John W. Coulston, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Aaron Weiskittel, Dale Hogg, John W. Coulston, Christopher W. Woodall, Holly L. Munro, Hailemariam Temesgen, Timothy Foley, Nathaniel Osborne, Nathaniel Naumann, James Rakestraw, John S. Gunn, Nadia Tase, Amanda Lang, Stephen Prisley, Thomas R. Fox. 2026. Modernizing America’s National Forest Inventory through a Third Blue Ribbon Panel
• Evan B. Brooks, John W. Coulston, David Walker. 2026. Baseline Land Use Map for the Conterminous United States in Support of the 2020 Resources Planning Act Assessment
• John W. Coulston, Phillip J. Radtke, Erik B. Schilling, Steven P. Prisley, David Walker, Jim Westfall. 2025. Forest conversions in the United States from a certification and regulatory perspective
• David N. Wear, Travis Warziniack, Claire O'Dea, John W. Coulston. 2025. Changing hazards, exposure, and vulnerability in the conterminous United States 2020-2070
• Jill M. Derwin, Valerie A. Thomas, Randolph H. Wynne, Karen G. Schleeweis, John W. Coulston, S. Seth Peery, Kurt Luther, Greg C. C. Liknes, Stacie Bender, Susmita Sen. 2025. Factors influencing the consistency in crowdsourced interpretations of aerial photographs to measure tree canopy cover
• Héctor I. Restrepo, Holly L. Munro, Stephen P. Prisley, Erik Schilling, Philip J. Radtke, Renate Bush, John W. Coulston, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2025. Population estimate differences for forest biomass, merchantable volume, and carbon pools as a result of modeling system updates in the United States
• Jim Westfall, Philip J. Radtke, David Walker, John W. Coulston. 2025. Model error propagation in a compatible tree volume, biomass, and carbon prediction system
• Jennifer Costanza, Kevin M. Potter, David Walker, Frank H. H. Koch, Andrew Gray, John W. Coulston. 2025. Old-growth forest area projected to increase on United States federal lands under alternative future scenarios
• Katherine Renwick, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Christopher Mihiar, Lara T. Murray, Reid Lewis, Peter Beeson, John W. Coulston. 2025. Evaluating the current status of agriculture-driven deforestation across jurisdictional scales in the United States using foundational, federal datasets
• Jim Westfall, John W. Coulston, Andrew Gray, John D. Shaw, Philip J. Radtke, David M. Walker, Aaron R. Weiskittel, David W. MacFarlane, David L.R. Affleck, Dehai Zhao, Hailemariam Temesgen, Krishna P. Poudel, Jereme M. Frank, Stephen P. Prisley, Yingfang Wang, Andrew J. Sánchez Meador, David Auty, Grant M. Domke. 2024. A national-scale tree volume, biomass, and carbon modeling system for the United States
• 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
• John W. Coulston, Grant M. Domke, David Walker, Evan Brooks, Claire O'Dea. 2023. Near-term investments in forest management support long-term carbon sequestration capacity in forests of the United States
• Kurt Riitters, Jennifer Costanza, John W. Coulston, Peter Vogt, Karen G. Schleeweis. 2023. Interpreting image texture metrics applied to landscape gradient data
• 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
• Kurt Riitters, John W. Coulston, Christopher Mihiar, Evan B. Brooks, Eric J. Greenfield, Mark D. D. Nelson, Grant M. Domke, Miranda H. Mockrin, David J. Lewis, David J. Nowak. 2023. Land Resources
• Jennifer Costanza, Frank H. H. Koch, Matt C. Reeves, Kevin M. Potter, Karen G. Schleeweis, Kurt Riitters, Sarah Anderson, Evan B. Brooks, John W. Coulston, Linda A. Joyce, Prakash Nepal, Benjamin Poulter, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, J. Morgan Varner, David M. Walker. 2023. Disturbances to Forests and Rangelands
