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Jeffrey Gove

Title: Research Forester
Unit: Climate, Fire, and Carbon Cycle Sciences
Address: Northern Research Station
271 Mast Road
Durham, NH 03824
Phone: 603-868-7667
E-mail: Contact Jeffrey Gove

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Education

A.A.S. Forest Technology. May 1975, Thompson School of Applied Science, University of New Hampshire.
B.S. Forestry. December 1977, University of New Hampshire.
M.S. Forest Mensuration. May 1980. University of New Hampshire.
M.A. Statistics. December 1992, The Pennsylvania State University.
Ph.D. Forest Biometrics. August 1989, The Pennsylvania State University.

Civic & Professional Affiliations

Member: Society of American Foresters, American Statistical Association.

Current Research

Weighted distributions for forest management and research. Weighted distributions provide a theory that brings together many of the stand attributes used in forest management. This theory, while powerful, is straightforward to apply in the context of forest management using statistical software, or packages such as Balance. These methods make it simpler to get compatible estimates from probability-based stand models.
Optimal methods for developing uneven-aged stand management guidelines. Based on models of forest growth, these methods can be used to maximize numerous different objective functions for management; examples include financial objectives, and total biomass. When both the underlying growth and financial models are closely applicable to a given location, the resulting management guides will be optimal with respect to the objective chosen, and provide the basis for better management.
New methods for sampling down coarse woody debris in forest ecosystems. We continue to develop new methods for the estimation of down coarse woody material; of special interest are the new methods based on probability proportional to size sampling, such as perpendicular distance sampling and its variants, and point relascope sampling. Both field and simulation testing are components of this effort.
Data assimilation methods in forestry. Data assimilation brings models and sampling together in an optimal (for linear systems) or suboptimal (for nonlinear systems) manner through the use of sequential estimation methods. These probabilistically-based methods are very powerful, and show great potential for use in both forest research and management.

Future Research

Problems in uneven-age forest management, especially optimal stand diameter distribution models.
Investigating new methods, and testing and exploring new adaptations of existing methods for sampling forest ecosystems, especially components of down woody material.
Data assimilation methods for use in forest management and research.

Featured Publications

Gove, Jeffrey H.; Van Deusen, Paul C. 2011. On fixed-area plot sampling for downed coarse woody debris. Forestry. 84(2): 109-117.
Van Deusen, Paul C.; Gove, Jeffery H. 2011. Sampling coarse woody debris along spoked transects. Forestry. 84(2): 93-98.
Ståhl, Göran; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Williams, Michael S.; Ducey, Mark J. 2010. Critical length sampling: a method to estimate the volume of downed coarse woody debris. European Journal of Forest Research. 129: 993-1000.
Gove, Jeffrey H. 2009. Propagating probability distributions of stand variables using sequential Monte Carlo methods. Forestry. 82(4): 403-418.
Fast, Andrew J.; Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Leak, William B. 2008. Dating tree mortality using log decay in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry. 25(3): 154-157.

