Robert Ott Email & Phone Number

Buffalo, New York, United States

• Conduct wetland delineations;
• Assess water resources;
• Determine the presence of rare species;
• Write technical reports used in environmental assessments for development projects.

Gowanda, NY

• Layout and administer timber sales;
• Develop land/forest management plans;
• Conduct forest inventories;
• Conduct timber appraisals;
• Perform timber trespass investigations;
• Provide technical assistance to landowners;

• Design and conduct research and monitoring projects on forest management and ecology issues;
• Write forest management plans;
• Conduct literature reviews and summarize the results;
• Data analyses and report writing;
• Assist organizations with strategic planning (e.g. assisted the Government of the Yukon, Canada, in development of a forest health risk assessment)
• Professional photography. I have a growing stock photo collection emphasizing forest ecology and management; small-scale agriculture/gardening; deserts of the southwest United States; rural lifestyles; tourism in.

• Was responsible for managing the state of Alaska’s Forest Health Program, overseeing services to state, municipal, and private landowners, and coordinating forest health-related activities with the USDA Forest Service.
• Administered the Forest Health Program budget and acquired and administered grant funds.
• Designed and conducted research projects to deliver program services in silviculture, entomology, pathology, forest ecology, and integrated pest management to maintain and improve the health of Alaska's forests.

• Was responsible for implementing a research program that addressed applied forestry issues on Native lands in Interior Alaska, emphasizing forest health, riparian zone management, silviculture, and hazard fuels.
• Was responsible for dissemination of research findings and for assisting with management of Native lands in Interior Alaska.

I provided three reports to the Forestry Sciences Lab: (1) Small-scale natural disturbance regimes in temperate rainforests of southeast Alaska: description and management importance; (2) Interpretation of wind and treefall patterns at the site- and landscape-level in the forests of southeast Alaska: importance, techniques, and application; and (3).

I was a member of a team responsible for conducting a biodiversity assessment of Clear Air Station, Alaska. I was responsible for characterizing plant communities and I assisted in conducting plant inventories, collecting herbarium specimens, and determining the natural disturbance regime (fire) of the Station.

I constructed landscape-level wind pattern maps of forest planning areas; conducted research comparing the effects of clearcutting and large-scale natural blowdown on plant species diversity and successional pathways; and characterized the effect of wind on riparian habitats as part of an Anadromous Fish Habitat Assessment and Report to Congress.

Ph.D., Forest Ecology

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society (University of Alaska Fairbanks)1987-1990: M.S. Environmental and Forest Biology.

Master Of Science, Environmental And Forest Biology (Concentration In Wildlife Biology And Management)