Brittany Vanderwall, Cf Email & Phone Number

Rogers City, Michigan, United States

- Lead the technical assistance strategy for landowners interested in the Family Forest Carbon Program in the Midwest region. Working with the Regional Team, Central Supply Operations Team, landowners, and foresters - strategically improving program delivery will provide landowners with positive outcomes- Establish and update standard operating procedures.

Rogers City, MI

• Interface with legislators to elevate community development projects and municipality partnerships with the Conservation District.
• Facilitate regional partner collaboration to create opportunities for shared learning and project development.
• Deliver one-on-one technical forestry assistance for non-industrial private forest landowners.
• Design, plan and facilitate ecological seminars, workshops and field days to foster landowner stewardship and active engagement.
• Cultivate strong partnerships with private forestry sector professionals to streamline landowner implementation of proposed forest management activities.
• Maintain landowner database to schedule follow-ups, keep track of landowner management activities and provide regular customer service.

Forestry Building, Ford Center

• Sugar maple vertical and temporal gradient study
• Sampled field data- Created a data sampling design to for sugar maple leaf sampling on a sugar maple dominated stand.
• Data analyzing and processing- Sole responsibility of data entry and processing. Took samples to the lab to be dried and weighed, also cataloged all data.
• Presentation of study- Created a poster presentation for the Ecosystem Science Center informal conference.
• Preparation of thesis- Synthesized data into a senior research thesis to be used in a manuscript for publishing. Manuscript published in Tree Physiology May of 2016.