• John W. Coulston, Evan B. Brooks, Brett J. Butler, Jennifer Costanza, David M. Walker, Grant M. Domke, Jesse Caputo, Marla Markowski-Lindsay, Emma M. Sass, Brian F. Walters, Jinggang Guo. 2023. Forest Resources
• 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
• Jim Westfall, John W. Coulston, Gretchen Moisen, Hans Andersen. 2022. Sampling and estimation documentation for the Enhanced Forest Inventory and Analysis Program: 2022
• Dehai Zhao, Thomas B. Lynch, Jim Westfall, John W. Coulston. 2022. Additional biomass estimation alternatives: nonlinear two- and three-stage least squares and full information maximum likelihood for slash pine
• Dekker Ehlers, Chao Wang, John W. Coulston, Yulong Zhang, Tamlin Pavelsky, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Curtis Woodcock, Conghe Song. 2022. Mapping Forest Aboveground Biomass Using Multisource Remotely Sensed Data
• Qianqian Cao, Garret T. Dettmann, Philip J. Radtke, John W. Coulston, Jill Derwin, Valerie A. Thomas, Harold E. Burkhart, Randolph H. Wynne. 2022. Increased Precision in County-Level Volume Estimates in the United States National Forest Inventory With Area-Level Small Area Estimation
• Garret T. Dettmann, Philip J. Radtke, John W. Coulston, P. Corey Green, Barry T. (Ty) Wilson, Gretchen Moisen. 2022. Review and Synthesis of Estimation Strategies to Meet Small Area Needs in Forest Inventory
• Jim Westfall, John W. Coulston. 2022. Estimating change in annual timber products output using a stratified sampling with certainty design
• Frank H. H. Koch, John W. Coulston. 2022. Drought and moisture surplus patterns in the conterminous United States: 2020, 2018–2020, and 2016–2020
• Jim Westfall, Andrew J. Lister, John W. Coulston, Ronald E. McRoberts. 2021. Realized and potential efficiency for post-stratified estimation in a national forest inventory
• Yulong Zhang, Conghe Song, Taehee Hwang, Kimberly Novick, John W. Coulston, James Vose, Matthew P. Dannenberg, Christopher R. Hakkenberg, Jiafu Mao, Curtis E. Woodcock. 2021. Land cover change-induced decline in terrestrial gross primary production over the conterminous United States from 2001 to 2016
• Frank H. H. Koch, John W. Coulston. 2021. Chapter 4 - Spatial patterns of drought and moisture surplus in the conterminous United States: 2019, and between 2017 to 2019, and 2015 to 2019
• Zhengyang Hou, Grant M. Domke, Matthew B. Russell, John W. Coulston, Mark D. D. Nelson, Qing Xu, Ronald E. McRoberts. 2021. Updating annual state- and county-level forest inventory estimates with data assimilation and FIA data
• 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
• John W. Coulston, P Corey Green, Philip Radtke, Stephen Prisley, Evan Brooks, Valerie Thomas, Randolph Wynne, Harold E. Burkhart. 2021. Enhancing the precision of broad-scale forestland removals estimates with small area estimation techniques
• John W. Coulston, Christopher B. Edgar, Jim Westfall, Marcus E. Taylor. 2020. Estimation of forest disturbance from retrospective observations in a broad-scale inventory
• Jill M. Derwin, Valerie A. Thomas, Randolph H. Wynne, John W. Coulston, Greg C. C. Liknes, Stacie Bender, Christine E. Blinn, Evan B. Brooks, Bonnie Ruefenacht, Robert Benton, Mark V Finco, Kevin Megown. 2020. Estimating tree canopy cover using harmonic regression coefficients derived from multitemporal Landsat data
• P Corey Green, Harold Burkhart, John W. Coulston, Philip Radtke, Valerie A. Thomas. 2020. Auxiliary information resolution effects on small area estimation in plantation forest inventory
• Dehai Zhao, Bronson P. Bullock, Cristian R. Montes, Mingliang Wang, Jim Westfall, John W. Coulston. 2020. Long-term dynamics of loblolly pine crown structure and aboveground net primary production as affected by site quality, planting density and cultural intensity
