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Steven Norman

Adjunct Faculty

Contact Information:

Office: Research Ecologist US Forest Service Redwood Sciences Lab 1700 Bayview Drive, Arcata, CA 95521
Phone: 825-2919
E-mail: stevenorman@fs.fed.us
Web Site: http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/topics/fire_science/craft

Personal Statement:

I came to Humboldt County in 2001 after finishing graduate school at Penn State. My graduate research addressed changes in vegetation that resulted from decades of fire exclusion, climate variation and livestock grazing in Lassen National Forest. Prior to graduate school, I was in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica where I developed a fascination for the tropics that is unabated. I currently work at the Forest Service's Redwood Sciences Lab up hill of the HSU campus. There, my work integrates the social and environmental factors that surround forest management, a skill nurtured by my education in geography.

Specialty Area:
Biogeography, Climatology, Cultural ecology, Applied geography

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Education/degrees:
BA, Mansfield University of PA
MA Western Illinois University
PhD Penn State University

Research Interests:
Integrating social and environmental values and uncertainty in natural resource management
Redwood fire ecology
Coastal dune vegetation
Forest restoration

Publications:

S. P. Norman and A. H. Taylor. 2005. Pine forest expansion along a forest-meadow ecotone in northeastern California, USA. Forest Ecology and Management. 215: 51-68.

S. P. Norman. 2004. Book review of: Fire and climatic change in temperate ecosystems of the Western Americas by T. T. Veblen, W. L. Baker, G. Montenegro and T. W. Swetnam, editors, for the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 94:232-233.

S. P. Norman and A. H. Taylor. 2003. Tropical and north Pacific teleconnections influence fire regimes in pine-dominated forests of northeastern California, U.S.A. Journal of Biogeography. 30:1081-1092.

 

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