2012 CREST Annual Report - Alabama A&M University

Annual Report: 1036600collection, and continue to provide logistical support, including maps of stands and information on the field research. Schweitzer is also working with partners from the USFS Northern Research Station and the University of Missouri to quantify product damage (timber) and recovery due to harvesting and repeated prescribed fires. Data compilation and analysis is on-going to document the stand structure composition and structural changes due to the treatments, with additional work to compute above ground carbon storage capacity and changes.Name: Soliman, KhairyWorked for more than 160 Hours:Contribution to Project:YesName: Tsegaye, TeferiWorked for more than 160 Hours:Contribution to Project:Dr. Tsegaye left AAMU for a position at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, KY.Name: Wagaw, MezemirWorked for more than 160 Hours:NoYesContribution to Project:Dr Wagaw is a assistant processor of hydrology and joined CFEA in 2010 with the renewal of the NSF CREST grant. His work build on land management and geospatial work done during the first cycle to integrate a new aspect to CFEA, hydrology. During the 2011/12 year Dr Wagaw had four site selection field trips to the BNF, and specified eight locations for the soil measurement in Oct. 2011 and Feb. 2012. Due to size and location of instrumentation permitting was required before installation (6 month process). The instrumentation of the sites will take place in July 2012. In this reporting year, Dr Wagaw started the mapping of the BNF on potential sediment load supply sites based on LiDAR and High Resolution infrared imageries. Pre-processed data from Southeast Regional Climate Center (in Chapel Hill, NC) records, and USGS river/stream flow gage historical measurements, USDA-NRCS SSURGO/STATSGO soil database.Name: Tazisong, IrenusWorked for more than 160 Hours:YesContribution to Project:Dr. Tazisong coordinates the Thrust II (Soils) project with responsibilities for progress reports, experimental design and project planning. He directs investigations on the biogeochemical nutrient cycling dynamics in disturbed managed ecosystem, and the soil microbial biodiversity studies to address component 1. Dr Tazisong supervises Shelley Baltar (a field and lab technician for the soil sub project) who was hired in June 2011. Shelley Baltar has mapped and taken GPS points of all the treatments. She has ordered most of the supplies needed for soil sampling and collection. She is also responsible for data entering into spread sheet, prepare molar solutions in the lab, operate and trouble shoot instruments, and assist graduate and undergraduate students working in the soil sub project. She has received training in forest safety from Allison Cochran, the Bankhead National Forest wildlife biologist. This training has prepared her to do her job effectively. Page 6 of 73