• Evan B. Brooks, John W. Coulston, Kurt Riitters, David N. Wear. 2020. Using a hybrid demand-allocation algorithm to enable distributional analysis of land use change patterns
• D. E. Gorelick, L. Lin, H. B. Zeff, Y. Kim, James Vose, John W. Coulston, D. N. Wear, L. E. Band, P. M. Reed, G. W. Characklis. 2020. Accounting for adaptive water supply management when quantifying climate and land cover change vulnerability
• Matthew Winn, Larry A. Royer, James Bentley, Ronald J. Piva, Todd A. Morgan, Erik C. Berg, John W. Coulston. 2020. Timber products monitoring: unit of measure conversion factors for roundwood receiving facilities
• Frank H. H. Koch, John W. Coulston. 2020. Chapter 4 - Drought and moisture surplus patterns in the conterminous United States: 2018, 2016– 2018, and 2014–2018
• 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
• Mark D. D. Nelson, Kurt Riitters, John W. Coulston, Grant M. Domke, Eric J. Greenfield, Linda Langner, David J. Nowak, Claire O'Dea, Sonja Oswalt, Matt C. Reeves, David N. Wear. 2020. Defining the United States land base: a technical document supporting the USDA Forest Service 2020 RPA assessment
• Robert G. Haight, Randall Bluffstone, Jeffrey D. Kline, John W. Coulston, David N. Wear, Kate Zook. 2020. Estimating the Present Value of Carbon Sequestration in U.S. Forests, 2015–2050, for Evaluating Federal Climate Change Mitigation Policies
• Dehai Zhao, Jim Westfall, John W. Coulston, Thomas B. Lynch, Bronson P. Bullock, Cristian R. Montes. 2019. Additive biomass equations for slash pine trees: comparing three modeling approaches
• P Corey Green, Harold Burkhart, John W. Coulston, Philip J. Radtke. 2019. A novel application of small area estimation in loblolly pine forest inventory
• Ranjith Gopalakrishnan, Jobriath Kauffman, Matthew Fagan, John W. Coulston, Valerie Thomas, Randolph Wynne, Thomas Fox, Valquiria Quirino. 2019. Creating landscape-scale site index maps for the southeastern US is possible with airborne LiDAR and Landsat imagery
• Frank H. H. Koch, John W. Coulston. 2019. Chapter 4 - Drought and moisture surplus patterns in the conterminous United States: 2017, 2015-2017, and 2013-2017
• David N. Wear, John W. Coulston. 2019. Specifying forest sector models for forest carbon projections
• Sheila M. Saia, Kelly M. Suttles, Bethany B. Cutts, Ryan E. Emanuel, Katherine L. Martin, David N. Wear, John W. Coulston, James Vose. 2019. Applying climate change risk management tools to integrate streamflow projections and social vulnerability
• 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
• Jereme Frank, Aaron Weiskittel, David Walker, Jim Westfall, Philip J. Radtke, David L.R. Affleck, John W. Coulston, David W. MacFarlane. 2019. Gaps in available data for modeling tree biomass in the United States
• Grant M. Domke, C. A. Williams, R. Birdsey, John W. Coulston, A. Finzi, C. Gough, Robert G. Haight, J. Hicke, Maria Janowiak, B. de Jong, W. A. Kurz, M. Lucash, S. Ogle, M. Olguín-Álvarez, Yude Pan, M. Skutsch, C. Smyth, Chris Swanston, P. Templer, David N. Wear, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2018. Chapter 9: Forests
• John W. Coulston, Jim Westfall, David N. Wear, Christopher B. Edgar, Steven P. Prisley, Thomas B. Treiman, Robert C. Abt, W. Brad Smith. 2018. Annual monitoring of US timber production: rationale and design
• Dehai Zhao, Thomas Lynch, James Westfall, John W. Coulston, Michael Kane, David Adams. 2018. Compatibility, development, and estimation of taper and volume equation systems
• Kelly M. Suttles, Nitin K. Singh, James Vose, Katherine L. Martin, Ryan E. Emanuel, John W. Coulston, Sheila M. Saia, Michael T. Crump. 2018. Assessment of hydrologic vulnerability to urbanization and climate change in a rapidly changing watershed in the Southeast U.S.
