1. Harvesting Information to Sustain our Forests:
Creating an
Adaptive Management Portal
NSF DIGITAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAM
Advisory Board Meeting
08 November 2000
Advisory Board Meeting  Portland, Oregon  08 November 2000

2. Advisory Board Members
Co-Inventor of the Topic Map Model
Michel Biezunski
President, IUFRO, Oxford Forestry Institute, Dept of Plant Sciences
Jeff Burley
Martin Goebel
Sustainable Northwest
MD, Asst. Professor, Division of Medical Informatics and Outcomes Research, OHSU
Paul Gorman
Executive Director, IMFN Secretariat
Fred Johnson
Chief, Office of Technical Support, Forest Resources, USDI Fish and Wildlife Service
Monty Knudsen
Communications Director, USDA Forest Service, PNW Research Station
Cynthia L. Miner
Science Advisor, USDI, National Park Service
Regina Rochefort
Assistant Director, Ecosystem Mgt., USDA, Forest Service
Steve Solem
Staff Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Mark Whiting
Forest/environmental expertise
Computer science expertise
Advisory Board Meeting  Portland, Oregon  08 November 2000

3. Principal Team Members
Tim Tolle
Regional Coordinator for AMA, US Forest Service
Eric Landis
Forest Information System Specialist, Consultant
Craig Palmer
Natural Resources Monitoring Expert, UNLV
Fred Phillips
Professor and Head, Mgt. of Science and Tech., OGI
Patty Toccalino
Asst. Prof., Environmental Science and Eng., OGI
Lois Delcambre
Professor, Computer Science and Eng., OGI
David Maier
Professor, Computer Science and Eng., OGI
Shawn Bowers
PhD Student, Computer Science and Eng., OGI
Mat Weaver
PhD Student, Computer Science and Eng., OGI
Forest/env. expertise
Computer science expertise
Advisory Board Meeting  Portland, Oregon  08 November 2000

4. Advisory Board Meeting  Portland, Oregon  08 November 2000
Project Factoids
Duration: 3 years
Budget: $1.5 million
Participants:
Adaptive Management Areas (Tim Tolle)
Oregon Graduate Institute (Lois Delcambre, David Maier, Patty Toccalino, Fred Phillips),
Natural Resource Information Specialist (Eric Landis)
Federal Agencies: Forest Service (Northwest Region), PNW Research Station, Bureau of Land Management, National Science Foundation, Fish and Wildlife Service
Location: Western Washington, Oregon and California
Advisory Board Meeting  Portland, Oregon  08 November 2000

5. Advisory Board Meeting  Portland, Oregon  08 November 2000
Project Structure
This depicts our plan of work. Nevertheless, if we can visualize thee arrows as not being unidirectional, we can get it. I’ll ask the lead person of each of these steps to introduce him or her self and briefly describe the step. Then, the remainder of the “team” will introduce themselves.
I will start with step one. As is our style, we are not doing any of these steps alone or even with just part of the team. We’ve learned from adaptive management that involvement is the best way to transmit information, especially understanding that information.
Advisory Board Meeting  Portland, Oregon  08 November 2000