Institution: USDA Forest Service
Department: Northern Research Stationions
271 Mast Road
Durham, NH 03824
Hubbard Brook Role: Investigator, Project Leader, Northern Forest Science and Applications
Phone: (603) 868-7638
Email: christopher.w.woodall@usda.gov
ORCID: 0000-0001-8076-6214
Website: http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/people/Woodall
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Research Interests

Research statement: I provide scientific leadership for a cadre of dedicated USFS scientists and staff involved in the development of forest science and related applications that improve our understanding, monitoring, and management of northern forest ecosystems from Maine to Minnesota. A number of world-class research forests are maintained by this research unit, such as Hubbard Brook, that provide a plethora of opportunities for engaging partners (states, universities, NGOs) in research of mutual interest. In addition to my leadership of the research unit, impactful research assigned to me includes refining our quantification and understanding of the role of forest dead wood in forest stand dynamics, production, and carbon cycles. In addition to dead wood exploration, I investigate the refinement of forest stand dynamics metrics, such as stocking indices, to accommodate emerging theories of tree functional traits and related stand development processes. Finally, as a former Forest Inventory and Analysis scientist and Lead Scientist of the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory of US Forests, I identify ways to upscale research results from experimental forests to the population level with a focus on forest carbon accounting and management.

Hubbard Brook Publications by this Author

Nash, J. M., Vadeboncoeur, M. A., McGee, G. G., Woodall, C. W., & Yanai, R. D. (2023). Biomass accumulation in trees and downed wood in northern hardwood forests: Repeated measures of a successional chronosequence in New Hampshire, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2023-0060
Sharma, S., Andrus, R., Bergeron, Y., Bogdziewicz, M., Bragg, D. C., Brockway, D., Cleavitt, N. L., Courbaud, B., Das, A. J., Dietze, M., Fahey, T. J., Franklin, J. F., Gilbert, G. S., Greenberg, C. H., Guo, Q., Hille Ris Lambers, J., Ibanez, I., Johnstone, J. F., Kilner, C. L., … Clark, J. S. (2022). North American tree migration paced by climate in the West, lagging in the East. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(3), e2116691118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2116691118
Green, M. B., Fraver, S., Lutz, D. A., Woodall, C. W., D’Amato, A. W., & Evans, D. M. (2022). Does deadwood moisture vary jointly with surface soil water content? Soil Science Society of America Journal, 86(4), 1113–1121. https://doi.org/10.1002/saj2.20413
Woodall, C. W., Evans, D. M., Fraver, S., Green, M. B., Lutz, D. A., & D’Amato, A. W. (2020). Real-time monitoring of dead wood moisture in forests: Lessons learned from an intensive case study. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2020-0110
Jevon, F. V., D’Amato, A. W., Woodall, C. W., Evans, K., Ayres, M. P., & Matthes, J. H. (2019). Tree basal area and conifer abundance predict soil carbon stocks and concentrations in an actively managed forest of northern New Hampshire, USA. Forest Ecology and Management, 451, 117534. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117534
Fahey, T. J., Woodbury, P. B., Battles, J. J., Goodale, C. L., S. Hamburg, S., Ollinger, S., & Woodall, C. W. (2009). Forest Carbon Storage: Ecology, Management and Policy. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, DOI: 10.1890/080169.