Bob Rummer
Question Manager for TIMBR-3 Current Position: Project Leader, Forest Operations and Engineering Research Unit, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 520 Devall Drive, Auburn, Alabama 36849, phone: (334) 826-8700, email: rrummer@fs.fed.us
Education
Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, Auburn University, 1988.
MS Forest Products (Logging and Engineering), Univ. of Idaho, 1982.
BS Forest Management, University of Idaho, 1980.
Professional Experience
1998-current Project Leader, Engineering Research Unit USDA Forest Service, Auburn, AL.
1992-1998 Research Engineer, Engineering Research Unit
1990-1992 Sr. Consulting Engineer, Auburn Engineers Inc.
1987-1990 Research Engineer, Engineering Research Unit
1983-1987 Grad. Co-op Research Engineer, Engineering Research Unit
Professional Affiliations
Vice-chairman, Machine Technical Committee, Society of Automotive Engineers
Project Leader, Forest Equipment Standards, Int’l Organization for Standardization
Deputy Chairman, Work Environment, Int’l Union of Forestry Research Organizations
Recent Publications
Taylor, Steve; Rummer, B.; Yoo, K.H.; Welch, R.A.; Thompson, J.D. 1999. What we know and don’t know about water quality at stream crossings. Journal of Forestry 97(8): 12-17.
Wilhoit, John; Rummer, Bob. 1999. Application of small-scale systems: evaluation of alternatives. Paper 99-5056. American Society of Agricultural Engineers. 19 p.
Rummer, Bob. 1998. The effect of shelterwood prescriptions on forest operations productivity. Paper 98-7017. American Society of Agricultural Engineers. 9 p.
Rummer, Bob, Baumgras, John; McNeel, Joe. 1997. Forest operations for ecosystem management. In: Role of wood production in ecosystem management. Proceedings of the IUFRO All Div. 5 Conference. FPL-GTR-100. Forest Products Laboratory, USDA Forest Service: 46-52.
Seixas, Fernando; Stokes, Bryce; Rummer, Bob; McDonald, Tim. 1996. Harvesting soil impacts for selected silvicultural prescriptions. In: Proceedings of the 20th World Congress IUFRO.
Rummer, Bob; Stokes, Bryce; Lockaby, Graeme. 1996. Sedimentation associated with forest road surfacing in a bottomland hardwood ecosystem. Forest Ecology and Management 90: 195-200.
Stokes, Bryce J.; Rummer, Robert B.; McDonald, Timothy P.; Seixas, Fernando. 1994. Biological and mechanical interactions--what do we know? In: 1994 Interactive Workshop and Seminar, FORSITRISK, Soil, Tree, Machine Interactions. 1994 July 4-8; Feldalfing, Germany. [Publisher unknown]: 1-17.
