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Thomas B. Lynch
Professor


Office: 017 Ag Hall
Address: 008C Ag Hall
Stillwater, OK 74077
Phone: (405) 744-5447
Fax: (405) 744-3530
Email: tom.lynch@okstate.edu

Education
BS: Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. 1975, Forestry
MS: Purdue University, 1980, Statistics; Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ., 1977, Forestry
PhD: Purdue University, 1982, Forestry

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Teaching
FOR 2003 Forest Mensuration I
FOR 3002 Forest Mensuration II
FOR 3663 Forest Biometrics
FOR 3883 Aerial Photogrammetry and Information Systems
FOR 5000 Thesis And Research
FOR 5030 Advanced Forestry Problems

Research Interests:
Modeling growth and development of naturally-occurring shortleaf pine forests
Sampling and monitoring trees and shrubs in great plains riparian ecosystems
Evaluation of restoration of shortleaf pine - bluestem forest type (pre-settlement forest type)
Polyareal plot sampling and growth estimation from permanently established sample points
Distance sampling for forest inventory
Estimation of volume, product yield, weight, center of gravity and moment of inertia for individual tree-length
     stems and logs
Growth and development of intensively managed loblolly pine plantations

Honors and Awards

USDA Certificate of Appreciation for contributions to shortleaf pine growth and yield research, awarded
     July 28, 1993
USDA Certificate of Appreciation for contributions to the peer review process for Forest Science, awarded
     August 8, 2003
Certificate of Appreciation for service to the Society of American Foresters as Associate Editor for Forest
     Measurements of the Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 1996-2002, awarded July 30, 2002
Certified Forester No. 1141 (CF), Society of American Foresters, 2002, recertified 2005
Certified Toastmaster (CTM), Toastmasters International, 1991

 

Professional Memberships
Society of American Foresters, Certified Forester (CF)
Xi Sigma Pi
Gamma Sigma Delta
Phi Sigma Society
Fellowship of Christian Faculty and Staff
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, President, OSU Chapter 2005-2006
American Statistical Association
Associate Editor for Forest Science 2003-2006

Current Graduate Students
PhD
  Douglas J. Stevenson
MS
  Charles Sabatia
  Nabin Gyawali

Recent Publications (since 2000)

Blazier, M.A., Hennessey, T.C., Lynch, T.B., Wittwer, R.F. and M.E. Payton. 2004.  Productivity, crown architecture, and gas exchange of North Carolina and Oklahoma/Arkansas loblolly pine families growing on a droughty site in southeastern Oklahoma .  For. Ecol. and Manage. 194:83-94.

Huebschmann, M.M., Lynch, T.B., Lewis, D.K., Tilley, D.S., and J.M. Guldin.  2004.  A bid price equation for national forest timber sales in western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma .  South. Jour. Appl. For. 28(2):100-108

Lynch, T.B., Holley, A.G., and D.J. Stevenson.  2005.  A random parameter dbh-height model for cherrybark oak.  South. Jour. Appl. For. 29(1):22-26.

Lynch, T.B., and Wittwer, R.F.  2003.  n-Tree distance sampling for per-tree estimates with application to unequal-size cluster sampling of increment core data  Can. Jour. For. Res.  33(7):1189-1195.

Lynch, T.B., Nkouka, J., Huebschmann, M.M., and Guldin, J.M.  2003.  Maximum likelihood estimation for predicting the probability of obtaining variable shortleaf pine regeneration densities.  Forest Sci. 49(4):577-584.

Lynch, T.B.  2001.  Simultaneous estimation of volume, surface area, and forest product yield for tree stems with Monte Carlo integration.  Math. Modelling and Sci. Computing  13(3-4):190-203.

Lynch, T.B.  2006.  Variance reduction for sector sampling.  For. Sci.  52(3):251-261.

Lynch, T.B.  2006.  Horizontal line sampling for riparian forests without land area estimation.  For. Sci.  52( 2): 119-126.

Hennessey, T.C., Dougherty, P.M., Lynch, T.B., Wittwer, R.F., and E.M. Lorenzi.  2004.  Long-term growth and ecophysiological responses of a southeastern Oklahoma loblolly pine plantation to early rotation thinning.  For. Ecol. and Manage.  192(1):97-116.

Huebschmann, M.M., Gering, L.G., Lynch, T.B., Bitoki, O., and P.A. Murphy.  2000.  An individual-tree growth and yield prediction system for uneven-aged shortleaf pine stands.  South. Jour. Appl. For. 24(2):112-120.

Clark, S.L., Hallgren, S.W., Stahle, D.W. and T.B. Lynch.  2005.  Characteristics of the Keystone Ancient Forest Preserve, an old-growth forest in the Cross Timbers of Oklahoma, USA.  Natural Areas Jour. 25(2):165-175.

Blazier, M. A., Hennessey, T. C., Lynch, T.B. and R.F. Wittwer.  2002.  Comparison of branch biomass relationships for North Carolina and Oklahoma/Arkansas loblolly pine seed sources growing in southeastern Oklahoma.  For. Ecol. and Manage.  159:241-248

Valdez-Lazalde, J.R. and  T.B. Lynch.  2000.  Merchantable and total volume equations for thinned stands of Patula pine in Puebla, Mexico.  Agrociencia 34(6):747-758.


Committees
Department of Forestry Scholarship and Awards Committee
Recruitment Committee
Technology Subcommittee
Tenure and Promotion Committee