• Taek Joo Kim, David N. Wear, John W. Coulston, Ruhong Li. 2018. Forest land use responses to wood product markets
• Frank H. H. Koch, John W. Coulston. 2018. Chapter 4 - Moisture deficit and surplus in the conterminous United States for three time windows: 2016, 2014-2016, and 2012-2016
• Jennifer Costanza, Don Faber-Langendoen, John W. Coulston, David N. Wear. 2018. Classifying forest inventory data into species-based forest community types at broad extents: exploring tradeoffs among supervised and unsupervised approaches
• Philip Radtke, David Walker, Jereme Frank, Aaron Weiskittel, Clara DeYoung, David MacFarlane, Grant M. Domke, Christopher W. W. Woodall, John W. Coulston, Jim Westfall. 2017. Improved accuracy of aboveground biomass and carbon estimates for live trees in forests of the eastern United States
• R. Bluffstone, John W. Coulston, Robert G. Haight, Jeffrey D. Kline, S. Polasky, David N. Wear, K. Zook. 2017. Estimated values of carbon sequestration resulting from forest management scenarios
• Jennifer Costanza, John W. Coulston, David N. Wear. 2017. An empirical, hierarchical typology of tree species assemblages for assessing forest dynamics under global change scenarios
• Katherine L. Martin, Taehee Hwang, James Vose, John W. Coulston, David N. Wear, Brian Miles, Lawrence E. Band. 2017. Watershed impacts of climate and land use changes depend on magnitude and land use context
• Frank H. H. Koch, John W. Coulston. 2016. Chapter 4: 1-Year (2014 , 3-Year (2012–2014 ) , and 5-Year (2010–2014) Maps of Drought and Moisture Surplus for the Conterminous United States
• Evan B. Brooks, John W. Coulston, Randolph H. Wynne, Valerie A. Thomas. 2016. Improving the precision of dynamic forest parameter estimates using Landsat
• John W. Coulston, Christine E. Blinn, Valerie A. Thomas, Randolph H. Wynne. 2016. Approximating prediction uncertainty for random forest regression models
• 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
• Frank H. H. Koch, William D. Smith, John W. Coulston. 2015. Chapter 4: Drought Patterns in the Conterminous United States, 2012
• Francis Roesch, John W. Coulston, Paul Van Deusen, Rafal Podlaski. 2015. Evaluation of image-assisted forest monitoring: A simulation
• Robert Benton, Bonnie Ruefenacht, Vicky Johnson, Tanushree Biswas, Craig Baker, Mark Finco, Kevin Megown, John W. Coulston, Ken Winterberger, Mark Riley. 2015. NLCD tree canopy cover (TCC) maps of the contiguous United States and coastal Alaska
• Bonnie Ruefenacht, Robert Benton, Vicky Johnson, Tanushree Biswas, Craig Baker, Mark Finco, Kevin Megown, John W. Coulston, Ken Winterberger, Mark Riley. 2015. Forest service contributions to the national land cover database (NLCD): Tree Canopy Cover Production
• John W. Coulston, David N. Wear, Jim Vose. 2015. Observed and projected C change in the Southeastern US
• John M. Zobel, John W. Coulston. 2015. Determining forest carbon stock losses due to wildfire disturbance in the Western United States
• Grant M. Domke, John W. Coulston, Christopher W. W. Woodall. 2015. The new forest carbon accounting framework for the United States
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, Brian F. Walters, John W. Coulston, A.W. D’Amato, Grant M. Domke, M.B. Russell, Paul Sowers. 2015. Monitoring network confirms land use change is a substantial component of the forest carbon sink in the eastern United States
• David N. Wear, John W. Coulston. 2015. From sink to source: Regional variation in U.S. forest carbon futures
• Elizabeth Freeman, Gretchen Moisen, John W. Coulston, Barry T. (Ty) Wilson. 2015. Random forests and stochastic gradient boosting for predicting tree canopy cover: Comparing tuning processes and model performance
• Aaron R. Weiskittel, David W. MacFarlane, Philip J. Radtke, David L.R. Affleck, Hailemariam Temesgen, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Jim Westfall, John W. Coulston. 2015. A call to improve methods for estimating tree biomass for regional and national assessments
• John W. Coulston, David N. Wear, James Vose. 2015. Complex forest dynamics indicate potential for slowing carbon accumulation in the southeastern United States
• Frank H. H. Koch, William D. Smith, John W. Coulston. 2014. Chapter4 - Drought patterns in the conterminous United States and Hawaii.
