Fire Regimes of the Central Appalachian Mountains

Personnel

Over the course of this three-year project, we've been fortunate to have many dedicated individuals participate, either in the planning, in the field work, or in the laboratory, to ensure the success of this project. Here's a full listing of individuals involved with this project:

University of Tennessee	Texas A&M University	USDA Forest Service
Henri Grissino-Mayer Georgina Wight David Mann Alison Miller Evan Larson Daniel Lewis Saskia van de Gevel Chris Underwood Beth Atchley Michelle Pfeffer Nathaniel Morgan Anna Compton Ashley Heaton Preston Roberts Lisa LaForest Pamela Dalal Jessica Brodgen Wayne Clatterbuck Phillip White	Charles Lafon Serena Aldrich Adam Krustchinsky Paul Rindfleisch Alexis Green Jennifer Hoss John Aldrich Kirk Stueve Lauren Spencer Jeremiah Wagstaff James Dalton	Steven Croy Elaine Kennedy Sutherland Beth Buchanan Jesse Overcash Carol Hardy Croy George Annis Danny Wright Butch Shaw Herbie Huffman Kenneth Hickman Jason Hattersley Zack Pennington Mitch Kerr
	The Nature Conservancy
	Judy Dunscomb
	Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries	West Virginia University
	Nelson Lafon	Stockton Maxwell

Principal Investigators


Dr. Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee. Specializes in the analysis of fire regimes from dendroecological data and climate/wildfire relationships. Loves the fact that his primary research technique involves using a chain saw. Shown here at the Mill Mountain C site, George Washington National Forest. Note the precision wedge cut from a living tree without felling or killing the tree.		Dr. Charles W. Lafon, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University. Specializes in analyzing the successional dynamics and disturbance history of eastern mixed-hardwood/pine forests. Conducts simulation modeling of stand dynamics, and is also a trained dendroecologist. Shown here at the Mill Mountain A site, George Washington National Forest. Such eroded remnants are vital for our project, and can be preserved for later analyses.

Ph.D. Graduate Students


Serena Aldrich, Department of Geography, Texas A&M University. Rapidly adapted to the strenuous hiking and nasty conditions of our field work, many field trips after having driven 20 hours from Texas. Her research on this project concentrates on sites in the George Washington National Forest. Shown here at the Mill Mountain C site.		Georgina Wight, Department of Geography, University of Tennessee. She has personally participated in about 12 field trips for this project, many organized and led by her. Her research concentrates on the Jefferson National Forest, shown here with a spectacular sample from the North Mountain A site.

Field Crews and Volunteers

The project could not have been successful without the immense help we've received from numerous individuals in the 15 or so expeditions we've mounted to Virginia to collect samples over the last three years. Below are shown just a few of the students and Forest Service personnel who participated on these many, very challenging field trips.


May 2003 Field Crew. Left to right, Anna Compton, Henri Grissino-Mayer, Beth Atchley, Georgina Wight, Charles Lafon, Nate Morgan, and Adam Krustchinsky. Shown at the Newcastle Forest Service Workcenter where we stayed quite often, sleeping in the upper floor of the building to the left.		October 2003 Field Crew. Shown on the killer Reddish Knob B site. Left to right: Paul Rindfleisch, Evan Larson, Georgina Wight, Serena Aldrich, Saskia van de Gevel, Daniel Lewis, and Charles Lafon, taken by Henri Grissino-Mayer.

August 2005 Field Crew. Left to right, top: Jennifer Hoss, Georgina Wight, Stockton Maxwell, Charles Lafon, Henri Grissino-Mayer. Bottom: Lisa Wilkins, Michelle Pfeffer, Serena Aldrich. Shown on Peter's Mountain, owned by the TNC.		October 2005. Left to right, Michelle Pfeffer, Jessica Brogden, and Georgina Wight, at the Little Walker C site.





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