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; • Perform wildlife habitat and invasive plant assessments;• Design and conduct monitoring and survey projects related to forest management and forest ecology; • Conduct literature reviews and summarize the results; • Perform analyses of ecological data; • Cooperating Forester with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation;• Technical Service Provider for forestry and forest management planning for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.

• 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 Alaska, western Canada, northeast United States. My photographs have been published in magazines and books with national and international distribution.

• 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 State & Private Forestry Program and other partners.• 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 management.• 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) Dynamics of canopy gaps and their influence on light attenuation, species richness and composition, and tree regeneration in the forests of southeast Alaska. These reports were requested by the Lab to provide timely information relevant to development of the 1997 Tongass National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan.

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)