• John W. Coulston, Greg Reams, David N. Wear, C. Kenneth Brewer. 2014. An analysis of forest land use, forest land cover, and change at policy-relevant scales
• James Wickham, Collin Homer, James Vogelmann, Alexa McKerrow, Rick Mueler, Nate Herold, John W. Coulston. 2014. The multi-resolution land characteristics (MRLC) consortium–20 years of development and integration of USA national land cover data
• Frank H. H. Koch, Bill Smith, John W. Coulston. 2013. Recent drought conditions in the Conterminous United States
• Kurt Riitters, John W. Coulston. 2013. Fragmentation of eastern United States forest types
• James Miller, Dawn Lemke, John W. Coulston. 2013. The Invasion of Southern Forests by Nonnative Plants: Current and Future Occupation, with Impacts, Management Strategies, and Mitigation Approaches
• Robert Huggett, David N. Wear, Ruhong Li, John W. Coulston, Shan Liu. 2013. Forecasts of forest conditions
• Frank H. H. Koch, Bill Smith, John W. Coulston. 2013. An improved method for standardized mapping of drought conditions
• Jim Westfall, Scott A. Pugh, John W. Coulston. 2013. Conducting tests for statistically significant differences using forest inventory data
• John W. Coulston, Dennis M. Jacobs, Chris R. King, Ivey C. Elmore. 2013. The influence of multi-season imagery on models of canopy cover: A case study
• Frank H. H. Koch, John W. Coulston, William D. Smith. 2012. High-Resolution Mapping of Drought Conditions
• Francis Roesch, John W. Coulston, Andrew D. Hill. 2012. Statistical properties of alternative national forest inventory area estimators
• Frank H. H. Koch, John W. Coulston, Bill Smith. 2012. Mapping drought conditions using multi-year windows
• Dawn Lemke, John W. Coulston, Philip Hulme, Clint Paterson, Jennifer A. Brown. 2012. Invasive potential of invasive plants in the forest of the southern region, United States
• John W. Coulston, Kellen Nelson, Christopher W. W. Woodall, David Meriwether, Gregory A. Reams. 2012. The climate change performance scorecard and carbon estimates for national forest
• 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
• Gretchen Moisen, John W. Coulston, Barry T. (Ty) Wilson, Warren B. Cohen, Mark V. Finco. 2012. Choosing appropriate subpopulations for modeling tree canopy cover nationwide
• John Tipton, Gretchen Moisen, Paul L. Patterson, Thomas A. Jackson, John W. Coulston. 2012. Sampling intensity and normalizations: Exploring cost-driving factors in nationwide mapping of tree canopy cover
• John W. Coulston, Gretchen Moisen, Barry T. (Ty) Wilson, Mark V. Finco, Warren B. Cohen, Ken Brewer. 2012. Modeling percent tree canopy cover: a pilot study
• Paul L. Patterson, John W. Coulston, Francis Roesch, James A. Westfall, Andrew D. Hill. 2012. A primer of nonresponse in the US Forest Inventory and Analysis program
• John W. Coulston. 2011. Modeling ozone bioindicator injury with microscale and landscape-scale explanatory variables: A logistic regression approach
• Kurt Riitters, John W. Coulston, James Wickham. 2011. Fragmentation of forest communities in the eastern United States
• James A. Westfall, Paul L. Patterson, John W. Coulston. 2011. Post-stratified estimation: with-in strata and total sample size recommendations
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, Michael C. Amacher, William Bechtold, John W. Coulston, Sarah Jovan, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, KaDonna Randolph, Bethany K. Schulz, Gretchen C. Smith, Susan Will-Wolf. 2011. Status and future of the forest health indicators program of the USA
• Frank H. H. Koch, John W. Coulston. 2010. Modeling current climate conditions for forest pest risk assessment
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, Barbara Conkling, Michael C. Amacher, John W. Coulston, Sarah Jovan, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Bethany K. Schulz, Gretchen C. Smith, Susan Will Wolf. 2010. The Forest Inventory and Analysis Database Version 4.0: Database Description and Users Manual for Phase 3
• John W. Coulston. 2009. Insects and diseases
• John W. Coulston. 2009. Air pollution: Tropospheric ozone, and wet deposition of sulfate and inorganic nitrogen
• John W. Coulston. 2009. Drought
• Anita K. Rose, John W. Coulston. 2009. Ozone injury across the Southern United States, 2002–06
• Stephen P. Prisley, Huei-Jin Wang, Philip J Radtke, John W. Coulston. 2009. Combining FIA plot data with topographic variables: Are precise locations needed?
