Precision Forestry Cooperative

People

Prof. L. Monika Moskal, PFC Director (2013 – 2025), is a Professor of Remote Sensing and Earth Observation at the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences (SEFS), within the College of the Environment. Dr. Moskal’s office is in Bloedel 382, she can be reached at (206) 225-1510 or lmmoskal@uw.edu. To learn more about Prof. Moskal in a less formal format watch her recent SEFS Seminars Talk.

Dr. Meghan Halabisky is a remote sensing research scientist with the PFC/RSGAL. Her research focus in on wetlands and she is the co-lead on the NASA funded CMS Teal Carbon Project within the PFC.

Dr. Kathleen Wolf  research social scientist, some of her work includes Green Cities and Health project.

Jonathan Kane is a remote sensing specialist, who work across the labs within the PFC.

Maureen Duane is a Research Coordinator, with a background in forestry and remote sensing, who provides project management and stakeholder communications support. Maureen works on the NASA Carbon Monitoring System funded projects Teal Carbon (Dr. Moskal and Dr. Halabisky).

The PFC is comprised of four research laboratories and one research group:

  • Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis Laboratory (RSGAL), lead by Dr. L. Monika Moskal, strives to understand the fine details of spatiotemporal resolution multidimensional ecosystem processes & functions,  through the application of innovative geospatial techniques and datasets.
  • Forest Resilience Laboratory, lead by Dr. Van Kane, works with Restoring Resilience at Multiple Scales (RRAMS) using LiDAR to guide burned landscape recovery and restoration.
  • Fire Landscapes Adaptive Management & Ecology (FLAME) Laboratory led by Dr. Susan Prichard which focused on landscape fire ecology and management research with an emphasis on fire ecology and forest management.
  • Spatial Optimization Laboratory (SOL), lead by Dr. Sandor Toth, develops quantitative decision support tools to aid forest and natural resource management. SOL is particularly interested in building and testing mathematical models that can quantify and visualize the resource trade-offs and production possibilities between conflicting management objectives.
  • Natural Resource Spatial Informatics Group (NRSIG), lead by Luke Rogers, provides technologies and expertise for analyzing forestry and agricultural issues, specializing in large spatial scales and big data. NRSIG’s goal is to enable landscape, state, and regional scale analyses while simultaneously using the highest resolution data sets available.

Past PFC Directors

Past PFC Staff

  • Maureen Duane, Research Coordinator 2020-2025
  • Megan O’Shea  – retired 2019