Workgroup directory/information

Workgroup Information Woody Biomass Utilization
Summary	Focus on the urgent need to find viable methods to utilize the excess woody biomass that creates a high fuel hazard in the forests and urban/wildland regions of California.
Website:	http://groups.ucanr.org/WoodyBiomass/
Workgroup Chair Information
Name	John Shelly (Co-Chair)
Phone	(510) 665-3491
E-Mail	jshelly@berkeley.edu
Unit:	Contra Costa County
Location:	Cooperative Extension 75 Santa Barbara Road 2nd Floor Pleasant Hill, 94523-4215

Membership List
AES Scientist
Hartsough, Bruce		Biological & Agricultural Engineering
	Professor and Associate Dean (College of Engineering)	Harvesting short rotation plantations; handling small trees on steep terrain; mechanics and dynamics of forestry equipment, modeling and systems analysis of forest operations; forest biomass for energy.
Jenkins, Bryan		Biological & Agricultural Engineering
	Professor	Energy systems in agriculture; biomass fuel production, thermal conversion, and environmental impacts; combustion and gasification of biomass fuels; properties of fuels; system models.
CE Advisor
De Lasaux, Michael		Plumas Sierra
	Natural Resources Advisor	Forestry, Community Fuel Reduction and Watershed Management
Giusti, Gregory		Lake County
	Lake County Director/Advisor:  Forests & Wildland Ecology	Lake County Director, Forest management, wildlife management, vertebrate pest management, wetlands, watersheds, fisheries and freshwater ecology
Kocher, Susie		El Dorado County
	Natural Resources Advisor	Forestry, fire and water quality
McArthur, Karl		San Bernardino County
	Desert Natural Resource Advisor	Policy Issues/Desert Regions of Tri-County area, San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial
Nader, Glenn		Sutter-Yuba Counties
	Farm Advisor   Livestock and Natural Resources	Livestock, forage crops, range and natural resources
Quarles, Stephen		Contra Costa County
	CE Advisor  Emeritus	Performance of materials in wood-frame buildings; wildfire; moisture; physical properties of wood
Shelly, John		Contra Costa County
	CE Advisor   Forest Products and Biomass Utilization	Forest Products, Wood manufacturing methods, biomass utilization,physical properties of wood
Valachovic, Yana		Humboldt County Office
	Forest Advisor and Humboldt - Del Norte County Director	Forest management and ecology
CE Specialist
Stewart, William		Center for Forestry
	Specialist	forest management
Other ANR
Fall, Carol		Trinity County Cooperative Extension
	Program Representative II
Frost, Bill		Associate Vice President - Academic Programs and Strategic Initiatives
	Associate Director of Cooperative Extension and the Agricultural Experiment Station, Director ANR Research & Extension Center System
Standiford, Richard		ESPM - Ecosystem Sciences
	Cooperative Extension Forest Management Specialist	Resource economics; forest management; hardwood rangelands; silviculture
Non-UC
Allen, Bob		Burney Forest Products
	Forester	Fuels management and harvesting systems
Barbour, Jamie		USFS PNW Research Station
	Research Scientist	Biomass harvesting and utilization
Berton, Fernando		California Integrated Waste Management Board
		Waste Utilization
Blonski, Ken		EBRPD
	Fire Chief	Wildland Fire
Goines, Bruce		USDA Forest Service
	Rural Devel. Prog. Mgr.	Community development in forested regions
Mason, Tad
Wickizer, Doug		CA Dept. of Forestry & Fire Protection
	Forester	Biomass utilization
Williams, Robert		Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
	Associate Development Engineer	Biofuel systems, engineering, policy
Other UC
Mayhead, Gareth		Center for Forestry
	Academic Coordinator - Forest Products	Woody biomass technology and markets, forest products, business development, forest certification, community forestry
Membership Totals
Number of Members		23
ANR Members		15
Non-ANR		8
Info Only		0