Focus on Forestry, College of Forestry, Oregon State University

Ward Carson Retires

Ward Carson, photogrammetry specialist, mechanical engineer, and associate professor in the Department of Forest Resources, retired after nine years on the College faculty. Carson received his doctorate from the University of Washington in 1973. He spent 10 years with the USDA Forest Service Pacific

Ward Carson and Badege Bishaw
Ward Carson, right, with colleague Badege Bishaw.

Northwest Research Station, where he conducted much of the pioneering research on computer-based analytical descriptions of logging cable system loads and geometry. He was associated with much of the early research on balloon logging. He joined the Forest Resources faculty of the University of Washington in 1978. He left in 1980 to spend 12 years in Norway, where he developed a photogrammetric mapping instrument and started a business to manufacture and market it. He returned to the United States and joined the OSU faculty in 1992. Carson has taught and conducted research in aerial photography, remote sensing, and digital

mapping, and he headed the College’s Forest Photo-grammetry Research Laboratory. “In September 2001 I joined the Forest Service PNW Research Station, Forest Systems Engineering group at the University of Washington,” he says. “I’ll be working on a project that’ll merge the metric information available in LIDAR [Light Detection and Ranging System, developed recently to collect topographic descriptions in forested areas], and airborne digital imagery for the purpose of forest mensuration. The project is expected to last two to four years.”

Publications of note

Here is a selected list of reprints available from the Forestry Communications Group. You may order them by calling (541) 737-4271, or order from the web at www.cof.orst.edu/cof/pubs/home

Acda, MN, JJ Morrell, and KL Levien. 2001. Supercritical fluid impregnation of selected wood species with tebuconazole. Wood Science and Technology 35: 127-136.

Birchler, TM, R Rose, and DL Haase. 2001. Fall fertilization with N and K: Effects on Douglas-Fir seedling quality and performance. Western Journal of Applied Forestry 16(2): 71-79.

Brandeis, TJ, M Newton, and EC Cole. 2001. Underplanted

conifer seedlings survival and growth in thinned Douglas-fir stands. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 31: 302-312

Dodds, KJ, DW Ross, GE Daterman. 2000. A comparison of traps and trap trees for capturing Douglas-fir beetle, Dendroctonus pseudotsugae (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia 97: 33-38.

Hansen, E, and R Smith. Stopping the slide- market share shifts in structural floors. Case Study Series 3, Forest Research Laboratory, Oregon State University, Corvallis.

Keyes, CR. 2000. Natural regeneration of ponderosa pine: Pest management strategies for seed predators. The Forestry Chronicle 76(4): 623-626.

Montgomery, CA. 2001. The future of housing in the United States: An econometric model and long-term predictions for the 2000 RPA Timber Assessment. Research Paper PNW-RP-531, USDA, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.

Wing, MG, and R Johnson. 2001. Quantifying forest visibility with spatial data. Environmental Management 27(3): 411-420.

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