Lewis Grosenbaugh

Lewis R. Grosenbaugh
Born November 4, 1913
East Orange, New Jersey
Died April 22, 2003
Citizenship United States
Fields Forestry
Institutions US Forest Service
Alma mater Dartmouth College, Yale University
Known for Advancements in sampling and measurements for forest inventories; Angle gauge sampling; Probability proportional to prediction (3P) sampling;
Notable awards Barrington Moore Award and Fellow, Society of American Foresters; Yale University School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Distinguished Alumnus and Distinguished Service Award

Lewis R. (Lou) Grosenbaugh (November 4, 1913 April 22, 2003)[1] was a prominent U.S. Forest Service researcher and head of the Forest Service's first Pioneering Research Unit, in forest mensuration, in Berkeley, California. Known for his contributions to the fields of forest inventory, forest measurement, and forest management, Grosenbaugh built on Walter Bitterlich's idea of estimating the density of a forest with timber cruising so that individual trees could be used to estimate various stand measures, such as volume per acre.

Career

Legacy

A notable contribution of Grosenbaugh was adapting Bitterlich's techniques to forest inventories throughout the US. Grosenbaugh promoted the findings of European foresters and brought them the researchers and foresters in the US.[3]

Grosenbaugh had pioneered many original thoughts during his work in statistical sampling of trees in forests, including subsampling trees to obtain a volume to basal area ratio.[4]

References

  1. http://www.flsaf.org/hof/hof-grosenbaugh.htm
  2. http://www.mensurationists.com/event/QMM/a_retrospective_look.htm
  3. http://www.proaxis.com/~johnbell/itp/itpgros.htm
  4. http://www.proaxis.com/~johnbell/regular/regular_online6.htm
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