Personal Statement

"I believe in the power of asking questions to cause thinking."

Research Focus

• Silviculture of the Great Lakes Region
• Forest vegetation dynamics
• Invasive plant species in forest and water-dominated ecosystems

Current Projects Assessment of Control Methods for Glossy Buckthorn Sponsor: USDA ($4,999.60, 12/2005 to 1/2007) Modeling Phloem Removal from Ash Stands to Reduce the Density of Emerald Ash Borer While Maximizing Genetic Diversity of Ash Sponsor: USDA ($109,207.81, 3/2005 to 1/2007) Risk assessment and suppression of garlic mustard invasion in Michigan. Sponsor: USDA Forest Service, State and Private Forestry Division ($47,000, 1/31/05 to 12/31/06) Interactions among prescribed fire, mechanical treatments, insect pests and pathogens in red pine. Sponsor: FHM EM-Fire Funding ($30,106, 1/1/05 to 12/31/05) ($30,151, 1/1/04 to 12/31/04) The Biological and Earth Sciences Session of the USDA Forest Service Program of Advanced Studies in Silviculture USDA Forest Service (PASS-16: $60,588, 12/3/04 to 7/22/05) (PASS-15: $41,115, 9/8/2002 to 10/7/2002) A predictive model for exotic plant species for the Great Lakes Network of the U.S. National Park Service Sponsor: National Park Service ($45,000, 8/15/04 to 9/30/07) Integrating fire breaks into an ecological framework for forested ecosystem management at Seney National Wildlife Refuge. Sponsor: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ($40,000, 2003-2006) Development of a multiaged stocking control model for ponderosa pine in the Black Hills Sponsor: USDA Forest Service ($5,000, 2002-2003) Above-ground carbon allocation in a chronosequence of red pine. North Central Research Station Sponsor: USDA Forest Service ($16,862, 2001-2006) Factors influencing the presence of Pennsylvania sedge on northern hardwood sites Sponsor: USDA McIntire-Stennis ($7,000 each in 2003, 2004, 2005) Diameter distributions of northern hardwoods across spatial scales Sponsor: USDA McIntire-Stennis ($7,000, 2006) Institutional Team with the MSU FIRST II (Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching) Sponsor: NSF (2002-2005)

• O’Hara, K.L. and L.M. Nagel. A Functional comparison of productivity in even-aged and multiaged stands: a synthesis for Pinus ponderosa. Forest Science – Accepted, expected publication date: 2006
• Nagel, L.M., D. Ebert-May, E.P.Weber and J. Hodder. 2005. Learning through peer assessment. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3:390-391
• Schwartz, J.W., L.M. Nagel and C.R. Webster. 2005. Effects of uneven-aged management on diameter distribution and species composition of northern hardwoods in Upper Michigan, U.S.A. Forest Ecology and Management 211:356-370
• Woodall, C.W. and L.M. Nagel. 2005. The species composition of down dead and standing live trees: Implications for forest inventory analysis. Pages 193-198 in Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the Fifth Annual Forest Inventory and Analysis Symposium, New Orleans, LA, November 18-20, 2003. USDA Forest Service GTR WO-69.
• O'Hara, K.L. and L.M. Nagel. 2004. A Multiaged stocking model for Black Hills ponderosa pine. In press, Western Journal of Applied Forestry
• Nagel, L.M., J.A. Vucetich, D.D. Reed, G.D. Mroz and H. Parn. 2003. Woody biomass and annual production across a latitudinal gradient in northern Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) forests. Polish Journal of Ecology 51:471-479.
• Reed, D. and L. Nagel. 2003. Carbon pools and storage along a temperate to boreal transect gradient in northern Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) forests. Polish Journal of Ecology 51:545-552.
• O'Hara, K.L., N.I. Valappil and L.M. Nagel. 2003. Stocking control guidelines for multi-aged ponderosa pine stands in the Inland Northwest. Western Journal of Applied Forestry 18:5-14.
• Risch, A.C., L.M. Nagel, M. Schutz, B.O. Krusi, F. Kienast and H. Bugmann. 2003. Structure and long-term development of subalpine Pinus montana Miller and Pinus cembra L. forests in the central European Alps. Forstwissenschaftliches Centralblatt 122:219-230.
• Nagel, L.M. and K.L. O’Hara. 2002. Diurnal fluctuations of gas exchange and water potential in different stand structures of Pinus ponderosa. Trees 16:281-290.

• Instructor for the Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences Teacher Institute held at the MTU Ford Forestry Center, July 12-17, 2004; June 27-July 2, 2005
• Panel Member for USDA-CSREES NRI Managed Ecosystems Program, Washington, D.C., 2004, 2005, 2006
• Ad-hoc reviewer for USDA-CSREES NRI Soil Processes Program, 2005
• Ad-hoc reviewer for US Civilian Research and Development Foundation, 2005
• Instructor for the Forest Service PASS (Program of Advanced Studies in Silviculture) Lake States Silviculture Session, September 2000
• Director/Instructor for the Forest Service PASS (Program of Advanced Studies in Silviculture)
  Biological and Earth Sciences Session, September 2002
  Lake States Silviculture Session, July 2003
  Biological and Earth Sciences Session, July 2005 PASS
• Panel Member – served on four Forest Service PASS (Program of Advanced Studies in Silviculture) certification panels: two participants on the Ottawa National Forest in May 2004, one participant on the Hiawatha National Forest in November 2004, and one from the Hiawatha yet to be completed
• Reviewer for the following journals: Canadian Journal of Forest Research, CHOICE, Forest Ecology and Management, Forestry, International Journal of Plant Sciences, Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society, New Forests, Southern Journal of Applied Forestry, Western Journal of Applied Forestry