting GCM Results Using Clustered Climate Regimes.
    
    

17. December 2003 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Meeting
    Environmental Representativeness of the AmeriFlux Network.
    
    

18. April 2004 – Las Vegas, NV
    19th Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
    A Practical Map-analysis Tool for Potential Corridor Detection.
    
    

19. August 2004 – Missoula, MT
    MODIS Global Vegetation Workshop
    Improving Representativeness of the AmeriFlux Network based on MODIS Vegetation Information.
    
    

20. September 2004 – Shepherdstown, WV
    Society for Conservation GIS – National Conservation Training Center, WVa
    A Practical Map-analysis Tool for Potential Corridor Detection.
    
    

21. October 2004 – Boulder, CO
    AmeriFlux Science Team Meeting
    Representativeness of the AmeriFlux Network.
    
    

22. December 2004 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    Quantifying Representation and Using Representation Weights to Interpolate Flux Tower Measurements across the United States.
    
    

23. March 2005 – Syracuse, NY
    20th Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
    Mapcurves: A Quantitative Method for Comparing Categorical Maps.
    
    

24. October 2005 – Boulder, CO
    AmeriFlux Science Team Meeting
    Quantifying Representativeness Importance Values for AmeriFlux Sites.
    
    

25. December 2005 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    Quantifying Representativeness Importance Values for AmeriFlux Tower Locations.
    
    

26. December 2005 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    Development of a Domain Map for Nodes of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).
    
    

27. January 2006 – Boulder, CO
    1st Integrated Land Ecosystem – Atmosphere Processes Study (iLEAPS) Science Conference
    Quantifying Representativeness Importance Values for AmeriFlux Tower Locations.
    
    

28. December 2006 - San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    Preliminary Results from the CCSM Carbon-Land Model Intercomparison Project (C-LAMP)
    
    

29. July 2007 - Orlando, FL
    SERDP/ESTCP Meeting
    Finding the Needle in the Haystack: Tools for more Efficient Surveying of Rare Species.
    
    

30. October 2007 - Johnson City, TN
    Southern Appalachians Man And the Biosphere (SAMAB)
    Sustainable Biomass Supply and Appalachian Landscape Resources - To Be Degraded Or Invaded?
    
    

31. October 2007 – Portland, OR
    Society of American Foresters 2007 National Convention
    Assessing the Potential of Multitemporal MODIS Data for Monitoring Gypsy Moth Defoliation
    
    

32. December 2007 - San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    A Cluster Analysis Approach to Comparing Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data and Global Climate Model (GCM) Results
    
    

33. March 2008 – Norfolk, VA
    18th Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting
    A Cluster Analysis Approach to Comparing Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data and Global Climate Model (GCM) Results Winner of the First Place People’s Choice Award at the 18th ARM Science Team Meeting
    
    

34. April 2008 – Portland, OR
    American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) 2008 Annual Conference
    The Generation and Initial Application of a 250-Meter Conterminous United States Vegetation Phenological Database from MODIS Data
    
    

35. April 2008 – Boston, MA
    American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting
    Agroecoregionalization Using Multivariate Geographic Clustering and Associations with Patterns of Regional Yield Stability
    
    

36. July 2008 – Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
    International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software (iEMSs 2008)
    Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering (MSTC) as a Data Mining Tool for Environmental Applications.
    
    

37. December 2008 - San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    A New National MODIS-Derived Phenology Dataset Every 16 Days, 2002 Through 2006
    
    

38. January 2009 – Annapolis, MD
    USDA Interagency Research Forum on Invasive Species
    A New National MODIS-Derived Phenology Dataset Every 16 Days, 2002 Through 2006
    
    

39. May 2009 – Blacksburg, VA
    30th Southern Tree Improvement Conference
    Assessing the Potential Genetic Impacts of Climate Change to North American Forest Tree Species
    
    

40. May 2009 – Snowshoe, WV
    Ecology and Management of High-Elevation Forests of the Central and Southern Appalachian Mountains
    Predicting Climate Change Extirpation Risk for Central and Southern Appalachian Forest Tree Species
    
    

41. June 2009 – Missoula, MT
    MODIS Fourth Global Vegetation Workshop
    A New National MODIS-Derived Phenology Dataset Every 16 Days, 2002 Through 2006
    
    

42. November 2009 – Asheville, NC
    19th Annual Southern Appalachians Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
    Toward a National Early Warning System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Canopy Phenology
    
    

43. November 2009 – Asheville, NC
    19th Annual Southern Appalachians Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
    North American Forest Trees, Climate Change, and Genetic Peril: Range Modeling in Action.
    
