A Band of Biometricians
A Band of Biometricians #1: Small Area Estimation
September 15, 2025
Welcome to A Band of Biometricians, a professional forestry podcast where we explore the latest topics in forest biometrics, inventory, and growth & yield. In this first episode, I am joined by Dr. John Paul McTague and Dr. Corey Green to discuss the 2025 joint NEMO and SOMENS conference and to dive deep into the topic of Small Area Estimation
A Band of Biometricians #2: The U.S. National Scale Volume and Biomass estimation system
September 03, 2026
On this episode of A Band of Biometricians (a series from The Forester’s Forecast), Micky Allen sits down with four of the people behind the USDA Forest Service’s National-Scale Volume and Biomass (NSVB) system — Aaron Weiskittel (University of Maine), John Coulston (formerly USFS Southern Research Station, now NCASI), Jim Westfall (USFS Northern Research Station, lead author), and Phil Radtke (Virginia Tech).
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