James Smith, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Coeli Hoover, James Smith. 2025. Wildland and Forest Fire Emissions on Federally Managed Land in the United States, 2001–2021
• Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, James Smith, Eric J. Greenfield, Courtney Giebink, Stephen M. Ogle, John Steller, Kenna Rewcastle, Jonathan Knott, John W. Coulston, Kelly A. Heilman, Ashley Lang. 2024. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, urban trees, and harvested wood products in the United States, 1990–2022
• James Smith, Michael Billmire, Nancy H.F. French, Grant M. Domke. 2024. Application of the wildland fire emissions inventory system to estimate fire emissions on forest lands of the United States
• James Smith, Coeli Hoover. 2024. Sensitivity of fire indicators on forest inventory plots is affected by fire severity and time since burning
• Lara T. Murray, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Andrew J. Lister, Keith Stockmann, Hongmei Gu, Shawn P. Urbanski, Karin Riley, Eric J. Greenfield, Christopher Farley, Hans Andersen, Linda S. Heath, Jeff W. Atkins, Grant M. Domke, Andrew C. Oishi, James Smith, Richard Birdsey, David Skole, Stephen Prisley, Anthony D’Amato, Ethan Belair, Eric Marland, Prakash Nepal, Poonam Khatri, Indroneil Ganguly, Richard Bergman, Kamalakanta Sahoo, John D. Shaw, Jens Stevens, Thomas Buchholz, John Gunn, Lisa McCauley, Joe Fargione, Alexis Ellis, David J. Nowak, Mark Majewsky, Christopher Mihiar. 2024. Quantifying greenhouse gas sources and sinks in managed forest systems
• Panmei Jiang, Matthew B. Russell, Lee Frelich, Chad Babcock, James Smith. 2023. Wildfires correlate with reductions in aboveground tree carbon stocks and sequestration capacity on forest land in the Western United States
• Coeli Hoover, James Smith. 2023. Aboveground live tree carbon stock and change in forests of conterminous United States: influence of stand age
• Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, Courtney L. Giebink, Eric J. Greenfield, James Smith, Michael C. Nichols, Jonathan Knott, Stephen M. Ogle, John W. Coulston, John Steller. 2023. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, urban trees, and harvested wood products in the United States, 1990-2021
• Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David J. Nowak, Eric J. Greenfield, James Smith, Michael C. Nichols, Stephen M. Ogle, John W. Coulston, Tom C. Wirth. 2022. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, urban trees, and harvested wood products in the United States, 1990–2020
• Ariel Lugo, James Smith, Kevin M. Potter, Humfredo Marcano-Vega, Cassandra Kurtz. 2022. The contribution of nonnative tree species to the structure and composition of forests in the conterminous United States in comparison with tropical islands in the Pacific and Caribbean
• James Smith, Grant M. Domke, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2021. Predicting downed woody material carbon stocks in forests of the conterminous United States
• Coeli Hoover, James Smith. 2021. Current aboveground live tree carbon stocks and annual net change in forests of conterminous United States
• Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David J. Nowak, James Smith, Michael C. Nichols, Stephen M. Ogle, John W. Coulston, T.C. Wirth. 2021. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, and urban trees in the United States, 1990–2019
• Coeli Hoover, James Smith. 2020. Selecting a minimum diameter for forest biomass and carbon estimation: How low should you go?
• Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David J. Nowak, James Smith, Stephen M. Ogle, John W. Coulston, T.C. Wirth. 2020. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, and urban trees in the United States, 1990-2018
• Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David J. Nowak, James Smith, Stephen M. Ogle, John W. Coulston. 2019. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land and urban trees in the United States, 1990-2017
• James Smith, Grant M. Domke, Michael C. Nichols, Brian F. Walters. 2019. Carbon stocks and stock change on federal forest lands of the United States
• Thomas A. Albright, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, William McWilliams, Patrick D. Miles, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Rachel Riemann, James Smith, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2018. Ohio Forests 2016
• Dacia M. Meneguzzo, David E. Haugen, Brian F. Walters, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Cassandra Kurtz, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Ronald J. Piva, James Smith. 2018. Northern Great Plains Forests 2015
• Stephen M. Ogle, Grant M. Domke, Werner A. Kurz, Marcelo T. Rocha, Ted Huffman, Amy Swan, James Smith, Christopher Woodall, Thelma Krug. 2018. Delineating managed land for reporting national greenhouse gas emissions and removals to the United Nations framework convention on climate change
• Tonya Lister, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Cassandra Kurtz, Andrew J. Lister, William Luppold, William McWilliams, Patrick D. Miles, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Ronald J. Piva, Rachel Riemann, James Smith, Jim Westfall, Richard Widmann, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2017. Delaware Forests 2013
• Susan Crocker, Brett J. Butler, Cassandra Kurtz, William McWilliams, Patrick D. Miles, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Rachel Riemann, James Smith, Jim Westfall, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2017. Illinois Forests 2015
• James Smith, Coeli Hoover. 2017. Live tree carbon stock equivalence of fire and fuels extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator and Forest Inventory and Analysis approaches
• Thomas A. Albright, William McWilliams, Richard Widmann, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Cassandra Kurtz, Shawn Lehman, Tonya Lister, Patrick D. Miles, Randall Morin, Rachel Riemann, James Smith. 2017. Pennsylvania forests 2014
• Coeli Hoover, James Smith. 2017. Equivalence among three alternative approaches to estimating live tree carbon stocks in the eastern United States
• Scott A. Pugh, Douglas C. Heym, Brett J. Butler, David E. Haugen, Cassandra Kurtz, William McWilliams, Patrick D. Miles, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Rachel Riemann, James Smith, Jim Westfall, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2017. Michigan forests 2014
• Susan Crocker, Charles Barnett, Brett J. Butler, Mark A. Hatfield, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, Dacia M. Meneguzzo, Patrick D. Miles, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Ronald J. Piva, Rachel Riemann, James Smith, Christopher W. W. Woodall, William Zipse. 2017. New Jersey Forests 2013
• Coeli Hoover, James Smith. 2017. Equivalence of live tree carbon stocks produced by three estimation approaches for forests of the western United States
• Ronald J. Piva, Thomas B. Treiman, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Dale D. Gormanson, Douglas Griffith, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, William Luppold, William McWilliams, Patrick D. Miles, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Rachel Riemann, James Smith, Brian F. Walters, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2016. Missouri Forests 2013
• Dale D. Gormanson, Joey Gallion, Charles Barnett, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, William Luppold, William McWilliams, Patrick D. Miles, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Barbara O'Connell, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Rachel Riemann, Ronald J. Piva, James Smith, Paul Sowers, Jim Westfall, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2016. Indiana Forests 2013
• Randall Morin, Gregory W. Cook, Charles Barnett, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Mark A. Hatfield, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, William Luppold, William McWilliams, Patrick D. Miles, Mark D. D. Nelson, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Ronald J. Piva, James Smith, Jim Westfall, Richard Widmann, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2016. West Virginia Forests 2013
• Patrick D. Miles, Curtis L. VanderSchaaf, Charles Barnett, Brett J. Butler, Susan Crocker, Dale D. Gormanson, Cassandra Kurtz, Tonya Lister, William McWilliams, Randall Morin, Mark D. D. Nelson, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Rachel Riemann, James Smith, Brian F. Walters, Jim Westfall, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2016. Minnesota Forests 2013
• Grant M. Domke, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Brian F. Walters, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Matthew B. Russell, James Smith. 2016. Estimating litter carbon stocks on forest land in the United States
• Coeli Hoover, James Smith. 2016. Evaluating revised biomass equations: are some forest types more equivalent than others?