    

44. November 2009 – Asheville, NC
    19th Annual Southern Appalachians Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
    Relationships Between Fire Frequency and Leaf Phenology in the Southern Appalachians
    
    

45. December 2009 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    Toward a National Early Warning System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Land Surface Phenology
    
    

46. December 2009 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    Monitoring 2009 Forest Disturbance Across the Conterminous United States, Based on Near-Real Time and Historical MODIS 250 Meter NDVI Products
    
    

47. January 2010 – Albuquerque, NM
    2010 Forest Health Monitoring Workgroup Meeting
    Monitoring 2009 Forest Disturbance Across the Conterminous United States, Based on Near-Real Time and Historical MODIS 250 Meter NDVI Products
    
    

48. January 2010 – Annapolis, MD
    USDA Interagency Research Forum on Invasive Species
    Monitoring 2009 Forest Disturbance Across the Conterminous United States, Based on Near-Real Time and Historical MODIS 250 Meter NDVI Products
    
    

49. June 2010 – Boulder, CO
    International Symposium on Generalization and Data Integration (GDI 2010, USGS funded)
    Practical Solutions for Integrated Data Analysis
    
    

50. July 2010 – Providence, RI
    Botany 2010
    Population-Level Assessment of Climate Change Genetic Risk in North American Forest Trees
    
    

51. August 2010 – Asheville, NC
    5th Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Symposium
    The Role of Climate Change as it Relates to the Spread of HWA and Fate of Eastern Hemlock
    
    

52. October 2010 – Milwaukee, WI
    Sixth Annual Continental Dialogue on Non-Native Forest Insects and Diseases
    An Early Warning System for Forest Threats in the United States
    
    

53. November 2010 – Gatlinburg, TN
    Southern Appalachians Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
    Effects of Urban Climate on Land Surface Phenology
    
    

54. November 2010 – Gatlinburg, TN
    Southern Appalachians Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
    Distributing Phenology Data – The National Phenology Dataset Explorer.
    
    

55. December 2010 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    Toward a National Early Warning System for Forest Disturbances Using Remotely Sensed Land-Surface Phenology.
    
    

56. December 2010 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    Forests and Phenology: Designing the Early Warning System to Understand Forest Change.
    
    

57. December 2010 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    Use of Current 2010 Forest Disturbance Monitoring Products for the Conterminous United States in Aiding a National Forest Threat Early Warning System.
    
    

58. December 2010 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    Geospatiotemporal Data Mining of Remotely Sensed Phenology for Unsupervised Forest Threat Detection.
    
    

59. January 2011 – Raleigh, NC
    Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources Seminar, NC State University
    Adapt, Move, or Die: Spatial Assessments of Forest Tree Genetic Degradation Risk Due to Climate Change.
    
    

60. April 2011 – Portland, OR
    26th Annual Symposium of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (US-IALE)
    Detection of Forest Threats via Unsupervised Geospatiotemporal Data Mining of Remotely Sensed Phenology Data.
    
    

61. August 2011 – Oak Ridge, TN
    Oak Ridge Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) Seminar
    Data Mining in Earth System Sciences.
    
    

62. November 2011 – Asheville, NC
    21st Annual Southern Appalachians Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB) Conference
    Forest Tree Species Range Shifts Under Two Alternative Climate Change Forecasts.
    
    

63. November 2011 – Asheville, NC
    21st Annual Southern Appalachians Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB) Conference
    Broad-Scale Mapping of Eastern Hemlock Decline in the Southern Appalachians Using Vegetative Phenology.
    
