Nicholas Skowronski, PhD

Former Employee

Research Forester

Northern Research Station

0000-0002-5801-5614

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Aaron E. Maxwell, Michael R. Gallagher, Samuel R. Stockton, Matthew C. Wozniak, Brenden E. McNeil, Julia A. Defeo, Alexis Everland, Nicholas Skowronski. 2026. Repeat terrestrial laser scanning for documenting and monitoring prescribed fire efficacy
Raphael Ogabi, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Albert Simeoni. 2025. Reliability of fire indicators based on the damage differential principle in wildland fire investigation: A laboratory approach
Kenneth L. Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Warren E. E. Heilman, Jay J. Charney, Matthew Patterson, Jason Cole, Eric Mueller, Rory Hadden. 2024. Smoke Emissions and Buoyant Plumes above Prescribed Burns in the Pinelands National Reserve, New Jersey
Alex Jonko, Julia Oliveto, Teresa Beaty, Adam Atchley, Michael A. Battaglia, Matthew B. Dickinson, Michael R. Gallagher, Ash Gilbert, Daniel Godwin, John A. Kupfer, J. Kevin Hiers, Chad Hoffman, Malcolm P. North, Joseph Restaino, Carolyn H. Sieg, Nicholas Skowronski. 2024. How will future climate change impact prescribed fire across the contiguous United States?
C. Wade Ross, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, Steve Flanagan, Jennifer McDaniel, Doug P. Aubrey, Tripp Lowe, J. Kevin Hiers, Nicholas Skowronski. 2024. Lidar-derived estimates of forest structure in response to fire frequency
Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher. 2024. Carbon dynamics of prescribed fire in pine- and oak-dominated forests on the mid-Atlantic coastal plain, USA
Mary Murphy, E. Louise Loudermilk, Scott Pokswinski, Brett Williams, Emily Link, Laila Lienesch, Leta Douglas, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Aaron Maxwell, Grant Snitker, Christie Hawley, Derek Wallace, Irenee Payne, Tim Yurkiewicz, Andrew .J. Sanchez Meador, Chad Anderson, J. Mark Jackson, Russell A. Parsons, Melissa Floca, Isaac Nealey, Ilkay Altintas, J. Kevin Hiers, Jon Wallace. 2024. Terrestrial 3D Laser Scanning for Ecosystem and Fire Effects Monitoring
Ajinkya Desai, Clément Guilloteau, Warren E. E. Heilman, Jay J. Charney, Nicholas Skowronski, Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, Tirtha Banerjee. 2024. Investigating Fire–Atmosphere Interaction in a Forest Canopy Using Wavelets
Joseph Seitz, Shiyuan Zhong, Jay J. Charney, Warren E. E. Heilman, Ken Clark, Randy Bian, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Matthew Patterson, Jason Cole, Michael T. Kiefer, Rory Hadden, Eric Mueller. 2024. Atmospheric turbulence observed during a fuel-bed-scale low-intensity surface fire
Michelle S. Bester, Aaron E. Maxwell, Isaac Nealey, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Brenden E. McNeil. 2023. Synthetic forest stands and point clouds for model selection and feature space comparison
Stephen C. Mason, Vaughn Shirey, Evan S. Waite, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski. 2023. Exploring Prescribed Fire Severity Effects on Ground Beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Taxonomic and Functional Community Composition
Zakary Campbell-Lochrie, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Rory M. Hadden. 2023. The effect of fuel bed structure on Rothermel model performance
E. Louise Loudermilk, Scott Pokswinski, Christie Hawley, Aaron Maxwell, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Andrew T. Hudak, Chad Hoffman, John Kevin. Hiers. 2023. Terrestrial Laser Scan Metrics Predict Surface Vegetation Biomass and Consumption in a Frequently Burned Southeastern U.S. Ecosystem
Aaron E. Maxwell, Michael R. Gallagher, Natale Minicuci, Michelle S. Bester, E. Louise Loudermilk, Scott M. Pokswinski, Nicholas Skowronski. 2023. Impact of Reference Data Sampling Density for Estimating Plot-Level Average Shrub Heights Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning Data
Ajinkya Desai, Warren E. E. Heilman, Nicholas Skowronski, Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Craig B. Clements, Tirtha Banerjee. 2023. Features of turbulence during wildland fires in forested and grassland environments
