Nathaniel Anderson, PhD

Research Forester

Rocky Mountain Research Station

nathaniel.m.anderson@usda.gov

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Geonho Kim, Woodam Chung, Nathaniel Anderson, Heesung Woo. 2026. Optimizing deployment of mobile biochar production equipment for enhanced slash management
Heechan Jeong, Heesung Woo, Woodam Chung, Taejin Kim, Nathaniel Anderson. 2026. SlashScan: An iOS application for real-time forest slash pile volume estimation and mapping
Dipita Ghosh, Nathaniel Anderson, Han-Sup Han. 2026. Comparative assessment of biochar reactor technologies for biomass conversion: Design, performance, and application suitability
Jinghan Zhao, Jingxin Wang, Levente Denes, Zhichao Liu, Nathaniel Anderson, Richard Bergman, Kai Lan, Wanhe Hu. 2025. Life cycle assessment of hardwood cross-laminated timber production in the eastern United States
Srijana Baral, Kurt Mackes, Amanda West Fordham, Nathaniel Anderson, Maria Gaetani. 2025. Woody biomass utilization, consumption and production in Colorado
Dipita Ghosh, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Han-Sup Han, Nathaniel Anderson. 2025. Role of biochar made from low-value woody forest residues in ecological sustainability and carbon neutrality
Paul O. Oyier, Han-Sup Han, Dipita Ghosh, Nathaniel Anderson, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Dan W. McCollum, Joanne M. Tirocke, Derek Pierson. 2024. FireBox and CharBoss: An alternative to open burning of woody biomass
Wil de Jong, Takuya Takahashi, Georg Winkel, Agata Konczal, Nathaniel Anderson, David Andrew. Wardell. 2024. Forest flickers of history. Early modern woodland restoration and how it shapes postmodern options [Chapter 2]
Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Joanne M. Tirocke, Nathaniel Anderson, James G. Archuleta, Daniel W. McCollum, Jeffrey T. Morisette, Derek Pierson, Carlos Rodriguez-Franco. 2024. Continuous in-woods production of biochar using a trailer-mounted air curtain burner
Jinghan Zhao, Jingxin Wang, Nathaniel Anderson. 2024. Machine learning applications in forest and biomass supply chain management: A review
S. Michelle Greiner, Courtney Schultz, Nathaniel Anderson. 2024. A qualitative assessment to inform strategic improvement of Research and Development within the USDA Forest Service
Derek Pierson, Nathaniel Anderson, Jessica Brewen, Nehalem C. Clark, Margaret C. Hardy, Dan W. McCollum, Frank H. McCormick, Jeffrey T. Morisette, Timothy Nicosia, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Carlos Rodriguez‑Franco, Joanne M. Tirocke. 2024. Beyond the basics: A perspective on barriers and opportunities for scaling up biochar production from forest slash
Terrie B. Jain, Sharon M. Hood, Shawn McKinney, Jeffrey E. Ott, Alexandra K. Urza, Morgan Varner, Ilana Abrahamson, Nathaniel Anderson, Michael A. Battaglia, Jeanne C. Chambers, Brice Hanberry, Francis F. Kilkenny, Joseph O’Brien. 2023. Can fuel treatments change how a wildfire burns across a landscape?