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, John W. Coulston, Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David N. Wear, James Smith, Hans Andersen, Brian J. Clough, Warren B. Cohen, Douglas Griffith, Stephen C. Hagen, Ian S. Hanou, Michael C. Nichols, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Matthew B. Russell, Jim Westfall, Barry T. (Ty) Wilson. 2015. The U.S. forest carbon accounting framework: stocks and stock change, 1990-2016
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2015. Measuring and modeling carbon stock change estimates for US forests and uncertainties from apparent inter-annual variability
• Stephen M Ogle, Kenneth Davis, Thomas Lauvaux, Andrew Schuh, Dan Cooley, Tristram O West, Linda S. Heath, Natasha L Miles, Scott Richardson, F Jay Breidt, James Smith, Jessica L McCarty, Kevin R Gurney, Pieter Tans, A Scott Denning. 2015. An approach for verifying biogenic greenhouse gas emissions inventories with atmospheric CO₂ concentration data
• James Smith, Randy Swaty, Kori Blankenship, Sarah Hagen, Jeannie Patton. 2014. LANDFIRE in the Appalachians
• Coeli Hoover, Richard Birdsey, Bruce Goines, Peter Lahm, Yongming Fan, David J. Nowak, Stephen Prisley, Elizabeth Reinhardt, Kenneth E. Skog, David Skole, James Smith, Carl C. Trettin, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2014. Chapter 6: quantifying greenhouse gas sources and sinks in managed forest systems
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, Mark J. Ducey, James Smith. 2013. Forest carbon dynamics associated with growth and disturbances in Oklahoma and Texas, 1992-2006
• Grant M. Domke, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Brian F. Walters, James Smith. 2013. From Models to Measurements: Comparing Downed Dead Wood Carbon Stock Estimates in the U.S. Forest Inventory
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, Karen Waddell, Christopher M. Oswalt, James Smith. 2013. Standing dead tree resources in forests of the United States
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath, Coeli Hoover. 2013. Carbon factors and models for forest carbon estimates for the 2005-2011 National Greenhouse Gas Inventories of the United States
• Grant M. Domke, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Ronald E. McRoberts, James Smith, Mark A. Hatfield. 2012. Assessing estimation techniques for missing plot observations in the U.S. forest inventory
• Grant M. Domke, Christopher W. W. Woodall, James Smith. 2012. Recent changes in the estimation of standing dead tree biomass and carbon stocks in the U.S. forest inventory
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, James Smith, Grant M. Domke, Sean P. Healey, John W. Coulston, Andrew Gray. 2012. Technical aspects of the forest carbon inventory of the United States: recent past and near future
• Coeli Hoover, James Smith. 2012. Site productivity and forest carbon stocks in the United States: Analysis and implications for forest offset project planning
• Grant M. Domke, Christopher W. W. Woodall, James Smith, Jim Westfall, Ronald E. McRoberts. 2012. Consequences of alternative tree-level biomass estimation procedures on U.S. forest carbon stock estimates
• Grant M. Domke, Christopher W. W. Woodall, James Smith. 2011. Accounting for density reduction and structural loss in standing dead trees: Implications for forest biomass and carbon stock estimates in the United States
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, Mark J. Ducey, James Smith. 2011. Effects of land use/cover change and harvests on forest carbon dynamics in northern states of the United States from remote sensing and inventory data: 1992-2001
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, Mark J. Ducey, James Smith. 2011. Carbon changes in conterminous US forests associated with growth and major disturbances: 1992-2001
• Linda S. Heath, James Smith, Kenneth E. Skog, David J. Nowak, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2011. Managed forest carbon estimates for the US greenhouse gas inventory, 1990-2008
• Linda S. Heath, James Smith, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Dave Azuma, Karen Waddell. 2011. Carbon stocks on forestland of the United States, with emphasis on USDA Forest Service ownership
• Linda S. Heath, Michael C. Nichols, James Smith, John Mills. 2010. FORCARB2: An updated version of the U.S. Forest Carbon Budget Model
• Linda S. Heath, Van Maltby, Reid Miner, Kenneth E. Skog, James Smith, Jay Unwin, Brad Upton. 2010. Greenhouse gas and carbon profile of the U.S. forest products industry value chain
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2010. Exploring the assumed invariance of implied emission factors for forest biomass in greenhouse gas inventories
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, M.J. Ducey, James Smith. 2009. Quantifying scaling effects on satellite-derived forest area estimates for the conterminous USA
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, James Smith, Patrick D. Miles. 2009. Attributes of standing dead trees in forests of the United States
• Linda S. Heath, Mark H. Hansen, James Smith, Patrick D. Miles. 2009. Investigation into calculating tree biomass and carbon in the FIADB using a biomass expansion factor approach