• Joe McCollum, Dale D. Gormanson, John W. Coulston. 2009. Correct county areas with sidebars for Virginia
• Sonja Oswalt, Chengquan Huang, Hua Shi, James Vogelmann, Zhiliang Zhu, Samuel N. Goward, John W. Coulston. 2009. Integrating Landsat-derived disturbance maps with FIA inventory data: Applications for state-Level forest resource assessments
• Sonja Oswalt, Tony Johnson, John W. Coulston, Christopher M. Oswalt. 2009. Mississippi's forests, 2006
• Christopher M. Oswalt, Sonja Oswalt, Tony Johnson, James L. Chamberlain, KaDonna Randolph, John W. Coulston. 2009. Tennessee's Forests, 2004
• John W. Coulston. 2008. Forest inventory and stratified estimation: a cautionary note
• John W. Coulston, Frank H. Koch, William D. Smith, Frank J. Sapio. 2008. Invasive forest pest surveillance: survey development and reliability
• Mark J. Ambrose, Barbara Conkling, Kurt Riitters, John W. Coulston. 2008. The forest health monitoring national technical reports: examples of analyses and results from 2001-2004
• John W. Coulston, Mark J. Ambrose. 2007. Ozone bioindicator
• John W. Coulston. 2007. Insect and disease activity (2003)
• John W. Coulston. 2007. Drought occurence
• John W. Coulston. 2007. Fire occurence (2004)
• Sally Campbell, Ron Wanek, John W. Coulston. 2007. Ozone injury in west coast forests: 6 years of monitoring.
• John W. Coulston, Kurt Riitters, Ronald E. McRoberts, William D. Smith. 2006. True versus perturbed forest inventory plot locations for modeling: a simulation study
• John W. Coulston, Mark J. Ambrose, Kurt Riitters, Barbara Conkling, William D. Smith. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2003 national technical report
• John W. Coulston, Mark J. Ambrose, Kurt Riitters, Barbara Conkling. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2002 national technical report
• John W. Coulston, Mark J. Ambrose, Kurt Riitters, Barbara Conkling. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2004 national technical report
• Barbara Conkling, John W. Coulston, Mark J. Ambrose. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2001 national technical report
• John W. Coulston, Kurt Riitters. 2005. Preserving biodiversity under current and future climates: a case study
• Kurt Riitters, John W. Coulston. 2005. Environmental assessment hot spots of perforated forest in the eastern United States
• Ronald E. McRoberts, Geoffrey R. Holden, Mark D. D. Nelson, Greg C. C. Liknes, W. Keith Moser, Andrew J. Lister, Susan L. King, Elizabeth Burrill, John W. Coulston, Brad Smith, Greg Reams. 2005. Estimating and circumventing the effects of perturbing and swapping inventory plot locations
• Kurt Riitters, James Wickham, John W. Coulston. 2004. Use of Road Maps in National Assessments of Forest Fragmentation in the United States
• Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham, John W. Coulston. 2004. A preliminary assessment of Montreal process indicators of forest fragmentation for the United States
• John W. Coulston, Kurt Riitters, Grethchen C. Smith. 2004. A preliminary assessment of the Montréal process indicators of air pollution for the United States
• John W. Coulston, Gretchen C. Smith, William D. Smith. 2003. Regional Assessment of Ozone Sensitive Tree Species Using Bioindicator Plants
• John W. Coulston, Kurt Riitters. 2003. Geographic analysis of forest health indicators using spatial scan statistics
• Kurt Riitters, John W. Coulston, James D. Wickham. 2003. Localizing National Fragmentation Statistics with Forest Type Maps
• Kurt Riitters, James D. Wickham, Robert V. O'Neill, K. Bruce Jones, Elizabeth (Liz) Smith, John W. Coulston, Timothy G. Wade, Jonathan H. Smith. 2002. Fragmentation of Continental United States Forests

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• North Carolina State University, B.S., Forest Management, 1996