Andrea Watts, Nathaniel Anderson, Michael A. Battaglia, Elizabeth (Beth) Dodson, John Goodburn, McKenna Hedgepeth, Ching-Hyun Huang, Graham Worley-Hood, Mary-Ellen Reyna, Lucas Townsend. 2023. Keeping eyes on the prize: Laying the groundwork for sustainable biomass utilization in the Southwest
Heesol Chang, Han-Sup Han, Nathaniel Anderson, Yeon-Su Kim, Sang-Kyun Han. 2023. The cost of forest thinning operations in the western United States: A systematic literature review and new thinning cost model
Md Abu Helal, Nathaniel Anderson, Yu Wei, Thompson, Matthew. 2023. A review of biomass-to-bioenergy supply chain research using bibliometric analysis and visualization
Nathaniel Anderson. 2022. Why invest in biomass? The benefits of biomass markets in the Southwest
Shawn McKinney, Ilana Abrahamson, Terrie B. Jain, Nathaniel Anderson. 2022. A systematic review of empirical evidence for landscape-level fuel treatment effectiveness
Nathaniel Anderson, John S. Hogland. 2022. Resources to improve the efficiencies of forest operations
Alexis Neukirch, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Nathaniel Anderson, Dan W. McCollum, Jim Archuleta, Jessie Salix. 2022. Biochar basics: An A-to-Z guide to biochar production, use, and benefits
Andrea Watts, Nathaniel Anderson, Woodam (Woody) Chung, John S. Hogland, Robert Keefe, Ryer Becker, John Twitchell. 2022. There’s more to harvesting than green timber and sawlogs: Engineering forest operations for 21st-century forest management
Terrie B. Jain, Ilana Abrahamson, Nathaniel Anderson, Sharon M. Hood, Brice Hanberry, Francis F. Kilkenny, Shawn McKinney, Jeffrey E. Ott, Alexandra K. Urza, Jeanne C. Chambers, Michael A. Battaglia, J. Morgan Varner, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2021. Effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale: State of understanding and key research gaps
Nathaniel Anderson, Hongmei Gu, Richard Bergman. 2021. Comparison of novel biochars and steam activated carbon from mixed conifer mill residues
John S. Hogland, David L. R. Affleck, Nathaniel Anderson, Carl Seielstad, Solomon Dobrowski, Jon Graham, Robert Smith. 2020. Estimating forest characteristics for longleaf pine restoration using normalized remotely sensed imagery in Florida USA
Anil Raj Kizha, Han-Sup Han, Nathaniel Anderson, Anil Koirala, Libin T. Louis. 2020. Comparing hot and cold loading in an integrated biomass recovery operation
John S. Hogland, Nathaniel Anderson. 2019. The big picture: New perspectives on restoring landscapes
Robert M. Campbell, Nathaniel Anderson. 2019. Comprehensive comparative economic evaluation of woody biomass energy from silvicultural fuel treatments
Matthew P. Thompson, Yu Wei, Dave E. Calkin, Christopher D. O'Connor, Christopher Dunn, Nathaniel Anderson, John S. Hogland. 2019. Risk management and analytics in wildfire response
Lucas Townsend, Elizabeth Dodson, Nathaniel Anderson, Graham Worley-Hood, John Goodburn. 2019. Harvesting forest biomass in the US southern Rocky Mountains: cost and production rates of five ground-based forest operations
John S. Hogland, Nathaniel Anderson, David Affleck, Joseph St. Peter. 2019. Using forest inventory data with Landsat 8 imagery to map longleaf pine forest characteristics in Georgia, USA
Ryer M. Becker, Robert F. Keefe, Nathaniel Anderson, Jan U. H. Eitel. 2018. Use of lidar-derived landscape parameters to characterize alternative harvest system options in the Inland Northwest
Jesse D. Young, Nathaniel Anderson, Helen T. Naughton. 2018. Influence of policy, air quality, and local attitudes toward renewable energy on the adoption of woody biomass heating systems
Dan Loeffler, Nathaniel Anderson. 2018. Impacts of the mountain pine beetle on sawmill operations, costs, and product values in Montana
Dan Loeffler, Nathaniel Anderson. 2018. Recovering from the mountain pine beetle
