Richard A. Birdsey
USDA Forest Service
11 Campus Blvd. Ste. 200
Newtown Square, PA 19073
Tel: 610-557-4091; Fax: 610-557-4095
Education
1971
B.S. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Anthropology
1975
M.S. State University of New York (Syracuse) – World Forestry
1989
Ph.D. State University of New York (Syracuse) – Forest Management
Research Interests
Quantitative methods for large-scale ecosystem and watershed inventories, methods to estimate national carbon budgets from forest inventory data, estimates of historical U.S. forest carbon sources and sinks, accounting rules and guidelines for U.S. forests, forest management strategies to increase carbon sequestration, assessments of U.S. forest resources, impacts of multiple stresses on forests, adaptation to climate change.
Employment History
1991 – Present
Program Manager, Global Change Research, USDA Forest Service
1989-1991
Staff Scientist, Forest Inventory and Analysis, USDA Forest Service
1979-1989
Research Forester, Forest Inventory and Analysis, USDA Forest Service
1976-1979
Forester, U.S. Peace Corps (Ecuador)
Publications
Alexeyev, V.; Birdsey, R.; Stakanov, V.; Korotkov, I. 1995. Carbon in vegetation of Russian forests: methods to estimate storage and geographical distribution. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 82:271-282.
Birdsey, R.A. 1996. Carbon storage for major forest types and regions in the conterminous United States. In: Forests and Global Change Volume Two - Forest Management Opportunities. ed. by R. Neil Sampson and Dwight Hair. Washington, DC: American Forests. Pp. 1-25 plus appendices.
Birdsey, Richard A. 2003. Current and historical trends in use, management, and disturbance of U.S. forestlands. In: Kimble, J.M. et al. (Eds.), The Potential of U.S. forest soils to sequester carbon and mitigate the greenhouse effect. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. Pp. 15-34.
Birdsey, Richard A. 2004. Data gaps for monitoring forest carbon in the United States: an inventory perspective. In: Mickler, Robert A., eds. Environmental Management. 33(Supplement 1): S1-S8.
Birdsey, R.A. and L.S. Heath. 2001. Forest inventory data, models, and assumptions for monitoring carbon flux. In: SSSA Special Publication no. 57, Soil Carbon Sequestration and the Greenhouse Effect. Madison, WI: Soil Science Society of America. Pp 125-135.
Birdsey, R. A.; A. J. Plantinga; L. S. Heath. 1993. Past and prospective carbon storage in United States forests. Forest Ecology and Management. 58:33-39.
Birdsey, Richard A.; Heath, L.S. 1995. Carbon changes in U.S. forests. In: Productivity of America's Forests and Climate Change ed. by Linda A. Joyce. Ft. Collins, CO: USDA Forest Service, Gen. Tech. Report RM-271. 70p.
Casperson, John P.; Pacala, Stephen W.; Jenkins, Jennifer C.; Hurtt, George C.; Moorcraft, Paul R.; Birdsey, Richard A. 2000. Contributions of land-use history to carbon accumulation in U.S. forests. Science 290: 1148-1151.
Jenkins, J.; Birdsey, R; Pan, Y. 2000. Biomass and NPP estimation for the mid-Atlantic region (USA) using plot-level forest inventory data. Ecological Applications 11(4): 1174-1193.
Jenkins, Jennifer C.; Chojnacky, David C.; Heath, Linda S.; Birdsey, Richard A. 2003. National-scale biomass estimators for United States tree species. Forest Science 49(1): 12-35.
Mickler, Robert A.; Birdsey, Richard A.; Hom, John. (Eds.) 2000. Responses of Northern U.S. forests to environmental change. Ecological Studies 139. Springer-Verlag, New York. 578 p.
Pacala, S.W., G.C. Hurtt, D.Baker, P.Peylin, R.A. Houghton, R.A. Birdsey, et al. 2001. Consistent land- and atmosphere-based U.S. carbon sink estimates. 2001. Science 292: 2316-2320.
Pan, Yude; Hom, John; Birdsey, Richard; McCullough, Kevin. 2004. Impacts of rising nitrogen deposition on N exports from forests to surface waters in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Environmental Management. 33: S120-S131.
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