Poster # 1. Pabst, Kari ^{*,1, 2}, ¹ Envirotemp Inc. (ETI), Contractor to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS), Sioux Falls, SD² South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, Satellite observation of vegetation response following wildland fires in Glacier National Park, Montana.

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Poster # 2. Zajac, Leila¹, Hanson, D. Eric², Schaafsma, Hoski³, Helg, Hope^*,2, ¹ University of Chicago, Chicago, IL² American Samoa Community College, Pago Pago, AS³ Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, The effects of ecotourism hiking on Tutuila, American Samoa.

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Poster # 3. Aguirre Herrera , María Verónica^*,1, ¹ University is the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Susceptibility for occurring landslides of the soils and rocks of the province of Manabí and the incidence of the anthropic action in the cases in which landslides had taken placed.

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Poster # 4. Peek, Michael^*,1, Pelosi, Michael¹, ¹ Department of Biology, Wayne, NJ, Effects of sand burial on the coastal dune grass Ammophila breviligulata.

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Poster # 5. Kim, John^*,1, Murakami, Masashi², ¹ Duke University, Durham, NC, USA² Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, Bird and prey community response to typhoon-damaged tree plantations and natural stands in Hokkaido, Japan.

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Poster # 6. Goranova, Greta^*,1, Mopper, Susan^*,1, ¹ University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, The impacts of hurricanes on Louisiana native, freshwater Iris hexagona, reproduction.

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Poster # 7. Pan, Shufen^*,1, Tian, Hanqin ¹, Laband, David¹, Lockaby, Graeme¹, Zipperer, Wayne², ¹ School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA² USDA Forest Service, Gainesville, FL, USA, Linking land use / cover to the severity of hurricane storm surges along the US Gulf Coast: an analysis based on remote sensing and GIS.

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Poster # 8. Shirakura, Fumiko^*,1, Arévalo, José², Palmer, Michael³, ¹ Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK² Universidad de La Laguna, Laguna, Tenerife, Spain³ Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, Tree mortality and regeneration following a 2003 tornado in a Cross Timbers forest, Oklahoma.

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Poster # 9. Hart, Justin^*,1, Grissino-Mayer, Henri¹, ¹ University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, Forest composition, structure, and disturbance dynamics of the Pogue Creek Natural Area: a mixed hardwood forest on the Cumberland Plateau.

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Poster # 10. Briden, Sarah^*,1, Hessl, Amy¹, Peterjohn, William¹, Thomas, Richard¹, ¹ West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, Effects of disturbance on productivity of a Central Appalachian forest: an evaluation of the PnET-CN model.

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Poster # 11. Lamoncha, Karen^*,1, Callaham, Mac², Coleman, David¹, Crossley, D.¹, ¹ Institute of Ecology, Athens, GA, USA² Southern Research Station, Athens, GA, USA, Soil microarthropod community composition in a long-term prescribed fire experiment in longleaf pine flatwoods of northeast Florida.

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Poster # 12. Wangen, Steve^*,1, Wang, Geoff², ¹ Clemson University, Clemson, SC² Clemson Univeristy, Clemson, SC, Modeling fire-induced mortality of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris).

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Poster # 13. Mudder, Bryan^*,, Wang, Geoff, Walker, Joan, Costa, Ralph, , Effects of fire season on ground layer vegetation of longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) forests.

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Poster # 14. Halstead, Neal^*,1, Mushinsky, Henry¹, McCoy, Earl, ¹ University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, Long term effects of prescribed fire on reptile and amphibian communities in a Florida sandhill habitat.

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Poster # 15. Welch, Nicole^*,1, Coleman, Dwayne¹, ¹ Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, Questioning the classic Pinus pungens community.

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Poster # 16. Zhang, Chi^*,1, Tian, Hanqin¹, Chen, Hua¹, Liu, Mingliang¹, Wang, Yuhang², Liu, Yongxiang³, ¹ School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA² School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, ATLANTA, GA, USA³ Forestry Sciences Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA, USA, Estimation of the fuel load and carbon flux from natural and prescribed fire in Southeastern US.