Additional Online Publications

Valentine, Harry T.; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Ducey, Mark J.; Gregoire, Timothy G.; Williams, Michael S. 2008. Estimating the carbon in coarse woody debris with perpendicular distance sampling. Chapter 6. In: Hoover, Coeli M., ed. Field measurements for forest carbon monitoring: A landscape-scale approach. New York, NY: Springer Science + Business Media: 73-87.
Leak, William B.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2008. Growth of northern hardwoods in New England: a 25-year update. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry. 25(2): 103-105.
Gove, Jeffrey H.; Ducey, Mark J.; Leak, William B.; Zhang, Lianjun. 2008. Rotated sigmoid structures in managed uneven-aged northern hardwood stands: a look at the Burr Type III distribution. Forestry. 161-176.
Ducey, Mark J.; Williams, Michael S.; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Valentine, Harry T. 2008. Simultaneous unbiased estimates of multiple downed wood attributes in perpendicular distance sampling. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 38: 2044-2051.
Gove, J.H.; Hollinger, D.Y. 2006. Application of a dual unscented Kalman filter for simultaneous state and parameter estimation in problems of surface-atmosphere exchange. Journal of Geophysical Research. 111. D08S07, doi:10.1029/2005JD006021. 21 p.
Valentine, Harry T.; Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeffery H.; Lanz, Adrian; Affleck, David L.R. 2006. Corrections for Cluster-Plot Slop. Forest Science 52(1):55-66
Zhang, Lianjun; Bi, Huiquan; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Heath, Linda S. 2005. A comparison of alternative methods for estimating the self-thinning boundary line. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 35: 1507-1514.
Proctor, Patrick; Heath, Linda S.; Van Deusen, Paul C.; Gove, Jeffery H.; Smith, James E. 2005. COLE: A Web-based Tool for Interfacing with Forest Inventory Data. In: McRoberts, Ronald E.; Reams, Gregory A.; Van Deusen, Paul C.; McWilliams, William H.; Cieszewski, Chris J., eds. Proceedings of the fourth annual forest inventory and analysis symposium; Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-252. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station. 167-172
Kenning, Robert S.; Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeff H.; Brissette, John C. 2005. Field Efficiency and Bias of Methods for Snag and Cavity Tree Inventory. In: Kenefic, Laura S.; Twery, Mark J., eds. Changing Forests - Challenging Times: Proceedings of the New England Society of American Foresters 85th Winter Meeting; 2005 March 16-18; Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-325. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station: 57
Kenning, Robert S.; Ducey, Mark J.; Brissette, John C.; Gove, Jeffery H. 2005. Field efficiency and bias of snag inventory methods. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35:2900-2910
Innes, J. C.; Ducey, M. J.; Gove, J. H.; Leak, W. B.; Barrett, J. P. 2005. Size-density metrics, leaf area, and productivity in eastern white pine. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35:2469-2478
Proctor, Patrick; Van Deusen, Paul C.; Heath, Linda S.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2005. The open-source movement: an introduction for forestry professionals. In: Proceedings of the fifth annual forest inventory and analysis symposium; 2003 November 18-20; New Orleans, LA. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-69. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. 222p.
Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Valentine, Harry T. 2004. A walkthrough solution to the boundary overlap problem. Forest Science. 50(4): 427-435.
Jordan, G. J.; Ducey, M. J.; Gove, J. H. 2004. Comparing line-intersect, fixed-area, and point relascope sampling for dead and downed coarse woody material in a managed northern hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 34: 1766-1775.
Gove, Jeffrey H. 2004. Structural stocking guides: a new look at an old friend. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 34(5): 1044-1056.
Brissette, John C.; Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2003. A field test of point relascope sampling of down coarse woody material in managed stands in the Acadian Forest. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. 130(2): 79-88.
Gove, Jeffrey H. 2003. Estimation and applications of size-based distributions in forestry. In: Reality, models and parameter estimation--the forestry scenario; 2002 June 2-5; Sesimbra, Portugal. [Place of publication unknown]: CABI: 201-212.
Williams, Michael S.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2003. Perpendicular distance sampling: an alternative method for sampling downed coarse woody debris. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 33: 1564-1579
Ducey, M. J.; Jordan, G. J.; Gove, J. H.; Valentine, H. T. 2002. A practical modification of horizontal line sampling for snag and cavity tree inventory. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32:1217-1224
Stahl, Goran; Ringvall, Anna; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Ducey, Mark J. 2002. Correction for slope in point and transect relascope sampling of downed coarse woody debris. Forest Science. 48(1): 85-92.
Scott, Charles T.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2002. Forest Inventory. In: El-Shaaraw, A.H.; Piegorsch, W.W., eds. Encyclopedia of environmetrics, vol. 2. [Place of publication unknown]: Wiley and Sons: 814-820.
Gove, Jeffrey H.; Ducey, Mark J.; Valentine, Harry T. 2002. Multistage point relascope and randomized branch sampling for downed coarse woody debris estimation. Forest Ecology and Mangement. 155: 153-162.
Zhang, Lianjun; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Liu, Chuangmin; Leak, William B. 2001. A finite mixture of two Weibull distributions for modeling the diameter distributions of rotated-sigmoid, uneven-aged stands. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 31: 1654-1659.
Valentine, Harry T.; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Gregoire, Timothy G. 2001. Monte Carlo approaches to sampling forested tracts with lines or points. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 31: 1410-1424.
Gove, Jeffrey H.; Valentine, Harry T.; Holmes, Michael J. 2000. A field test of cut-off importance sampling for bole volume. In: Hansen, Mark; Burk, Tom, eds. Integrated tools for natural resources inventories in the 21st century. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-212. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station. 372-376.
Ducey, Mark J.; Gove, Jeffrey H. 2000. Downed wood as seedbed: measurement and management guidelines. In: McManus, Katherine A.; Shields, Kathleen S.; Souto, Dennis R., eds. Proceedings: Symposium on sustainable management of hemlock ecosystems in eastern North America. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-267. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 34-42.
Gove, Jeffrey H.; Linder, Ernst; Tzilkowski, Walter M. 1995. Some results on the combined removal and signs-of-activities estimators for sampling closed animal populations.. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-199. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 34 p.

Other Publications by Jeffrey Gove *

Fox, Andrew; Williams, Mathew; Richardson, Andrew D.; Cameron, David; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Quaife, Tristan; Ricciuto, Daniel; Reichstein, Markus; Tomelleri, Enrico; Trudinger, Cathy M.; Van Wijk, Mark T. 2009. The REFLEX project: Comparing different algorithms and implementations for the inversion of a terrestrial ecosystem model against eddy covariance data. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 149: 1597-1615

*Due to policy or copyright restrictions, we are unable to provide full-text versions of these publications. Please check with your local library or Contact Jeffrey Gove to inquire about reprints.

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