Projects
Research Projects
Current, recent, and open software projects from the Forest Resources and Ecosystem Services Hub.
Past And Recent Projects
A value-driven framework to model the impact of commercial thinning on timber supply and climate change mitigation potential in BC's interior forests
A completed commercial thinning and diverse-planting study on adapting to climate-change-induced timber supply shortage in British Columbia.
OpenJinming (Jimmy) Ke MSc thesis
A completed MSc thesis on system-level climate impact assessment for forest harvesting, fertilization, and harvested wood product use scenarios.
OpenYancun (Walter) Yan MSc thesis
A completed MSc thesis on integrated optimization of forest-sector climate change mitigation potential in British Columbia.
OpenRosalia Jaffray MASc thesis
A completed MASc thesis developing and evaluating FHOPS, an open-source machine-scheduling tool for forest operational planning.
OpenMitacs, Newmont, and forestry decarbonization modelling
A Mitacs Accelerate industrial postdoc project with Newmont on forest-management scenarios as nature-based decarbonization options for the mining sector.
OpenOngoing Research
Open LiDAR workflow for rooftop solar potential in Kamloops
An ongoing MGEM project developing open-source geospatial methods for estimating rooftop solar photovoltaic potential from LiDAR and meteorological data, using Kamloops as a case study.
OpenYunhao (Davis) Xu MASc thesis
An active MASc thesis project developing a principal-agent, rolling-horizon optimization model for post-wildfire salvage harvesting and policy design in British Columbia.
OpenJamie Iversen MASc thesis
An active MASc thesis project developing a fuel-treatment planning decision-support tool for optimizing wildfire-risk-reduction treatments in British Columbia.
OpenCCCANDiES
Open cumulative-effects modelling for climate change, anthropogenic disturbance, natural disturbance, forest ecosystem services, carbon, and forest-sector decision support.
OpenNSERC Discovery Grant research program
The FRESH NSERC Discovery Grant base-funding program for integrated sustainable forest management, forest-sector systems modelling, ecosystem-service decision support, open research software, and trainee projects.
OpenFlashForest drone seeding microsite machine learning
Applied machine-learning work with FlashForest on classifying drone-imagery microsites for aerial seeding and reforestation decision support.
OpenCLEWs-C2070 NRCan grant
A collaborative NRCan project rebuilding forest and biomass supply modelling for CLEWs-C2070 using open ws3 and fresh_fibre components.
OpenSingle-stem snap-and-fly helicopter logging productivity
A Forest Action Lab collaboration studying productivity, cycle-time structure, and operational drivers of single-stem snap-and-fly helicopter logging in coastal British Columbia.
OpenGNSS-based area-cover validation for whole-tree logging equipment
A Forest Action Lab collaboration evaluating GNSS-based methods for estimating daily area covered by ground-based whole-tree logging equipment.
OpenHemlock dwarf mistletoe spread modelling
A collaborative modelling project developing manuscript outputs on hemlock dwarf mistletoe spread and infection dynamics.
OpenOpen Software
WS3
An open-source Python framework for integrated simulation and optimization of forest landscape and wood supply systems.
OpenFHOPS
Forest Harvesting Operations Planning System software for reproducible forest operations planning experiments.
OpenFEMIC
A FRESH software stack for compiling forest inventory and yield-curve data for computational experiments.
OpenNemora
A Python package for fitting probability density functions to tree stem tally data from forest inventory plots.
OpenModelwright
Software for extracting, validating, and reforging spreadsheet models as pure Python code.
OpenFABLE-Pyculator
Notebook controls for working with Modelwright-generated Python versions of FABLE Calculator models.
Openfigrecover
Public-alpha Python software for recovering approximate source tables from published figures when original data were not released.
Openfresh-hectaresbc
A FRESH project recovering, inventorying, documenting, and modernizing the archived HectaresBC geospatial data collection.
Openbadc
A FRESH open software project with public documentation and software citation metadata.
OpenStem diameter distribution fitting
A pair of reproducible stem diameter distribution fitting manuscripts connected to Forest Science, Nemora, and FRESH forest biometrics workflows.
Openroads R package and paper
An R package and Landscape Ecology paper on automated forest road projection methods for forest-change and wildlife-relevant modelling workflows.
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