    

64. November 2011 – Asheville, NC
    21st Annual Southern Appalachians Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB) Conference
    Analysis of Phenological Signatures in Remote Sensing Data in the Southern Appalachians.
    
    

65. November 2011 – Asheville, NC
    21st Annual Southern Appalachians Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB) Conference
    Measuring Ecological Resilience Using Land Surface Phenology.
    
    

66. November 2011 – Asheville, NC
    21st Annual Southern Appalachians Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB) Conference
    The Tornado Outbreak of April 11, 2011 Recorded by the USDA Forest Service’s “Forest Change Assessment Viewer”.
    
    

67. November 2011 – Asheville, NC
    21st Annual Southern Appalachians Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB) Conference
    The U.S. Forest Change Assessment Viewer: Providing data access and up-to-date rapid assessment of forest disturbances.
    
    

68. December 2011 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    A Statistical Methodology for Detecting and Monitoring Change in Forest Ecosystems Using Remotely Sensed Imagery.
    
    

69. December 2011 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    Contribution of Near Real Time MODIS-Based Forest Disturbance Detection Products to a National Forest Threat Early Warning System.
    
    

70. December 2011 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    An Early Warning System for Identification and Monitoring of Disturbances to Forest Ecosystems.
    
    

71. April 2012 – Tucson, AZ
    2012 Forest Health Monitoring Work Group Meeting
    Spatial Assessments of Forest Tree Genetic Degradation Risk from Climate Change (SO-EM-09-01).
    
    

72. April 2012 – Tucson, AZ
    2012 Forest Health Monitoring Work Group Meeting
    Example 2011 Forest Disturbance Detections Using MODIS Satellite Data Products Resident to the US Forest Service ForWarn System. (winner of the 2012 Forest Health Monitoring “Best Graphics Award”
    
    

73. April 2012 – Newport, RI
    25th Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
    Using Land Surface Phenology as the Basis for a National Early Warning System for Forest Disturbances.
    
    

74. April 2012 – Newport, RI
    25th Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
    A Coarse-Filter Approach for Monitoring Landscape Resiliency.
    
    

75. April 2012 – Newport, RI
    25th Annual U.S. International Association of Landscape Ecology Meeting
    A Data Mining Methodology for Detecting Change in Forest Ecosystems Using Remotely Sensed Imagery.
    
    

76. June 2012 – Champaign-Urbana, IL
    Computational Methods in Water Resources XIX International Conference
    Assessment of Ecohydrological Impacts Under Climate Change Scenarios from CMIP5.
    
    

77. July 2012 – San Diego, CA
    ESRI International Users Conference
    The Tornado Outbreak of April 11, 2011 Recorded by the USDA Forest Service’s “Forest Change Assessment Viewer”. (Won “Best Communication Product” Award, 1^st Place)
    
    

78. September 2012 – Corvallis, OR
    ForestSat 2012
    Contribution of National Near-Real Time MODIS Forest % Maximum NDVI Change Products to the U.S. ForWarn System.
    
    

79. September 2012 – Milwaukee, WI
    Phenology 2012
    Using Land Surface Phenology for National Mapping of the Occurrence and Health of Evergreen and Deciduous Forests.
    
    

80. October 2012 – Asheville, NC
    American Chestnut Summit, The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF)
    Tools for Factoring Climate Change into American Chestnut Restoration.
    
    

81. November 2012 – Asheville, NC
    Southern Appalachians Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
    Using Land Surface Phenology for National Mapping of the Occurrence and Health of Evergreen and Deciduous Forests.
    
    

82. November 2012 – Asheville, NC
    Southern Appalachians Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
    The Effects of Climate Variation on the Timing of Spring Greenup: Linking Satellite Data with Ground-Based Observations.
    
    

83. November 2012 – Asheville, NC
    Southern Appalachians Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB)
    Mapping Former Hemlock Distribution through Mortality and Evergreen Decline Assessments for the Southern Appalachians.
    
    

84. December 2012 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    Long-Term Post-Wildfire Monitoring of Phenology and Recovery Using a MODIS Time Series.
    
    

85. December 2012 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    Role of MODIS Vegetation Phenology Products in the ForWarn System for Monitoring of Forest Disturbances in the Conterminous United States.
    