Alexandra K. Jonko, Rodman R. Linn, Ilkay Altintas, Adam L. Atchley, L. Turin Dickman, Andreas Bar, Adam D. Collins, Jean-Luc Dupuy, Michael R. Gallagher, J. Kevin Hiers, Chad M. Hoffman, Sharon M. Hood, Matthew D. Hurteau, W. Matt Jolly, Alexander Josephson, E. Louise Loudermilk, Wu Ma, Sean T. Michaletz, Rachael H. Nolan, Joseph J. O’Brien, Russell A. Parsons, Raquel Partelli-Feltrin, Francois Pimont, Vıctor Resco de Dios, Joseph Restaino, Zachary J. Robbins, Karla A. Sartor, Emily Schultz-Fellenz, Shawn P. Serbin, Sanna Sevanto, Jacquelyn K. Shuman, Carolyn H. Sieg, Nicholas Skowronski, David R. Weise, Molly Wright, Chonggang Xu, Marta Yebra, Nicolas Younes. 2023. Integrating plant physiology into simulation of fire behavior and effects
E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, Scott Goodrick, Rodman R. Linn, Nicholas Skowronski, J. Kevin. Hiers. 2022. Vegetation’s influence on fire behavior goes beyond just being fuel
Eric V Mueller, Zakary Campbell-Lochrie, C.arlos Walker-Ravena, Matthew Patterson, Jason Cole, Michael R. Gallagher, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Rory M. Hadden. 2022. Flame spread and combustion dynamics in pine litter under unsteady wind conditions
Zakary Campbell-Lochrie, Carlos Walker-Ravena, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Eric V Mueller, Rory M. Hadden. 2022. Effect of Fuel Bed Structure on the Controlling Heat Transfer Mechanisms in Quiescent Porous Flame Spread
Eric V Mueller, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Rory M. Hadden. 2022. Convective heat transfer in pine forest litter beds
Michael R. Gallagher, Jesse K. Kreye, Erika T. Machtinger, Alexis Everland, Nathaniel Schmidt, Nicholas Skowronski. 2022. Can restoration of fire‐dependent ecosystems reduce ticks and tick‐borne disease prevalence in the eastern United States?
C. Wade Ross, E. Louise Loudermilk, Nicholas Skowronski, Scott Pokswinski, J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien. 2022. LiDAR Voxel-Size Optimization for Canopy Gap Estimation
Timothy A. Warner, Tricia A. Miller, Inga La Puma, Lee Ann Nolan, Nicholas Skowronski, Aaron E. Maxwell. 2022. Exploring golden eagle habitat preference using lidar-based canopy bulk density
Jeffrey M. Kane, Michael R. Gallagher, J. Morgan Varner, Nicholas Skowronski. 2022. Evidence of local adaptation in litter flammability of a widespread fire‐adaptive pine
Michael T. Kiefer, Warren E. E. Heilman, Shiyuan Zhong, Jay J. Charney, Randy Bian, Nicholas Skowronski, Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, John Hom, Matthew Patterson. 2022. Representing low-intensity fire sensible heat output in a mesoscale atmospheric model with a canopy submodel: a case study with ARPS-CANOPY (version 5.2.12)
Michael R. Gallagher, Aaron E. Maxwell, Luis Andrés Guillén, Alexis Everland, E. Louise Loudermilk, Nicholas Skowronski. 2021. Estimation of Plot-Level Burn Severity Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning
Eric V Mueller, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Rory M. Hadden. 2021. Approaches to Modeling Bed Drag in Pine Forest Litter for Wildland Fire Applications
Jan C. Thomas, Eric V Mueller, Michael R. Gallagher, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Albert Simeoni, Rory M. Hadden. 2021. Coupled Assessment of Fire Behavior and Firebrand Dynamics
Michael R. Gallagher, Zachary Cope, Daniel Rosales Giron, Nicholas Skowronski, Trevor Raynor, Thomas Gerber, Rodman R. Linn, John Kevin. Hiers. 2021. Reconstruction of the Spring Hill Wildfire and Exploration of Alternate Management Scenarios Using QUIC-Fire
Sophie R. Bonner, Chad M. Hoffman, Jeffrey M. Kane, J. Morgan Varner, J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien, Heather D. Rickard, Wade Tinkham, Rodman R. Linn, Nicholas Skowronski, Russell A. Parsons, Carolyn H. Sieg. 2021. Invigorating prescribed fire science through improved reporting practices
Claire M. Belcher, Stacey L. New, Michael R. Gallagher, Mark J. Grosvenor, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski. 2021. Bark charcoal reflectance may have the potential to estimate the heat delivered to tree boles by wildland fires
Simone Zen, Jan C. Thomas, Eric V Mueller, Bhisham Dhurandher, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Rory M. Hadden. 2021. Development of a Field Deployable Firebrand Flux and Condition Measurement System
Leo Schneider, Benjamin Betting, Matthew Patterson, Nicholas Skowronski, Albert Simeoni. 2021. Experimental study of fire spread through discontinuous fuels without flame contact
