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Department of Forest Science


Richard H. Waring
Richard H. Waring

Distinguished Professor, Emeritus
Physiological Ecology, Landscape Level Ecosystems Analysis

326 Richardson Hall
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR 97331
  • Office: 326 Richardson Hall
  • Phone: 541-737-6087
  • Fax: 541-737-1393
  • B.S., 1957, University of Minnesota, St.Paul
  • M.S., 1959, University of Minnesota, St. Paul
  • Ph.D., 1963, University of California, Berkeley
Forest Growth Modeling Workshop (6 hrs. arranged)
Using physiologically-base process models to address issues of environmental change on forest productivity and biodiversity across landscapes and regions.
  1. NOAA “Influence of climate variability on the productivity and distribution of ponderosa pine ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest”.
  2. NASA “Assessing potential and actual forest productivity across southwestern Oregon with a simplified physiologically--based model driven with remotely sensed data and monthly weather records”.
  3. NACASI “Using biophysical factors to predict regional biodiversity potential in the Pacific and Inland Northwest”.
  4. SNCC “Do Changes in Soil Nutrient Balance Contribute to the Outbreak of Swiss Needle-Cast?”
  1. Coops, N.C. and R.H. Waring. 2001 Assessing forest growth across southwestern Oregon under a range of current and future global change scenarios using a process model, 3-PG. Global Change Biology 7:15-29.
  2. Coops, N.C., and R.H. Waring. 2001. The use of multiscale remote sensing imagery to derive regional estimates of forest growth capacity using 3-PGS. Remote Sensing of Environment 75:324-334.
  3. Law, B.E., R.H. Waring, P.M. Anthoni, and J.D. Aber. 2000. Measurements of gross and net productivity and water vapor exchange of a Pinus ponderosa ecosystem, and an evaluation of two generalized models. Global Change Biology 6:155-168.
  4. Waring, R.H. and S.W. Running. 1998. Forest Ecosystems: Analysis at Multiple Scales. Academic Press, Inc., San Diego, California. 370 pp.