College of Forestry
Kennedy, Rebecca S.H.
Assistant Professor (Courtesy)
Specialty:
Forest Landscape Ecology
Educational Background:
- B.A., 1991, University of Oregon, Eugene
- M.S., 1999, Oregon State University, Corvallis
- Ph.D., 2005, Oregon State University, Corvallis
Research Interests:
Forest landscape ecology, climate change, biodiversity, old-growth forest ecology and conservation, landscape structure and dynamics, influences of disturbances and environmental changes on forest landscape diversity and resilience
Research Support:
- American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. Prioritizing fuel treatments by estimating restoration potential and understanding their effects. 2009-2011. $110,533. Lead Scientist for Fire Probabilities and Climate Change Module.
- Joint Fire Science Program. Assessing the compatibility of fuel treatments, wildfire risk, and conservation of Northern Spotted Owl habitats and populations in the eastern Cascades: a multi-scale analysis. 2009-2011. $418,856. (Principal Investigator (PI))
- Deschutes National Forest. Development and evaluation of landscape-level fire and vegetation dynamics models to evaluate potential alternative futures under different management policies (e.g. Northern Spotted Owl Recovery Plan revision for dry forest types) and climate change. 2009. $50,000. (PI)
- National Science Foundation. Long-Term Ecological Research at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (LTER6). 2008-2014. $5,640,000. (Collaborator and Coauthor)
- Northwest Forest Plan Interagency Monitoring Program. Developing a risk assessment approach for estimating losses from Late Successional Old Growth. 2007-2008. $100,000. (PI)
- Northwest Forest Plan Interagency Monitoring Program. Characterizing the range and variability of pre-management era forest conditions to support forest plan revision, project-level planning, and implementation in Central Oregon. 2006-2007. $106,500. (PI)
- Northwest Forest Plan Interagency Monitoring Program. Fire risk to late successional forests. 2005-2006. $105,000. (PI)
- Oregon Dept. of Forestry. Snag and Log Dynamics for the Elliott State Forest. 2003-2004. $15,000. (PI)
Current/Recent Programs:
Landscape dynamics and conservation policy in dry forests, potential effects of climate change to wildlife and carbon sequestration, old-growth forest conservation, effects of climate change and management on forest vegetation and fire dynamics
Selected Publications:
- Kennedy, R.S.H., R.J. Pabst, K.A. Olsen and T.A. Spies. 2010. Potential future dead wood dynamics in a multi-ownership region: the Coastal Province of Oregon, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 259: 312-322.
- Kennedy, R.S.H., Wimberly, M.C. 2009. Historical fire and vegetation dynamics in dry forests of the interior Pacific Northwest, USA, and relationships to Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) habitat conservation. Forest Ecology and Management 258: 54-566.
- Wimberly, M.C., Kennedy, R.S.H. 2008. Spatially explicit modeling of mixed-severity fire regimes and landscape dynamics. Forest Ecology and Management 254: 511-523.
- Kennedy, R.S.H., Spies, T.A., Gregory, M.J. 2008. Relationships of dead wood patterns with biophysical characteristics and ownership according to scale in Coastal Oregon, USA. Landscape Ecology 23: 55-68.
- Kennedy, R.S.H., Spies, T.A. 2007. An assessment of dead wood patterns and their relationships with biophysical characteristics in two landscapes with different disturbance histories in coastal Oregon (USA). Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37: 940-956.
- Spies, T.A., McComb, B.C., Kennedy, R.S.H., McGrath, M., Olsen, K.A., Pabst, R.J. 2007. Potential effects of forest policies on terrestrial biodiversity in a multi-ownership province. Ecological Applications 17: 48-65.
- Kennedy, R.S.H., Spies, T.A. 2005. Dynamics of hardwood patches in a conifer matrix: 54 years of change in a forested landscape in Coastal Oregon, USA. Biological Conservation 122: 363-374.
- Kennedy, R.S.H., Spies, T.A. 2004. Forest cover changes in the Oregon Coast Range from 1939 to 1993. Forest Ecology and Management 200: 129-147.