    

86. December 2012 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    Imputation of Continuous Tree Suitability over the Continental United States from Sparse Measurements Using Associative Clustering.
    
    

87. December 2012 – San Francisco, CA
    American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
    ForWarn: A Cross-Cutting Forest Resource Management and Decision Support System Providing the Capacity to Identify and Track Forest Disturbances Nationally.
    
    

88. February 2013 - Raleigh, NC
    North Carolina Geographic Information Systems (NC-GIS) Meeting
    Forest Structure and Bird Nesting Habitat Derived from LiDAR Data
    
    

89. February 2013 - Raleigh, NC
    North Carolina Geographic Information Systems (NC-GIS) Meeting
    Reengineering WebGIS: An OpenLayers Case Study
    
    

90. February 2013 - Raleigh, NC
    North Carolina Geographic Information Systems (NC-GIS) Meeting
    Geospatial Tools for Science Delivery and Supporting Forest Management Decisions
    
    

91. February 2013 - Oak Ridge, TN
    Oak Ridge National Laboratory Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate Advisory Board Meeting
    Large Scale Climate Data Analytics
    
    

92. March 2013 - Gatlinburg, TN
    Great Smoky Mountains National Park Science Colloquium
    The Great Smoky Mountains Spring: Predicting the Effects of a Changing Climate
    
    

93. April 2013 - Austin, TX
    US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
    Imputation of Continuous Tree Suitability Over the Continental United States from Sparse Measurements
    
    

94. April 2013 - Austin, TX
    US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
    Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Delineation of Ecoclimatic Regions for Evaluating Sampling Network Sites in Turkey
    
    

95. April 2013 – Austin, TX
    US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
    Mapping Hemlock Decline in the Southern Appalachians Using High and Moderate Resolution Imagery
    
    

96. May 2013 – Asheville, NC
    ORNL Visit to Southern Research Station
    Ecoregion Uniqueness, or This is How the Cookie Crumbles
    
    

97. May 2013 – Redlands, CA
    ESRI Forestry GIS Conference, ESRI Headquarters
    Long-Term Post-Wildfire Monitoring of Phenology and Recovery Using a MODIS Time Series
    
    

98. July 2013 – Redlands, CA
    ESRI International User Conference, US Forest Service Map Gallery
    Long-Term Post-Wildfire Monitoring of Phenology and Recovery Using a MODIS Time Series
    
    

99. July 2013 – Boulder, CO
    The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Next-Generation Climate Data Products Workshop
    Data Mining for Climate Change Model Intercomparison and Sampling Domain Representativeness, and Threat Detection for Forest Health
    
    

100. August 2013 – Minneapolis, MN
     98^th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America
     Imputation of Continuous Tree Suitability over the Continental United States from Sparse Measurements
     
     

101. August 2013 – Minneapolis, MN
     98^th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America
     Representativeness-Based Sampling Network Design for the Arctic
     
     

102. December 2013 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Global Tree Range Shifts Under Forecasts from Two Alternative GCMs Using Two Future Scenarios
     
     

103. December 2013 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     A Framework for Predicting Post-Wildfire Trajectories with Desired Conditions Using NDVI Time Series (photo here)
     
     

104. December 2013 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Monitoring Regional Forest Disturbances across the US with Near Real Time MODIS NDVI Products included the ForWarn Forest Threat Early Warning System)
     
     

105. December 2013 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Integrating Statistical and Expert Knowledge to Develop Phenoregions for the Continental United States (photos here and here)
     
     

106. December 2013 – Athens, GA
     9^th Southern Forestry and Natural Resource Management GIS Conference (SOFOR GIS)
     ForWarn: Forest Change Detection and Monitoring Every 8 Days
     
     

107. January 2014 – Oak Ridge, TN
     Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont
     ForWarn: Using Satellite Imagery to Track Forest Disturbances
     
     

108. May 2014 – Potomac, MD
     U.S. Department of Energy Joint Terrestrial Ecosystem Science and Subsurface Biogeochemistry Research Principal Investigator Meeting, Bolger Center
     Representativeness-Based Sampling Network Design and Scaling Strategies for Measurements in Arctic and Tropical Ecosystems
     
