Peter Schiess is Professor of Forest Engineering in the Management and Engineering Division. A native of Switzerland, Peter received his Forest Engineering Diploma from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland. After working as a research engineer in soil physics and as Assistant District Forest Engineer, he came to the UW in 1969, where he did graduate work in micrometeorology and received his Ph.D. in 1975. In 1977, he was appointed Assistant Professor in Forest Engineering here in the College.Peter’s first research interests centered around small wood harvesting and mechanized operations. One of his concerns relates to the level of the training wood workers receive in relation to ever-increasing silvicultural and technological complexities faced in the woods. In 1994, he helped create the first training center in the U.S. (located in Forks, WA) dedicated to the training of harvester/forwarder operators.His current research interests center around stream - roads interactions and timber harvest planning as a subset of landscape-level analysis. He is interested in the trade-offs between environmental and economic concerns as they relate to logging operations, road locations and haul. For example, he is using GIS methodologies as a tool for quantification of sediment generation and delivery to streams.