Curriculum Vitae for Andrew T. Hudak

Contact Information

USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 1221 South Main Street, Moscow, ID 83843

Telephone: 208-882-3802 (h), 208-883-2327 (o); Fax: 208-883-2318; Email: ahudak@fs.fed.us

Education

Ph.D., 1999, University of Colorado, Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology

B.S., 1990, University of Minnesota, Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior

A.A., 1987, Itasca Community College (Grand Rapids, MN), Liberal Arts

Professional Experience

Research Forester, USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID, 09/01-present

Research Ecologist, USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, 04/99-04/01

Graduate Research Fellow, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 09/95-04/99

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of Environmental, Population and Organismic Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 09/94-05/95

W.M. Keck Foundation Fellow, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, 08/93-07/94

Secondary School Science Teacher, U.S. Peace Corps, Malawi, Africa, 07/90-07/92

Undergraduate Biology Laboratory Teaching Assistant, General College, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 09/89-06/90

Publications

Hudak, A.T. and B.H. Brockett. A methodology for mapping fire scars in a southern African savanna from Landsat imagery. International Journal of Remote Sensing, in review.

Hudak, A.T., D.H.K. Fairbanks and B.H. Brockett. Trends in fire patterns in a southern African savanna under alternative land use practices. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, in press.

Hudak, A.T., C.A. Wessman and T.R. Seastedt. Woody overstory effects on soil carbon and nitrogen pools in South African savanna. Austral Ecology, in press.

Hudak, A.T., M.A. Lefsky, W.B. Cohen and M. Berterretche. (2002) Integration of lidar and Landsat ETM+ data for estimating and mapping forest canopy height. Remote Sensing of Environment 82(2/3): 397-416.

Hudak, A.T. and C.A. Wessman. (2001) Textural analysis of high resolution imagery to quantify bush encroachment in Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa, 1955-1996. International Journal of Remote Sensing 22(14): 2731-2740.

Byers, B.A, R.N Cunliffe and A.T Hudak. (2001) Linking the conservation of culture and nature: a case study of sacred forests in Zimbabwe. Human Ecology 29(2): 187-218.

Hudak, A.T. and C.A. Wessman. (2000) Deforestation in Mwanza District, Malawi, Africa from 1981 to 1992 as determined from Landsat MSS imagery. Applied Geography 20(2): 155-175.

Hudak, A.T. (1999) Rangeland mismanagement in South Africa: failure to apply ecological knowledge. Human Ecology 27(1): 55-78.

Hudak, A.T. and C.A. Wessman. (1998) Textural analysis of historical aerial photography to characterize woody plant encroachment in South African savanna. Remote Sensing of Environment 66(3): 317-330.

Braswell, B.H., D.S. Schimel, J.L. Privette, B. Moore III, W.J. Emery, E.W. Sulzman and A.T. Hudak. (1996) Extracting ecological and biophysical information from AVHRR optical data: an integrated algorithm based on inverse modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research 101 (D18): 23,335-23,348.

Proceedings

Hudak, A.T. and B.H. Brockett. Rangeland fire scar mapping using Landsat imagery. Proceedings of the Ninth Biennial Forest Service Remote Sensing Applications Conference, in press.

Hudak, A.T., M.A. Lefsky, W.B. Cohen and M. Berterretche. (2001) Integration of lidar and Landsat ETM+ data. In: International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol 34, Part 3/W4, pp. 95-103.

Hudak, A.T. (2000) Quantifying bush encroachment in Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, Cape Town, South Africa, CD-ROM.

Lefsky, M.A., W.B. Cohen, A.T. Hudak, S.A. Acker and J. Ohmann. (1999) Integration of lidar, Landsat ETM+ and forest inventory data for regional forest mapping. In: International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol 32, Part 3/W14, pp. 119-126.

Hudak, A.T., B.H. Brockett and C.A. Wessman. (1998) Fire scar mapping in a southern African savanna. Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Seattle, WA, CD-ROM.

Hudak, A.T. and C.A. Wessman. (1997) Textural analysis of aerial photography to characterize large scale land cover change. Proceedings of the ESRI Users Conference, San Diego, CA. https://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc97/proc97/to650/pap643/p643.htm.

Selected Conference Presentations

Hudak, A.T., B.H. Brockett and D.H.K. Fairbanks. Fire history (1972-2001) of Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa. The Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 19-23 Mar 2002.

Hudak, A.T., M.A. Lefsky, W.B. Cohen and M. Berterretche. Geostatistical integration of lidar and Landsat ETM+ data.� USFS Geospatial 2001 Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, 16-19 Apr 2001.

Hudak, A.T. and C.A. Wessman. Effects of woody plant encroachment on soil carbon sequestration in South African savanna. Ecological Society of America Conference, Spokane, WA, 8-12 Aug 1999.

Hudak, A.T. and C.A. Wessman. A textural index for characterizing heterogeneous savanna canopy structure from high resolution imagery. Ecological Society of America Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2-6 Aug 1998.

Hudak, A., M. Gregory, J. Ohmann, M. Moeur, M. Lefsky and W. Cohen. Comparison of two models for mapping tree structural and species diversity variables in western Oregon. U.S. Symposium of the International Association of Landscape Ecology, Tempe, AZ, 25-29 Apr 2001.

Hudak, A., M. Gregory, J. Ohmann, M. Moeur, M. Lefsky and W. Cohen. Predictive mapping of tree species basal areas from forest inventory and environmental data: a comparison of two models. Ecological Society of America Conference, Snowbird, UT, 6-10 Aug 2000.

Hudak, A.T. and B.H. Brockett. Fire scar mapping in Madikwe Game Reserve. Grassland Society of Southern Africa Conference, Cedara, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, 25-29 Jan 1998.

Hudak, A.T. and C.A. Wessman. Historical quantification of bush encroachment due to chronic overgrazing in South Africa savannas. GIS in the Rockies Conference, Denver, CO, 15-17 Sep 1997.

Selected Invited Talks

�Waveform lidar for forest research and management.� USGS Remote Sensing Workshop, Red Lion Hotel, Port Angeles, WA, 2 Oct 2002.

�Advances in vegetation management anticipated in the next decade.� USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station, Moscow, ID, 28 Jun 2001.

�Beyond the pretty pictures: some practical applications of remote sensing for characterizing land cover and land cover change.� Department of Geography and Center for Institutional, Population, and Environmental Change, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 18 Jan 2001.

�Fire scar mapping in Madikwe Game Reserve.� Presented at workshop entitled, "Land cover and land use change projects in Pilanesberg National Park and Madikwe Game Reserve." Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa, 5 Apr 2000.

�Using image texture to characterize bush density and quantify bush encroachment.� Presented at workshop entitled, "Land cover and land use change projects in Pilanesberg National Park and Madikwe Game Reserve." Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa, 5 Apr 2000.

�Ecological causes and effects of bush encroachment in South African savanna.� Presented at workshop entitled, "Using remote sensing technologies to monitor management impacts on vegetation structure in Madikwe Game Reserve." Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa, 4 Apr 2000.

�Using spectral mixture analysis to estimate vegetation fraction.� Presented at workshop entitled, "Vegetation structural characterization: tree cover, height and biomass." International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, Cape Town, South Africa, 26 Mar 2000.

�Effects of overgrazing and fire suppression on woody overstory structure and species diversity in South African savanna.� Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Lecture Series, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 7 Nov 1998.

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