BDEI 3 - Participant Details: Tim Tolle

Name:

Tim Tolle

Affiliation:

 

Bio

Retired Forest Service with work experience in several agencies including: NASA (remote sensing), OSU Cooperative Extension Service (hydrologist), Oregon Water Resources Board (analyst), Soil and Water Conservation Districts (Associate Supervisor). Held various positions in two regions, and three national forests, including: Regional Ecosystem Management Coordinator; technical lead of Adaptive Management Area network; US Field representative to the International Model Forest Network; regional monitoring coordinator; Forest Planning Staff; and Forest Hydrologist. Led several interagency teams in regional implementation of Northwest Forest Plan, including adaptive management areas and monitoring. Military included stint as personal aide to Commander of the Western Pacific, 1968. Most recently co-directed E-government research project with Dr. Delcambre, for four years. Ph.D. in physical hydrology, OSU. Over three dozen gray-literature papers in hydrolgy, planning,adaptive management and knolwedge management. Original member of Forest Service's Knowledge Management team and Collaborative Stewardship team.

Work:

Developed natural resource ontologies for 30 different fields from existing sources, expressing relationships between and among terms as well as related terms to documents, including manuscripts, maps, photographs, bibliographies and so forth. Identified documents that best serve as knowledge sources to specific audience. Led and participated in user studies to identify needed vocabularies and to identify needed knowledge and knowledge sources. Participated in usability tests to validate user reactions to application developed in response to these needs and sources.

Recommended URLs:

http://www.cse.ogi.edu/forest/papers.php

http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/plan/monitor.html

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