     

109. May 2014 – Anchorage, AK
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Utility and Behavior of National Phenoregions for Characterization of Vegetation, Habitat and Seasonal Changes
     
     

110. May 2014 – Anchorage, AK
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     A Diagnostic and Predictive Tool for Landscape Fire Regimes
     
     

111. May 2014 – Anchorage, AK
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Potential for Expanding the Near Real Time ForWarn Regional Forest Monitoring System to Include Alaska
     
     

112. May 2014 – Anchorage, AK
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Potential of Pest and Host Phenological Data in the Attribution of Regional Forest Disturbance Detection Maps According to Causal Agent
     
     

113. May 2014 – Anchorage, AK
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Representativeness-Based Sampling Network Design for the Arctic
     
     

114. May 2014 – Oak Ridge, TN
     Computer Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin Visit to ORNL
     Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) Earth System Modeling (ESM) Theme
     
     

115. June 2014 – Oak Ridge, TN
     South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Visit to ORNL
     Earth System Modeling (ESM) Theme and Projects
     
     

116. October 2014 – Salt Lake City, UT
     IUFRO World Congress and 2014 Society of American Foresters National Convention
     Global Tree Range Shifts Under Forecasts from Two Alternative GCMs Using Two Future Scenarios
     
     

117. November 2014 – Paris, France
     Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), IEEE VIS
     Visual Reconciliation of Alternative Similarity Spaces in Climate Modeling.
     
     

118. December 2014 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Version 5 of ForeCASTS: Forecasts of Climate-Associated Shifts in Tree Species.
     
     

119. December 2014 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Detecting and Tracking Shifts in National Vegetation Composition, Including Donors and Recipients, Across the MODIS Era.
     
     

120. December 2014 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering: A Framework for Integrating Disparate Data to Understand Network Representativeness and Scaling Up Sparse Ecosystem Measurements.
     
     

121. December 2014 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     MODIS NDVI Change Detection Techniques and Products Used in the Near Real-Time ForWarn System for Detecting, Monitoring and Analyzing Regional Forest Disturbances.
     
     

122. December 2014 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     A Global Classification of Contemporary Fire Regimes.
     
     

123. December 2014 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Landscape Characterization and Representativeness Analysis for Understanding Sampling Network Coverage.
     
     

124. December 2014 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Data Mining Approach for Evaluating Vegetation Dynamics in Earth System Models (ESMs) Using Satellite Remote Sensing Products.
     
     

125. February 2015 –Biloxi, MS (virtual)
     Southern Group of State Foresters (SGSF) GIS Task Force Annual Meeting
     ForWarn Development Update.
     
     

126. March 2015 – Gatlinburg, TN
     Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) Science Colloquium
     ForWarn and Decadal Trends in Forest Health.
     
     

127. April 2015 – USGS Headquarters, Reston, VA
     Department of Defense Unclassified LiDAR Standards Group, hosted by USGS
     LiDAR Aggregation for Forest Structure: Promise and Issues.
     
     

128. April 2015 – Asheville, NC
     Blue Ridge Parkway Research and Science Symposium
     The Use of Phenological Completion Milestones for Determining Day-of-Year of Start of Greenup and Start of Senescence.
     
     

129. May 2015 – Morganton, NC
     Blue Ridge Fire Learning Network
     ForWarn: Satellite-Based Monitoring of Seasonal, Successional and Event Fuels for Fire Planning.
     
     

130. July 2015 – Portland, OR
     9^th International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) World Congress
     Detecting and Tracking Shifts in National Vegetation Composition Across the MODIS Era.
     
     

131. July 2015 – Portland, OR
     9^th International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE) World Congress
     Scalable Algorithms for Analysis of Large GeoSpatioTemporal Data Sets and Applications to Landscape Ecology.
     
     

132. August 2015 – Oak Ridge, TN
     Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Climate Change Science Institute (CCSI) Seminar Series
     Mapping Vegetation Canopy Structure and Distribution for the Tennessee Side of Great Smoky Mountains National Park using LiDAR.
     