Robert M. Campbell, Nathaniel Anderson, Daren E. Daugaard, Helen T. Naughton. 2018. Financial viability of biofuel and biochar production from forest biomass in the face of market price volatility and uncertainty
Hee Han, Woodam Chung, Ji She, Nathaniel Anderson, Lucas Wells. 2018. Productivity and costs of two beetle-kill salvage harvesting methods in northern Colorado
Hongmei Gu, Richard Bergman, Nathaniel Anderson, Sevda Alanya-Rosenbaum. 2018. Life cycle assessment of activated carbon from woody biomass
Joseph St. Peter, John S. Hogland, Nathaniel Anderson, Jason Drake, Paul Medley. 2018. Fine resolution probabilistic land cover classification of landscapes in the southeastern United States
John S. Hogland, Nathaniel Anderson, Joseph St. Peter, Jason Drake, Paul Medley. 2018. Mapping forest characteristics at fine resolution across large landscapes of the southeastern United States using NAIP imagery and FIA field plot data
John S. Hogland, Nathaniel Anderson, Woodam Chung. 2018. New geospatial approaches for efficiently mapping forest biomass logistics at high resolution over large areas
Hee Han, Woodam Chung, Lucas Wells, Nathaniel Anderson. 2018. Optimizing biomass feedstock logistics for forest residue processing and transportation on a tree-shaped road network
Robert M. Campbell, Nathaniel Anderson, Daren E. Daugaard, Helen T. Naughton. 2018. Technoeconomic and policy drivers of project performance for bioenergy alternatives using biomass from beetle-killed trees
Robert M. Campbell, Tyron Venn, Nathaniel Anderson. 2018. Cost and performance tradeoffs between mail and internet survey modes in a nonmarket valuation study
Jesse D. Young, Nathaniel Anderson, Helen T. Naughton, Katrina Mullan. 2018. Economic and policy factors driving adoption of institutional woody biomass heating systems in the United States
Robert M. Campbell, Tyron J. Venn, Nathaniel Anderson. 2018. Heterogeneity in preferences for woody biomass energy in the US Mountain West
Jessica M. Western, Antony S. Cheng, Nathaniel Anderson, Pamela Motley. 2017. Examining the social acceptability of forest biomass harvesting and utilization from collaborative forest landscape restoration: A case study from western Colorado, USA
Yaejun Kim, Woodam Chung, Hee Han, Nathaniel Anderson. 2017. Effect of downed trees on harvesting productivity and costs in beetle-killed stands
Woodam Chung, Paul Evangelista, Nathaniel Anderson, Anthony Vorster, Hee Han, Krishna Poudel, Robert Sturtevant. 2017. Estimating aboveground tree biomass for beetle-killed lodgepole pine in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado
John S. Hogland, Nathaniel Anderson. 2017. Function modeling improves the efficiency of spatial modeling using big data from remote sensing
Richard Bergman, Hongmei Gu, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Nathaniel Anderson. 2017. Life cycle analysis of biochar [Chapter 3]
Nathaniel Anderson, Richard Bergman, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese. 2017. A supply chain approach to biochar systems [Chapter 2]
Dan Loeffler, Stu Hoyt, Nathaniel Anderson. 2017. Production rates for United States Forest Service brush disposal planning in the northern Rocky Mountains
Ryer M. Becker, Robert F. Keefe, Nathaniel Anderson. 2017. Use of real-time GNSS-RF data to characterize the swing movements of forestry equipment
Robert M. Campbell, Tyron J. Venn, Nathaniel Anderson. 2016. Social preferences toward energy generation with woody biomass from public forests in Montana, USA
Reid Hensen, Maureen Essen, Nathaniel Anderson, Larry Peters, April Kimmerly. 2016. Integrating sustainable biofuels and byproducts into forest industry supply chains
Dan Loeffler, Nathaniel Anderson, Todd A. Morgan, Colin B. Sorenson. 2016. On-site energy consumption and selected emissions at softwood sawmills in the southwestern United States
Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Nathaniel Anderson, Keith N. Windell, Karl Englund, Kevin Jump. 2016. Development and use of a commercial-scale biochar spreader