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Poster # 17. Beyers, Jan^*,1, Christensen, Wes¹, Wohlgemuth, Peter¹, Hubbert, Ken², ¹ USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Riverside, CA² Hubbert & Associates, Apple Valley, CA, Effects of postfire mulch treatments on vegetation recovery in the southwestern US.

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Poster # 18. Huang, Jianjun¹, Boerner, Ralph¹, Rebbeck, Joanne², ¹ Ohio State University, Columbus, OH² USDA Forest Service, Delaware, OH, Ecophysiological responses of two herbaceous species to prescribed burning alone or combined with thinning.

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Poster # 19. Choczynska, Joanna^*,1, Johnson, Edward¹, ¹ University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, Soil heating in a range of grass fire conditions and subsequent effect on belowground grass organs.

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Poster # 20. Sutheimer, Crystal^*,1, Hotchkiss, Sara¹, Lynch, Elizabeth², Calcote, Randy³, Tweiten, Michael¹, ¹ University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI, USA² Luther College, Decorah, IA, USA³ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN, USA, Macrocharcoal morphology as a tool in reconstructing past vegetation.

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Poster # 21. Guyette, Richard^*,1, Stambaugh, Michael¹, Muzika, Rose-Marie¹, ¹ University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, Modeling and mapping historic fire frequency based on temperature and human population.

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Poster # 22. Murray, Darrel^*,1, White, Joseph¹, ¹ Baylor University, Waco, TX, Edge effects of shaded fuel-breaks on woodlands at Balcones National Wildlife Refuge.

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Poster # 23. Ford, Paulette^*,1, White, Carleton^*,2, ¹ USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Albuquerque, NM² University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Effects of three different fire regimes over 9 years on shortgrass steppe of the southern Great Plains, US.

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Poster # 24. Crandall, Raelene^*,1, Platt, William¹, ¹ Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, Habitat associations of woody reseeders and resprouters (Hypericum spp.) along frequently burned coastal ecoclines.

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Poster # 25. McEwan, Ryan ¹, Hutchinson, Todd², Ford, Robert², McCarthy, Brian^*,1, ¹ Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Athens, Ohio, USA² USDA Forest Service, Delaware, Ohio, An experimental evaluation of fire history reconstruction using dendrochronology in white oak (Quercus alba).

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Poster # 27. Perez, Mario^*,1, Grompone, Kristen¹, Tomback, Diana¹, Schoettle, Anna², ¹ University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO² USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ft. Collins, CO, Whitebark pine regeneration following the 1988 Yellowstone fires: microsites favoring survival and seedling demographics.

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Poster # 28. Calef, Monika^*,1, McGuire, A. David², Chapin, F. Stuart³, ¹ University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY, USA² USGS AK Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, Fairbanks, AK, USA³ University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, When fire suppression fails: a GIS-based analysis.

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Poster # 29. Koyama, Akihiro^*,1, Thompson, Matthew¹, Stephan, Kirsten ¹, Kavanagh, Kathleen¹, ¹ University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA, Fire effects on carbon dynamics in central Idaho coniferous forests.

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Poster # 30. Thomas, Jonathan^*,1, White, Joseph¹, ¹ Baylor University, Waco, TX, Simulated fire spread and intensity on conservation lands for endangered species risk assesment.

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Poster # 31. Camill, Philip ^*,1, Umbanhowar, Charles^*,2, Lynch, Jason³, Solick, Donald¹, Dorale, Jeff⁴, ¹ Carleton College, Northfield, MN² Saint Olaf College, Northfield, MN³ North Central College, Naperville, IL⁴ University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Contrasting long-term interactions of climate, fire, and vegetation over the past 8000 years at two tundra sites in northern Manitoba.

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