     

133. August 2015 – Oak Ridge, TN
     Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Summer Intern Program
     Mapping Vegetation Canopy Structure and Distribution for the Tennessee Side of Great Smoky Mountains National Park using LiDAR.
     
     

134. November 2015 – San Antonio, TX
     6^th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Association for Fire Ecology
     High Frequency Monitoring of Fire Regimes and Ecological Resilience Across the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
     
     

135. November 2015 – San Antonio, TX
     6th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Association for Fire Ecology
     High Frequency Monitoring of Fire Regimes and Ecological Resilience across the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.
     
     

136. November 2015 – Atlantic City, NJ
     10^th International Workshop on Spatial and Spatiotemporal Data Mining
     Characterization and Classification of Vegetation Canopy Structure and Distribution within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park using LiDAR.
     
     

137. December 2015 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Mapping Vegetation Canopy Structure and Distribution for Great Smoky Mountains National Park using LiDAR.
     
     

138. February 2016 – Montreat, NC
     North Carolina Hemlock Wooly Adelgid Biological Control Forum
     Evergreen Forest Decline in the Southern Appalachians and Neighboring Regions
     
     

139. February 2016 – Montreat, NC
     North Carolina Hemlock Wooly Adelgid Biological Control Forum
     Mapping Hemlock Mortality and Its Effects Using Decadal Trends in Forest Health
     
     

140. March 2016 – Gatlinburg, TN
     2016 Great Smoky Mountains National Park Science Colloquium
     Classification of Vegetation Canopy Structure and Distribution of Forest Vertical Structure Ecoregions within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park using LiDAR
     
     

141. April 2016 – Asheville, NC
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Distinguishing Ephemeral from Seasonally Persistent Forest Disturbances using NDVI Time Series. (hosted, organized and conducted this meeting)
     
     

142. May 2016 – Raleigh, NC
     Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) North America
     Empirical Mining of Large Data Sets Helps to Solve Practical Large-Scale Forest Management and Monitoring Problems. (video of talk)
     
     

143. August 2016 – Montpellier, France
     Fifth International EcoSummit 2016: Ecological Sustainability Engineering Change
     Climate-Induced Changes of the Floristic Environmental Stage: A Vulnerability Framework to Inform Conservation Planning.
     
     

144. December 2016 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Integrating Statistical and Expert Knowledge to Develop Phenoregions for the Continental United States.
     
     

145. December 2016 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     A Polar Approach for Defining a Spatially-Explicit “Phenological Year” and Quantifying the Degree and Date of Seasonality for Existing Vegetation Across the United States.
     
     

146. December 2016 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Understanding the Representativeness of FLUXNET for Upscaling Carbon Flux from Eddy Covariance Measurements.
     
     

147. December 2016 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Scalable Algorithms for Clustering Large Geospatiotemporal Data Sets on Many-core Architectures.
     
     

148. March 2017 – Gatlinburg, TN
     Great Smoky Mountains National Park Science Colloquium
     Tracking Spring and Fall Phenology across Great Smoky Gradients: A Sixteen-Year Record of Climate and Vegetation Change.
     
     

149. April 2017 – Baltimore, MD
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Allowing Existing Vegetation to Empirically Define Its Own “Phenological Year” to Quantify the Degree and Timing of Seasonality Across the United States.
     
     

150. April 2017 – Baltimore, MD
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Forest Structural Complexity of the Southern Appalachians Revealed by LiDAR Classification.
     
     

151. April 2017 – Baltimore, MD
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     The Phenologies of a Great Smoky Mountain.
     
     

152. April 2017 – Baltimore, MD
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Understanding the Representativeness of FLUXNET for Upscaling Carbon Flux from Eddy Covariance Measurements.
     
     

153. April 2017 – Baltimore, MD
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     The Extreme Fall 2016 Wildfire Season of the Southern Appalachians.
     
     

154. May 2017 – Chiba, Japan
     Japanese Geoscience Union (JpGU)-American Geophysical Union (AGU) Joint Meeting 2017
     Integrating Statistical and Expert Knowledge to Develop Phenoregions for the Conterminous United States.
     
