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Allen Banner, Northern Interior/Coast Regional Ecologist
(Smithers)
Allen's areas of responsibility include research in forest ecology, ecosystem
classification and interpretation, ecosystem function and response to management,
and ecosystem mapping. His current interests are the ecology and management
of coastal forests and wetland and riparian ecosystems, and ecosystem -
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Ray Coupé, Southern Interior Regional Ecologist
(Williams Lake)
Ray has worked in the Research Section since 1977 and has principally been involved in the development, extension and application of the biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification in the Cariboo-Chilcotin. Ray provides technical support to field staff through training and consultation in ecosystem identification and interpretation. He has a strong interest in plants and their ecology, has co-authored plant identification and plant indicator guides and maintains a regional herbarium representing plant taxa of the Cariboo-Chilcotin. Consulting areas: BEC implementation and interpretation; forest and grassland vegetation response to management practices, identification and management of rare plants and ecosystems; and ecosystem mapping. |
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Craig DeLong, Northern Interior Regional Ecologist (Prince
George)
Craig's areas of responsibility include forest ecology research, ecosystem
classification and interpretation, ecosystem mapping, and quality assurance
of site unit mapping. His current interests are natural disturbance dynamics
at multiple scales, natural stand dynamics and succession, natural disturbance
as a template for forest management, the ecology and management of mixedwood
forests and the application of remote sensing to ecosystem mapping. The
main goal of Craig's research is to maintain ecosystem integrity and function
while reducing the cost of forest management through a better understanding
of forest ecosystems. |
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Marvin Eng, Research Branch Landscape Ecologist (Victoria)
Marvin received his university education at the University of Calgary and
the University of Regina. He worked for 10 years as an environmental consultant
in Alberta before coming to British Columbia in 1989. He is currently a
Landscape Ecologist with the Research Branch of the BC Forest Service. During
his 16 years of public service his research interests have included wildlife
habitat supply modeling, ecological land classification, spatially explicit
timber supply modeling, decision support for land use planning and natural
disturbance dynamics and their effects on management decisions. |
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Dennis Lloyd, SIR Regional Ecologist (Kamloops)
Areas of Responsibility: Interpretation and training for BEC classification
and Biogeoclimatic and ecosystem mapping. Research activities also include;
vegetation and tree regeneration response to silvicultural practices in
the IDF and ESSF. Contribute to Regional protected area strategy with input
to LRMP’s and associated implementation committees. Co-founder and
director of the Grassland conservation council of BC with particular involvement
in grassland mapping and characterization, development of a range condition
monitoring protocol and for identifying priority grasslands for conservation.
Consulting activities include BEC classification related operational interpretations
including tree species selection, silvicultural practices, managing for
rare and endangers ecosystems and plants, the identification, distribution
and autoecology of vascular plants, management practices in NDT4 and locating
OGMAs. Contribute to PEM/TEM ecosystem mapping and reliability assessments. |
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Karen McKeown, Northern Interior Research Technician
(Smithers)
Karen is active in providing extension on ecology related topics to elementary
school students. She is currently developing educational kits on ethnobotany
and on seeds and dispersal mechanisms. Other responsibilities include maintaining
the regional herbarium, and providing technical assistance on the majority
of ecology projects. This includes collection and compilation of field data,
report editing, graphics production, and maintaining databases within the
ecology program. |
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Will MacKenzie Research Branch Ecologist (Smithers)
Will has 15 years experience as an ecologist in BC and the northern territories. Initially hired by the Research Branch in 1995 to create a province-wide classification of wetland and riparian ecosystems. Will has moved on to constructing a provincial alpine classification, and a seral classification of the SBS. Will manages the provincial ecological dataset and is actively building software tools for collection of field data and managment and maintainance the provincial classification, . His main interests are in botany, plant and wildlife ecology, and informatics. |
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Andy MacKinnon, Coast Regional Ecologist (Victoria/Nanaimo)
Andy's areas of responsibility include research in forest ecology and ecosystem-based
management (EBM). Responsible for biogeoclimatic ecosystem classification
(BEC) and mapping. Provides consultation and training in EBM and BEC. Serves
on provincial and national research committees. Current research interests
include natural disturbance, old-growth forests, non-timber forest products,
and native plants, fungi and lichens |
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Shirley Mah, Research Branch Interpretations Ecologist (Victoria)
Shirley's areas of responsibility include research in the development of ecologically-based management interpretations that include the long-term SIBEC project, and implementing their use at operational and strategic levels of forest management. Her current interests are ecosystem-site productivity relationships, tree species selection, relationship of ecosystems to people and management, and non-timber forest products.
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Del Meidinger, Research Scientist, Forest Ecology (Victoria).
Del has 30 years of experience as a plant ecologist in British Columbia, mostly developing the Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification (BEC) system and applying it to forest and range management. He has collected field data from ecosystems throughout all of BC, initiating his field sampling in the NE quadrat. In his role as provincial correlator, Del focuses on the vegetation classification of forests and woodlands -- developing the provincial classification that guides the BEC program. Del is also correlating BC forest vegetation with adjacent jurisdictions in Canada and U.S. Del has worked with others in development of ecosystem mapping methods. First, standardizing the use of traditional methods in Terrestrial Ecosystem Mapping (TEM); and then developing predictive techniques, e.g., EcoGen. He has also spearheaded the development of ecosystem map accuracy assessment methods. In addition, Del is an author and editor of Illustrated Flora of British Columbia. |
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John Parminter, Research Branch Disturbance Ecologist
(Victoria)
John is a Research Ecologist and has been based in Victoria since 1980.
His primary interests are natural disturbance regimes - especially fire
history; fire ecology and effects; ecosystem restoration; and the classification,
measurement, and management of Coarse Woody Debris. John is also interested
in forest history and is helping to coordinate publication of histories
of the provincial forest research and inventory programs. He remains slightly
perplexed by information technology but so far has managed to persevere. |
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Adrian Walton, Research Branch Landscape Ecologist (Victoria)
Adrian Walton, MNRES, received his university education at the University of Waterloo and the
University of Northern British Columbia. He worked for nine years as a GIS specialist working on projects
such as forest estate planning, forest visualization and wildlife habitat assessment.
He is currently a Landscape Modelling Biologist with the Research Branch of the BC Forest Service.
His current research projects include biogeoclimatic mapping, Bayesian networks (in particular their
application to predictive ecosystem mapping) and natural disturbance dynamics and their effects on management decisions. |
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