Giovanni Di Cristina, Nicholas Skowronski, Albert Simeoni, Ali S. Rangwala, Seong-kyun Im. 2021. Flame spread predictions over linear discrete fuel arrays using an empirical B-number model and stagnation point flow
Scott Pokwinski, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, E. Louise Loudermilk, Christie Hawley, Derek Wallace, Alexis Everland, Jon Wallace, J. Kevin Hiers. 2021. A simplified and affordable approach to forest monitoring using single terrestrial laser scans and transect sampling
Warren E. E. Heilman, Ken Clark, Randy Bian, Jay J. Charney, Shiyuan Zhong, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Matthew Patterson. 2021. Turbulent Momentum Flux Behavior above a Fire Front in an Open-Canopied Forest
Nicholas Skowronski, Bret W. Butler, J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien, J. Morgan. Varner. 2021. The Prescribed Fire Science Consortium
Giovanni Di Cristina, Nicholas Skowronski, Albert Simeoni, Ali S. Rangwala, Seong-kyun Im. 2021. Flame spread behavior characterization of discrete fuel array under a forced flow
Eric V Mueller, Nicholas Skowronski, Kenneth L. Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, William E. Mell, Albert Simeoni, Rory M. Hadden. 2021. Detailed physical modeling of wildland fire dynamics at field scale - An experimentally informed evaluation
Giovanni Di Cristina, Shijin Kozhumal, Albert Simeoni, Nicholas Skowronski, Ali Rangwala, Seong-kyun Im. 2021. Forced convection fire spread along wooden dowel array
Zakary Campbell-Lochrie, Carlos Walker-Ravena, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Eric V Mueller, Rory M. Hadden. 2021. Investigation of the role of bulk properties and in-bed structure in the flow regime of buoyancy-dominated flame spread in porous fuel beds
Timothy A. Warner, Nicholas Skowronski, Inga La Puma. 2020. The influence of prescribed burning and wildfire on lidar-estimated forest structure of the New Jersey Pinelands National Reserve
Scott Pokswinski, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph J. O'Brien, J. Kevin. Hiers. 2020. Diurnal pine bark structure dynamics affect properties relevant to firebrand generation
Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Richard G. Lathrop, Timothy McWilliams, Edwin J. Green. 2020. An Improved Approach for Selecting and Validating Burn Severity Indices in Forested Landscapes
Yana Bebieva, Julia Oliveto, Bryan Quaife, Nicholas Skowronski, Warren E. E. Heilman, Kevin Speer. 2020. Role of Horizontal Eddy Diffusivity within the Canopy on Fire Spread
J. Kevin Hiers, Joseph J. O'Brien, J. Morgan Varner, Bret W. Butler, Matthew B. Dickinson, James Furman, Michael R. Gallagher, David Godwin, Scott Goodrick, Sharon M. Hood, Andrew T. Hudak, Leda N. Kobziar, Rodman Linn, E. Louise Loudermilk, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Kevin Robertson, Eric M. Rowell, Nicholas Skowronski, Adam C. Watts, Kara Yedinak. 2020. Prescribed fire science: the case for a refined research agenda
Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Timothy A. Warner. 2020. Decomposing the Interactions between Fire Severity and Canopy Fuel Structure Using Multi-Temporal, Active, and Passive Remote Sensing Approaches
Ken Clark, Warren E. E. Heilman, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Eric Mueller, Rory M. Hadden, Albert Simeoni. 2020. Fire Behavior, Fuel Consumption, and Turbulence and Energy Exchange during Prescribed Fires in Pitch Pine Forests
Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Nicholas Skowronski, Matthew Patterson, Warren E. E. Heilman, Randy Bian, Jay J. Charney, John Hom, Eric Mueller, Rory Hadden, Zakary Campbell-Lockrie, Carlos Walker-Ravena, Robert Kremens. 2019. Intermediate-scale fire behavior measurements in the field: Bridging the gap between laboratory experiments and management-scale prescribed fires
Jay J. Charney, Michael T. Kiefer, Shiyuan Zhong, Warren E. E. Heilman, Jovanka Nikolic, Randy Bian, John Hom, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Matthew Patterson, Yongqiang Liu, Christie Hawley. 2019. Assessing Forest Canopy Impacts on Smoke Concentrations Using a Coupled Numerical Model
Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher. 2018. Fuels characterization techniques
