ABOUT US

James Grogan, Principal Investigator

James Grogan has studied natural populations of big-leaf mahogany in the Brazilian Amazon since 1995, first as a doctoral candidate at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (New Haven, CT, USA), and continuing through Post-doctoral and Research Associate programs. His work complements previous field studies of mahogany in Mexico, Belize, and Bolivia. He currently resides in west Massachusetts, USA.

R. Matthew Landis, Consulting Ecologist

Matthew Landis has investigated tree population dynamics and how to model them for nearly 20 years. He received his PhD in Ecology from Dartmouth and was a post-doc at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Currently he is a Research Scientist with ISciences, LLC (www.isciences.com) in Burlington VT and teaches at Middlebury College in the Department of Biology (website). He has worked on big-leaf mahogany since 2004.

Christopher Free, GIS Analyst / Modeling Specialist

Chris is a graduate of Middlebury College (’10) with a degree in Conservation Biology and a training in GIS science. Chris completed an undergraduate thesis working with Jimmy Grogan and Matt Landis to build a spatially explicit population growth model of big-leaf mahogany. The model has since been adapted into the growth and yield model presented on this website. Chris is now responsible for managing and developing both the spatial and non-spatial versions of the model and for performing the GIS analysis necessary to our research.

QUICK LINKS

Download the Growth & Yield Model here.

Download the Growth & Yield Model User Manual here.

Download maps of the field site here.

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