• Daolan Zheng, Linda S. Heath, Mark J. Ducey, James Smith. 2009. A preliminary investigation of forest carbon changes associated with land-use change in northern New England
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2008. Carbon stocks and stock changes in U.S. forests
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, Linda S. Heath, James Smith. 2008. National inventories of down and dead woody material forest carbon stocks in the United States: Challenges and opportunities
• Alicia M. Bray, Leah Bauer, Robert A. A. Haack, Therese M. M. Poland, James Smith. 2007. Invasion Genetics of Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis FAIRMAIRE) in North America
• Peter B. Woodbury, James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2007. Carbon sequestration in the U.S. forest sector from 1990 to 2010
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath, Michael C. Nichols. 2007. US forest carbon calculation tool: forest-land carbon stocks and net annual stock change
• Peter B. Woodbury, Linda S. Heath, James Smith. 2007. Effects of land use change on soil carbon cycling in the conterminous United States from 1900 to 2050
• Kevin C. Ryan, Kristine M. Lee, Matthew G. Rollins, Zhiliang Zhu, James Smith, Darren Johnson. 2006. Landfire: Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project
• Peter B. Woodbury, Linda S. Heath, James Smith. 2006. Land use change effects on forest carbon cycling throughout the southern United States
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath, Kenneth E. Skog, Richard Birdsey. 2006. Methods for calculating forest ecosystem and harvested carbon with standard estimates for forest types of the United States
• Michael P. Spinney, Paul C. Van Deusen, Linda S. Heath, James Smith. 2005. COLE: Carbon On-line Estimator, Version 2
• Patrick Proctor, Linda S. Heath, Paul C. Van Deusen, Jeffrey Gove, James Smith. 2005. COLE: A Web-based Tool for Interfacing with Forest Inventory Data
• Linda S. Heath, James Smith. 2004. Criterion 5, Indicator 26: total forest ecosystem biomass and carbon pool, and if appropriate, by forest type, age class and successional change
• Robert A. Mickler, James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2004. Forest carbon trends in the Southern United States
• Kenneth E. Skog, Kim Pingoud, James Smith. 2004. A method countries can use to estimate changes in carbon stored in harvested wood products and the uncertainty of such estimates
• Linda S. Heath, James Smith. 2004. Criterion 5, Indicator 27: contribution of forest ecosystems of the total global carbon budget, including absorption and release of carbon
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath, Peter B. Woodbury. 2004. How to estimate forest carbon for large areas from inventory data
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2004. Carbon Stocks and Projections on Public Forestlands in the United States, 1952-2040
• Kenneth E. Skog, Kim Pingoud, James Smith. 2004. A method countries can use to estimate changes in carbon stored in harvested wood products and the uncertainty of such estimates
• Linda S. Heath, James Smith, Richard Birdsey. 2003. Carbon trends in U.S. forestlands: a context for the role of soils in forest carbon sequestration
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath, Jennifer C. Jenkins. 2003. Forest volume-to-biomass models and estimates of mass for live and standing dead trees of U.S. forests.
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2002. A model of forest floor carbon mass for United States forest types
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2001. Identifying influences on model uncertainty: an application using a forest carbon budget model
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 2000. Considerations for interpreting probabilistic estimates of uncertainty of forest carbon
• Linda S. Heath, James Smith. 2000. Soil carbon accounting and assumptions for forestry and forest-related land use change
• Linda S. Heath, James Smith. 2000. An assessment of uncertainty in forest carbon budget projections
• Peter B. Woodbury, James Smith, David A. Weinstein, John Laurence. 1998. Assessing Potential Climate Change Effects on Loblolly Pine Growth: A Probabilistic Regional Modeling Approach
• James Smith, Linda S. Heath. 1998. Multidisciplinary views in modeling response to climate change: A workshop summary
• James Smith, Michael K. Rust. 1991. Factors Affecting the Tunneling Behavior of the Western Subterranean Termite, Reticulitermes Hesperus Banks
• Howard G. Halverson, James Smith. 1979. Solar radiation as a forest management tool: a primer of principles and application
• James Smith, Howard G. Halverson. 1979. Estimating snowpack density from Albedo measurement
• Howard G. Halverson, James Smith. 1974. Controlling solar light and heat in a forest by managing shadow sources

• Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, Ph.D., Plant Physiology, 1992
• Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, M.S., Botany, 1985
• Rice University, Houston, TX, B.A., Biology., 1982