     

155. May 2017 – Hiawassee, NC
     Blue Ridge Fire Learning Network Annual Meeting
     The Extreme Fall 2016 Wildfire Season of the Southern Appalachians.
     
     

156. June 2017 – San Juan, Puerto Rico
     Society of Wetland Scientists' 2017 Annual Meeting
     Monitoring the Cumulative Effects of Wildfire Across Woody Wetlands of the Coastal Plain with MODIS Time Series.
     
     

157. July 2017 – Flagstaff, AZ
     National Silvicultural Workshop
     Project CAPTURE: A U.S. National Prioritization Framework for Tree Species Threatened by Climate Change.
     
     

158. August 2017 – Portland, OR
     102^nd Annual Ecological Society of America (ESA) Meeting
     pKluster: A Tool for Scalable k-Means Analysis of Geo-Spatio-Temporal Data Sets
     
     

159. September 2017 – Honolulu, HI
     19^th International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Cluster Computing 2017: Convergence of Big Data and High-Performance Computing
     Parallel Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Clustering of Large Ecological Datasets on Hybrid Supercomputers
     
     

160. November 2017 – Orlando, FL
     7^th Association for Fire Ecology (AFE) Fire Congress
     Distinguishing Understory from Overstory Fire Impacts in Eastern Hardwood Forests Using Phenologically-Filtered 10m Sentinel Satellite Imagery.
     (attendance not permitted by Forest Service Meetings Management)
     
     

161. November 2017 – Orlando, FL
     7^th Association for Fire Ecology (AFE) Fire Congress
     Tracking Shifts in Productivity in Response to Recurrent Drought and Fire Regime Change for the Okefenokee.
     (attendance not permitted by Forest Service Meetings Management)
     
     

162. December 2017 – New Orleans, LA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Using Linear and Non-Linear Temporal Adjustments to Align Multiple Phenology Curves, Making Vegetation Status and Health Directly Comparable.
     
     

163. December 2017 – New Orleans, LA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Spatiotemporal Analysis of Corn Phenoregions in the Continental United States.
     
     

164. December 2017 – New Orleans, LA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Phenological Unmixing of Sequential Wildfire and Windstorm Effects in the Southern Appalachians.
     
     

165. December 2017 – New Orleans, LA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Understanding Patterns of Vegetation Structure and Distribution Across Great Smoky Mountains National Park Using LiDAR and Meteorological Data.
     
     

166. January 2018 – Raleigh, NC (virtual)
     Eastern Seed Zone Forum
     Provisional Seed Zones: Indispensable Tools for Forest Conservation Assessment.
     
     

167. March 2018 – Gatlinburg, TN
     Great Smoky Mountains National Park Science Colloquium
     A Comparison of Landscape Impacts from the Great Smoky’s May 2017 Windstorm and Nov. 2016 Wildfire Caused by Recurrent Mountain Waves.
     
     

168. April 2018 – Chicago, IL
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Scalable GeoSpatioTemporal Clustering on Novel Fine-Grained Parallel Computer Architectures.
     
     

169. April 2018 – Chicago, IL
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Cross-Seasonal Assessments of Appalachian Forest Compositional Response After Fire Using Sentinel 2 Imagery.
     
     

170. April 2018 – Chicago, IL
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Hurricane Impacts to Puerto Rico’s Forests: The Importance of Topography and Chance.
     
     

171. July 2018 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
     North American Congress for Conservation Biology
     Prioritizing U.S. Tree Species for Gene Conservation in the Face of Climate Change and Other Threats.
     
     

172. August 2018 -– Knoxville, TN
     Free and Open Source Software for GIS Users (FOSS4G)
     Canopy Structure and Distribution of Vegetation in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
     
     

173. August 2018 – Asheville, NC
     North Carolina ArcInfo Users’ Group (NCAUG) Fall Conference
     ForWarn II, a National Satellite-Based Forest Disturbance Detection System.
     
