Biographical Information about Tom DeMeo

Tom DeMeo is Regional Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, Portland, Oregon. He received a B.S. in forest science from Penn State (1980), a master’s in forest science from Oregon State (1987), and a PhD in wildlife biology (effects of forest fragmentation and other habitat variables on the abundance and viability of forest songbirds at multiple scales) from West Virginia University (1999).

He served as a Peace Corps forester in Africa from 1980 to 1984. Following his master’s work, he joined the Forest Service as a forest ecologist on the Tongass National Forest (Ketchikan Area) in Alaska (1987-1993), and then on the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia (1993-1998).

From 1998 to late 1999, he worked with NRIS Terra in Sandy, Oregon to provide wildlife data technical support. Since December 1999, he has worked in his current position, providing program leadership for vegetation ecology, serving on national and regional ecological handbook teams, developing mapping and restoration strategies, and helping to implement fuels and landscape monitoring.

Since June 2004 he has also served as a part-time member of the Forest Service national fire ecology technology transfer team.