Alison Adams
Organization: University of Vermont
Affiliations: Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative (FEMC)
Contact Information
E-mail: alison.adams@uvm.edu
Biography
Alison joined FEMC as the Director in 2022. Alison brings a wealth of experience in interdisciplinary environmental work, spanning disciplines from remote sensing and landscape modeling to ecosystem services and stakeholder engagement. She has a Master’s degree in Natural Resources from UVM, which focused on mapping forest change in New England, and is currently completing her PhD exploring how environmental change affects people's experiences of cultural ecosystem services. Alison previously developed Lake Champlain Sea Grant's Watershed Forestry Partnership. She has also worked in environmental advocacy and community outreach in Washington, DC. Outside of work she can usually be found hiking, rock climbing, or exploring the woods looking for interesting mushrooms.
List of Projects
| Project | Role | Start | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aboveground and coarse roots carbon storage estimates based on varying forest type specificity for northwestern Vermont and northeastern New York forests | Project Lead/Principal Investigator | 2014-11-01 | 2016-08-31 |
| Northern forest projected forest cover change: 2015 - 2045 | Participant | 2014-09-01 | 2017-09-01 |
| Mapping forest species mixes across the Northeast from Landsat imagery | Participant | 2014-10-01 | 2018-09-30 |
| Drivers and projections of forest fragmentation in Vermont and the Northeast | Participant | 2018-10-01 | 2020-10-30 |
| Regional Forest Health Monitoring | Project Lead/Principal Investigator | 1992-06-01 | Ongoing |
Documents
| Name | Date | Authors | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| FEMC Browse Impacts Report | 2023 | Jennifer Pontius, Alison Adams, Matthias Sirch, Pia Ruisi-Besares, Elissa Schuett, Soren Donisvitch, Ben Porter, Ralph Green | Report |
| Regional Forest Health Monitoring Program: 2022 Report | 2023 | Jennifer Pontius, Alison Adams, Matthias Sirch, Nancy Voorhis, Alexana Wolf, Elissa Schuett, Soren Donisvitch, Hanson Menzies, Ben Porter | Report |
| Conference Proceedings of the 2022 FEMC Annual Conference | 2023 | Jennifer Pontius, Alison Adams, Elissa Schuett, Hanson Menzies | Annual Report |
| Recreation Impacts Working Group | 2023 | Alison Adams, Elissa Schuett | Other Documents |
| Recreation Monitoring Working Group | 2023 | Alison Adams, Elissa Schuett | Other Documents |
| FEMC Working Group Guidelines | 2023 | Alison Adams, Elissa Schuett | Other Documents |
| AA bio photo | 2022 | Alison Adams | Document |