Patricia R. Butler-Leopold, Louis Iverson, Frank R. Thompson, Leslie Brandt, Stephen Handler, Maria Janowiak, P. Danielle Shannon, Chris Swanston, Scott Bearer, Alexander M. Bryan, Ken Clark, Greg Czarnecki, Philip DeSenze, William D. Dijak, Jacob S. Fraser, Paul F. Gugger, Andrea Hille, Justin Hynicka, Claire A. Jantz, Matthew C. Kelly, Katrina M. Krause, Inga La Puma, Deborah Landau, Richard G. Lathrop, Laura P. Leites, Evan Madlinger, Stephen Matthews, Gulnihal Ozbay, Matthew Peters, Anantha M. Prasad, David A. Schmit, Collin Shephard, Rebecca Shirer, Nicholas Skowronski, Al Steele, Susan L. Stout, Melissa Thomas-Van Gundy, John Thompson, Richard M. Turcotte, David A. Weinstein, Alfonso Yáñez. 2018. Mid-Atlantic forest ecosystem vulnerability assessment and synthesis: a report from the Mid-Atlantic Climate Change Response Framework project
Eric V Mueller, Nicholas Skowronski, Jan C. Thomas, Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Rory Hadden, William E. Mell, Albert Simeoni. 2018. Local measurements of wildland fire dynamics in a field-scale experiment
Ken Clark, Heidi J. Renninger, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Karina V.R. Schäfer. 2018. Decadal-Scale Reduction in Forest Net Ecosystem Production Following Insect Defoliation Contrasts with Short-Term Impacts of Prescribed Fires
Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Warren E. E. Heilman, Nicholas Skowronski, Eric Mueller, Albert Simeoni. 2017. Relationships between firing pattern, fuel consumption, and turbulence and energy exchange during prescribed fires
Warren E. E. Heilman, Randy Bian, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, John Hom, Michael R. Gallagher. 2017. Atmospheric turbulence observations in the vicinity of surface fires in forested environments
Albert Simeoni, Zachary C. Owens, Erik W. Christiansen, Abid Kemal, Michael R. Gallagher, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Eric V. Mueller, Jan C. Thomas, Simon Santamaria, Rory M. Hadden. 2017. A preliminary study of wildland fire pattern indicator reliability following an experimental fire
Eric V. Mueller, Nicholas Skowronski, Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Robert Kremens, Jan C. Thomas, Mohamad El Houssami, Alexander Filkov, Rory M. Hadden, William E. Mell, Albert Simeoni. 2017. Utilization of remote sensing techniques for the quantification of fire behavior in two pine stands
Jan C. Thomas, Eric V. Mueller, Simon Santamaria, Michael R. Gallagher, Mohamad El Houssami, Alexander Filkov, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Rory M. Hadden, William E. Mell, Albert Simeoni. 2017. Investigation of firebrand generation from an experimental fire: Development of a reliable data collection methodology
Timothy A. Warner, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher. 2017. High spatial resolution burn severity mapping of the New Jersey Pine Barrens with WorldView-3 near-infrared and shortwave infrared imagery
Caroline Leland, John Hom, Nicholas Skowronski, F. Thomas Ledig, Paul J. Krusic, Edward R. Cook, Dario Martin-Benito, Javier Martin-Fernandez, Neil Pederson, Dusan Gomory. 2016. Missing Rings, Synchronous Growth, and Ecological Disturbance in a 36-Year Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida) Provenance Study
Mohamad El Houssami, Eric Mueller, Alexander Filkov, Jan C Thomas, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Ken Clark, Robert Kremens, Albert Simeoni. 2016. Experimental procedures characterizing firebrand generation in wildland fires
Nicholas Skowronski, Scott Haag, Jim Trimble, Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Richard G. Lathrop. 2016. Structure-level fuel load assessment in the wildland–urban interface: a fusion of airborne laser scanning and spectral remote-sensing methodologies
Eric Mueller, Nicholas Skowronski, Ken Clark, Robert Kremens, Michael R. Gallagher, Jan Thomas, Mohamad El Houssami, Alexander Filkod, Bret W. Butler, John Hom, William E. Mell, Albert Simeoni. 2015. Initial results from a field experiment to support the assessment of fuel treatment effectiveness in reducing wildfire intensity and spread rate
Warren E. E. Heilman, Craig B. Clements, Daisuke Seto, Randy Bian, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, John Hom. 2015. Observations of fire-induced turbulence regimes during low-intensity wildland fires in forested environments: implications for smoke dispersion
Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher. 2015. Fire management and carbon sequestration in Pine Barren Forests
Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher. 2014. The fire research program at the Silas Little Experimental Forest, New Lisbon, New Jersey
Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, H. Renninger, K.V.R. Schäfer. 2014. Contrasting effects of invasive insects and fire on ecosystem water use efficiency
Eric Mueller, Nicholas Skowronski, Albert Simeoni, Kenneth Clark, Robert Kremens, William E. Mell, Michael R. Gallagher, Jan Thomas, Alexander Filkov, Mohamad El Houssami, John Hom, Bret W. Butler. 2014. Fuel treatment effectiveness in reducing fire intensity and spread rate - An experimental overview
Nicholas Skowronski, Ken Clark, Michael R. Gallagher, Richard Birdsey, John Hom. 2014. Airborne laser scanner-assisted estimation of aboveground biomass change in a temperate oak-pine forest
Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Heidi Renninger, Robert Scheller. 2014. Climate change and fire management in the mid-Atlantic region
Michael T. Kiefer, Warren E. E. Heilman, Shiyuan Zhong, Jay J. Charney, Randy Bian, Nicholas Skowronski, John Hom, Ken Clark, Matthew Patterson, Michael R. Gallagher. 2014. Multiscale simulation of a prescribed fire event in the New Jersey Pine Barrens using ARPS-CANOPY
David Medvigy, Su-Jong Jeong, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Karina V. R. Schäfer. 2013. Effects of seasonal variation of photosynthetic capacity on the carbon fluxes of a temperate deciduous forest
Jason Cole, Kristofer Johnson, Richard Birdsey, Yude Pan, Craig Wayson, Kevin McCullough, Coeli Hoover, David Hollinger, John B. Bradford, Michael G. Ryan, Randy Kolka, Peter Wieshampel, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, John Hom, Scott V. Ollinger, Steve McNulty, Michael Gavazzi. 2013. Database for landscape-scale carbon monitoring sites
Heidi J. Renninger, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Karina V.R. Schäfer. 2013. Effects of a prescribed fire on water use and photosynthetic capacity of pitch pines
Nicholas Skowronski, Andrew J. Lister. 2012. Utility of LiDAR for large area forest inventory applications
D. Medvigy, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, K.V.R. Schäfer. 2012. Simulated impacts of insect defoliation on forest carbon dynamics
Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Hedi Renninger, Karina Schafer. 2012. Effects of invasive insects and fire on energy exchange and evapotranspiration in the New Jersey pine lands
Michael T. Kiefer, Warren E. E. Heilman, Shiyuan Zhong, Jay J. Charney, Randy Bian, Ryan Shadbolt, John Hom, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Michael R. Gallagher, Matthew Patterson. 2011. Development of a fine scale smoke dispersion modeling system. Part II: Case study of a prescribed burn in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Zewei Miao, Richard G. Lathrop, Ming Xu, Inga La Puma, Ken Clark, John Hom, Nicholas Skowronski, Steve Van Tuyl. 2011. Simulation and sensitivity analysis of carbon storage and fluxes in the New Jersey Pinelands
Nicholas Skowronski, Ken Clark, Matthew Duveneck, John Hom. 2011. Three-dimensional canopy fuel loading predicted using upward and downward sensing LiDAR systems
Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Gallagher Michael, Warren E. E. Heilman, John Hom. 2010. Fuel consumption and particulate emissions during fires in the New Jersey Pinelands
Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, John Hom. 2010. Invasive insects impact forest carbon dynamics
Karina V. Schafer, Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Erik P. Hamerklynck. 2010. Impact of insect defoliation on forest carbon balance as assessed with a canopy assimilation model
Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, John Hom, Matthew Duveneck, Yude Pan, Steve Van Tuyl, Jason Cole, Matthew Patterson, Stephen Maurer. 2009. Decision support tools to improve the effectiveness of hazardous fuel reduction treatments in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Nicholas Skowronski, Ken Clark, Ross Nelson, John Hom, Matthew Patterson. 2007. Remotely sensed measurements of forest structure and fuel loads in the Pinelands of New Jersey
Ken Clark, Nicholas Skowronski, Yude Pan, Steve Van Tuyl, Warren E. E. Heilman. 2006. Fire research in the pine barrens of New Jersey