Biographical Information about Thomas Spies

Thomas Spies is a Research Ecologist at the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, in Corvallis, Oregon, where he is team leader of the Landscapes and Ecosystems Team. He is also a courtesy professor in the Department of Forest Science in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University. He received his Ph.D. in from the School of Natural Resources at the University of Michigan in 1983. He has been a research fellow at Forestry Research Station in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany and at Harvard Forest in Massachusetts. He was a member of the Forest Ecosystem Management Team that developed the Northwest Forest Plan.

His research interests are broad and include stand dynamics, old-growth forest ecology and conservation, wildlife habitat relationships, remote sensing applications, and landscape ecology. He is currently co-leader of the Coastal Landscape Analysis and Modeling Study (CLAMS), an interdisciplinary project to evaluate ecological and socioeconomic consequences of forest policies.