Dan Loeffler, Nathaniel Anderson, Todd A. Morgan, Colin B. Sorenson. 2016. On-site energy consumption at softwood sawmills in Montana
Lucas A. Wells, Woodam Chung, Nathaniel Anderson, John S. Hogland. 2016. Spatial and temporal quantification of forest residue volumes and delivered costs
Nathaniel Anderson, Dana Mitchell. 2016. Forest operations and woody biomass logistics to improve efficiency, value, and sustainability
Sue Miller, Maureen Essen, Nathaniel Anderson, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Dan W. McCollum, Richard Bergman, Tom Elder. 2016. Burgeoning biomass: Creating efficient and sustainable forest biomass supply chains in the Rockies, Part II
John S. Hogland, Nathaniel Anderson. 2015. Estimating FIA plot characteristics using NAIP imagery, function modeling, and the RMRS raster utility coding library
John S. Hogland, Nathaniel Anderson. 2015. Estimating FIA plot characteristics using NAIP imagery, function modeling, and the RMRS Raster Utility coding library
Robert Campbell, Tyron Venn, Nathaniel Anderson. 2015. Quantifying social preferences toward woody biomass energy generation in Montana, USA
Matthew P. Thompson, Nathaniel Anderson. 2015. Modeling fuel treatment impacts on fire suppression cost savings: A review
Dongyeob Kim, Nathaniel Anderson, Woodam Chung. 2015. Financial performance of a mobile pyrolysis system used to produce biochar from sawmill residues
Jacqueline M. Jarvis, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Nathaniel Anderson, Yuri Corilo, Ryan P. Rodgers. 2014. Characterization of fast pyrolysis products generated from several western USA woody species
Sue Miller, Maureen Essen, Nathaniel Anderson, Woody Chung, William J. Elliot, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Han-Sup Han, John S. Hogland, Christopher R. Keyes. 2014. Burgeoning biomass: Creating efficient and sustainable forest biomass supply chains in the Rockies
Robert Keefe, Nathaniel Anderson, John S. Hogland, Ken Muhlenfeld. 2014. Woody biomass logistics [Chapter 14]
Keith Stockmann, Nathaniel Anderson, Jesse D. Young, Kenneth E. Skog, Sean P. Healey, Dan Loeffler, Edward Butler, J. Greg Jones, James Morrison. 2014. Estimates of carbon stored in harvested wood products from United States Forest Service Rocky Mountain Region, 1906-2012
Keith Stockmann, Nathaniel Anderson, Jesse D. Young, Kenneth E. Skog, Sean P. Healey, Dan Loeffler, Edward Butler, J. Greg Jones, James Morrison. 2014. Estimates of carbon stored in harvested wood products from United States Forest Service's Sierra Nevada Bio-Regional Assessment Area of the Pacific Southwest Region, 1909-2012
Edward Butler, Keith Stockmann, Nathaniel Anderson, Jesse D. Young, Kenneth E. Skog, Sean P. Healey, Dan Loeffler, J. Greg Jones, James Morrison. 2014. Estimates of carbon stored in harvested wood products from United States Forest Service Southwestern Region, 1909-2012
Dan Loeffler, Nathaniel Anderson, Keith Stockmann, Kenneth E. Skog, Sean P. Healey, J. Greg Jones, James Morrison, Jesse Young. 2014. Estimates of carbon stored in harvested wood products from United States Forest Service Alaska Region, 1910-2012
Nathaniel Anderson, Keith Stockmann, Kenneth E. Skog, Sean P. Healey, J. Greg Jones, James Morrison, Jesse Young, Dan Loeffler. 2014. Estimates of carbon stored in harvested wood products from United States Forest Service Eastern Region, 1911-2012
Dan Loeffler, Nathaniel Anderson, Keith Stockmann, Kenneth E. Skog, Sean P. Healey, J. Greg Jones, James Morrison, Jesse Young. 2014. Estimates of carbon stored in harvested wood products from United States Forest Service Southern Region, 1911-2012
Keith Stockmann, Nathaniel Anderson, Jesse D. Young, Kenneth E. Skog, Sean P. Healey, Dan Loeffler, Edward Butler, J. Greg Jones, James Morrison. 2014. Estimates of carbon stored in harvested wood products from United States Forest Service Intermountain Region, 1911-2012
