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. Mark E. Swanson Room 177 Johnson Hall Washington State University Pullman WA 99164-6410 509-335-1349 Assistant Professor, Landscape Ecology & Silviculture

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Dr. Mark E. Swanson is a forest ecosystem analyst in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at Washington State University . His research interests include developmental processes of natural forest stands, forest carbon, understory vegetation, and early-successional habitats . Dr. Swanson's current work centers on stand dynamics in maturation-phase Douglas-fir/western hemlock forest, modeling forest carbon in Nothofagus forests, and the ecological value of early-successional habitats.

Education:

Ph.D., Forest Ecosystem Analysis, University of Washington, 2007. Dissertation “Forest carbon in Nothofagus forests, Tierra del Fuego, Chile: Measurement, modeling, and management”

B.S., Forest Management, (minor in Conservation of Wildland Resources), University of Washington, 1999

Research Interests:

• Forest carbon at stand and landscape scales.
• Effects of thinning for creation of structural and compositional complexity.
• Landscape-scale change in forested landscapes.

Current Research:

1. Natural stand development in maturation-phase Douglas-fir/western hemlock forests.
2. Dynamics and maintenance of early-successional habitats in landscapes of the southern Cascades. Project in development.
3. Effects of thinning in mature stands of natural origin in Douglas-fir/western hemlock forests. Project in development.

Courses Taught:

• NATRS 305, Silviculture. Fall semester.
• NATRS 464/564, Landscape Ecology. Spring semester.

Representative Publications:

Franklin, Jerry F., and Mark E. Swanson. 2007. Forest landscape structure, degradation, and condition: Some commentary and fundamental principles. Chapter 12 (pp. 123-137) in: Lindenmayer, David and Richard Hobbs. 2007. Managing and designing landscapes for conservation: Moving from perspectives to principles. Malden , MA : Blackwell Publishing.

Franklin, Jerry F., and Mark E. Swanson. 2007. Forest landscape structure, degradation, and condition: Some commentary and fundamental principles. Chapter 12 (pp. 123-137) in: Lindenmayer, David and Richard Hobbs. 2007. Managing and designing landscapes for conservation: Moving from perspectives to principles. Malden , MA : Blackwell Publishing.

Swanson, Mark E. 2006. El manejo forestal ecológico en noroeste Norteamerica: una respuesta a un mundo en movimiento. Bosque Nativo (Revista de la Agrupación de Ingenieros por el Bosque Nativo).. Valdivia , Chile . (English title: Ecological forest management in northwestern North America : a response to a changing world.) No. 39: 3-9.

Swanson, Mark E. 2006. An ecological history of the Charles L. Pack Experimental Forest , Eatonville , Washington: Natural history, landscape ecology, and forest management. Paper contracted for the Center for Sustainable Forestry at Charles L. Pack Experimental Forest . Available online at: http://www.packforest.org/research/Pack_ecolhist.pdf

Swanson, Mark E. , David C. Shaw, and Tisha K. Marosi. 2006. Distribution of western hemlock dwarf mistletoe ( Arceuthobium tsugense [Rosendahl] G.N. Jones subsp. tsugense ) in mature and old-growth Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii [Mirb.] Franco) forests. Northwest Science 80(3): 207-217.

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