     

174. September 2018 – Jena, Germany
     10^th International Conference on Ecological Informatics, Friedrich Schiller University.
     Representativeness-Based Sampling Network Design for the Arctic.
     
     

175. October 2018 – Bloomington, IN
     AmeriFlux Principal Investigators (PI) Meeting
     Understanding the Representativeness of FLUXNET for Upscaling Carbon Fluxes.
     
     

176. November 2018 – Resorts World Sentosa (RWS), Singapore
     Eighth Workshop on Data Mining in Earth System Science (DMESS 2018)
     Parallel k-means Clustering of Geospatial Data Sets Using Manycore CPU Architectures.
     
     

177. December 2018 – Washington, DC
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Empirical Characterization of Fire Regimes Across the Globe.
     
     

178. December 2018 – Washington, DC
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Estimating Crop Acreage Over Regional Scales Using Remote Sensing and Climate Data.
     
     

179. December 2018 – Washington, DC
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Improving Forest Management Through Early Detection of Bark Beetle Outbreaks in the Southeastern United States Using Earth Observations.
     
     

180. December 2018 – Washington, DC
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Parallel Clustering of Large Earth Science Datasets on the Summit Supercomputer.
     
     

181. December 2018 – Washington, DC
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Parallel K-means Clustering of Geo-Spatio-Temporal Data Sets Using Many-Core CPU Architectures.
     
     

182. December 2018 – Washington, DC
     15^th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit and 5^th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference
     Mountain Wave-Induced Wildfire Behavior: The Deadly Eastern Tennessee Fires of 2016.
     
     

183. March 2019 – Gatlinburg, TN
     Great Smoky Mountains National Park Science Colloquium
     A Comparison of Landscape Impacts from the Great Smoky’s May 2017 Windstorm and Nov. 2016 Wildfire Caused by Recurrent Mountain Waves.
     
     

184. March 2019 – Gatlinburg, TN
     Great Smoky Mountains National Park Science Colloquium
     Enhancing the Progression Chronology of the Chimney Tops 2 Fire with Radar and Meteorological Station Data
     
     

185. March 2019 – Gatlinburg, TN
     Great Smoky Mountains National Park Science Colloquium
     Understanding Patterns of Vegetation Structure and Distribution Across Great Smoky Mountains National Park Using LiDAR and Meteorological Data.
     
     

186. April 2019 – Ft. Collins, CO
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Using Non-Linear Temporal Rubber-Sheeting to Directly Compare Phenological Profiles and to Interpolate Missing NDVI Values.
     
     

187. April 2019 – Ft. Collins, CO
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Scalable Tools for Analysis of Massive Remote –Sensing Datasets on High-Performance Computers.
     
     

188. April 2019 – Ft. Collins, CO
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Using the Concept of Ecoregions for Large Area Crop Mapping.
     
     

189. April 2019 – Ft. Collins, CO
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Predominant Factors Controlling and Predicting Phenological Seasonality.
     
     

190. April 2019 – Ft. Collins, CO
     US-International Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE) Annual Meeting
     Contextualizing Appalachian fire with Sentinels of Seasonal Phenology.
     
     

191. October 2019 – Curitiba, Brazil
     XXV IUFRO Congress
     Identifying the United States Tree Species and Populations Most Vulnerable to Genetic Degradation.
     
     

192. November 2019 – San Antonio, TX
     American Society of Agronomy/Crop Science Society of America/Soil Science Society of America Meeting
     Defining Agroecoregions for the Long-Term Agroecosystem Research Network.
     
     

193. November 2019 – Knoxville, TN
     Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Stakeholders Science Meeting
     Tracking Immediate and Secondary Hurricane Impacts to Forests with 10m Sentinel 2: Cross-Seasonal Mapping Clarifies Pre-Storm Risks and Nuances Interpretations.
     
     

194. December 2019 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Using Temporal “Rubber-Sheeting” to Match an Annual Phenological Profile to a Reference Profile for Direct comparison of Vegetation Status and Health.
     
     

195. December 2019 – San Francisco, CA
     American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
     Mapping Arctic Vegetation using Hyperspectral Airborne Remote Sensing Data.