Keith Stockmann, Nathaniel Anderson, Jesse D. Young, Kenneth E. Skog, Sean P. Healey, Dan Loeffler, Edward Butler, J. Greg Jones, James Morrison. 2014. Estimates of carbon stored in harvested wood products from United States Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region, 1909-2012
Edward Butler, Keith Stockmann, Nathaniel Anderson, Kenneth E. Skog, Sean P. Healey, Dan Loeffler, J. Greg Jones, James Morrison, Jesse Young. 2014. Estimates of carbon stored in harvested wood products from United States Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region, 1909-2012
Maureen Essen, Caroline Morris, Nathaniel Anderson. 2014. Tucker RNG: Little machine, big impact
Neal F. Maker, Rene H. Germain, Nathaniel Anderson. 2014. Working woods: A case study of sustainable forest management on Vermont family forests
John S. Hogland, Nathaniel Anderson, Woodam Chung, Lucas Wells. 2014. Estimating forest characteristics using NAIP imagery and ArcObjects
John S. Hogland, Nathaniel Anderson. 2014. Improved analyses using function datasets and statistical modeling
Dan Loeffler, Nathaniel Anderson. 2014. Emissions tradeoffs associated with cofiring forest biomass with coal: A case study in Colorado, USA
John S. Hogland, Nedret Billor, Nathaniel Anderson. 2013. Comparison of standard maximum likelihood classification and polytomous logistic regression used in remote sensing
Nathaniel Anderson, Jesse D. Young, K. Stockmann, Kenneth E. Skog, Sean P. Healey, D. Loeffler, Greg G. Jones, J. Morrison. 2013. Regional and forest-level estimates of carbon stored in harvested wood products from the United States Forest Service Northern Region, 1906-2010
John S. Hogland, Nathaniel Anderson, Greg G. Jones. 2013. Function modeling: improved raster analysis through delayed reading and function raster datasets
Nathaniel Anderson, Greg G. Jones, Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Dan W. McCollum, Steve P. Baker, Daniel Loeffler, Woodam Chung. 2013. A comparison of producer gas, biochar, and activated carbon from two distributed scale thermochemical conversion systems used to process forest biomass
Woodam Chung, Nathaniel Anderson. 2012. Spatial modeling of potential woody biomass flow
Woodam Chung, Dongyeob Kim, Nathaniel Anderson. 2012. Productivity and cost analysis of a mobile pyrolysis system deployed to convert mill residues into biochar
Nathaniel Anderson, Woodam Chung, Dan Loeffler, Greg G. Jones. 2012. A productivity and cost comparison of two systems for producing biomass fuel from roadside forest treatment residues
Jennifer A. Caron, Rene H. Germain, Nathaniel Anderson. 2012. Parcelization and land use: A case study in the New York City Watershed
Rene H. Germain, Myrna H. Hall, Nathaniel Anderson. 2012. An assessment of forest cover and impervious surface area on family forests in the New York City Watershed
Keith D. Stockmann, Nathaniel Anderson, Kenneth E. Skog, Sean P. Healey, Dan Loeffler, Greg Jones, James F. Morrison. 2012. Estimates of carbon stored in harvested wood products from the United States Forest Service Northern Region, 1906-2010
Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Nathaniel Anderson. 2011. Biomass utilization, forest restoration, and soil productivity associated with bioenergy harvesting and biochar application: Field and laboratory strategies for the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Nathaniel Anderson, Rene H. Germain, Eddie Bevilacqua. 2011. Geographic information system-based spatial analysis of sawmill wood procurement

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Ph.D. State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, Ph.D., Forest Resources Management, 2008
M.S. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, M.S., Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology, 2003
B.S. Bates College, Lewiston, ME, B.S., Biology with a concentration in Ecology, 1996

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