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Tom Brandeis
Tom Brandeis 

Employee Information

Name: Tom Brandeis 
Title: Research Forester
Unit: Forest Inventory and Analysis (4801)
Phone: 865-862-2030
Fax: 865-862-0262 Unit Fax
E-Mail: tjbrandeis@fs.fed.us

Location Information

Mailing
Address:
USDA-Forest Service
FIA HQ

4700 Old Kingston Pike
Knoxville, TN 37919
Shipping
Address:
(Same as Above)
   
Location
Phone:
865-862-2000

Research Information

Education:

BS, University of Notre Dame, 1985 (Biology)
MS, University of Illinois, 1988 (Forestry)
Ph.D., Oregon State University, 1999 (Forest Science)

Current Research:

Adapt and refine forest inventory and monitoring techniques for tropical islands and fragmented tropical landscapes; assess forest resources and health in Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands; improve wood volume, biomass and carbon estimates for Caribbean forests; describe long term structural and species composition changes of tropical forest fragments in highly disturbed landscapes.

Collaborative Research:

Describe tropical forest structure using inventory and remotely-sensed data; inventory urban forest resources in the San Juan Bay Estuary watershed; assess forest resources in Puerto Rico's northern karst belt.

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