Curriculum Vita
Kevin Robert Gehringer
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September 2004 – Present
Principal and managing member
of Biometrics Northwest LLC, a
June
2002 – August 2004, Sole Proprietor
Consulting
Biometrician
The
Rural Technology Initiative,
September
2001 - May 2002, The Rural Technology Initiative (RTI),
Postdoctoral
Researcher
Developed
robust, multivariate, nonparametric target definition and assessment procedures
September
1998 - August 2001, The Stand Management Cooperative,
Ph.D.
Candidate/Postdoctoral Researcher
Designed,
implemented, tested, and documented a set of programs and a portable Fortran
90/95 subroutine library to create and manage a customized database for generating
simulated forest stands
February
1992 - August 1996, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
Member
of the Technical Staff, Navigation and Ancillary Information Facility (NAIF)
Designed,
implemented, documented, tested, supported, and maintained a large, portable
Fortran 77 subroutine library and set of executable programs for an information
system developed to support the space science community
Summer
1990, IBM Corporation, Systems Integration Division,
Summer
Intern/Computer Programmer
Developed
prototype client/server applications for a remote data acquisition product
using the C programming language and the C socket interface to the TCP/IP
communications protocol
Summer
1989, Amoco Production Company,
Summer
Intern/Computer Programmer
Developed
a graphical user interface for annotating geologic well log data and extended
existing software to include file conversion and the automatic generation of
scripts for a geologic well log analysis system
Summer
1988, MPSI Americas, Inc.,
Summer
Intern/Software Analyst
Examined the numerical optimization methods of the MPSI retail market analysis system to identify potential problems and solutions. Results and recommendations were presented to the director of research and development.
Education
June
2001 Ph.D. Obtained, Forest Biometrics, forest classification, forest
simulation, and growth and yield modeling
Dissertation
title: “Dynamic growth and yield modeling with climate: A model for plantation
Douglas-fir in the
December
1998 – June 2001,
Ph.D.
Candidate,
Research:
simulation of natural and managed forests, growth and yield modeling
September
1996 – December 1998,
Graduate
student, Quantitative Resources Management Ph.D. Program
Cumulative
G.P.A.: 3.80/4.00
September
1990 - December 1991,
Mathematical
Sciences Ph.D. Program, no degree obtained
Cumulative
G.P.A. 4.04/4.33
September
1989 - May 1990,
Statistics
Ph.D. Program, no degree obtained
Cumulative
G.P.A. 4.07/4.33
September
1987 - May 1989, The
M.S.
in Applied Mathematics, Obtained May
1990
Graduate
GPA: 4.000/4.000
Emphasis:
Numerical analysis and numerical computing
Master's
Thesis: “Nonparametric Probability Density Estimation Using Normalized
B-Splines”
September
1983 - May 1987, The
B.S.
in Mathematics, Computer Science Minor, Obtained May 1987
Graduated
Magna Cum Laude, Cumulative GPA: 3.808/4.000
Senior
Honors Thesis: “The Calculation of Pharmacokinetic Parameters through the use
of Symbolic Computation and Rotational Discrimination Non-Linear Regression
Analysis”
Computing and Software
Programming Languages and Software
MATLAB
and R for data analysis, visualization, and statistics
C, Fortran 77/90/95, Assembly Language, C-shell,
sed, awk
Client-server
programming using TCP/IP and the C socket interface
Portable
mixed language programming (C and Fortran)
Microsoft
Office products: Word, Access, Powerpoint, Excel
Computers and operating systems
PCs
under Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, Windows, PC-DOS or MS-DOS
Hewlett-Packard
workstations under HP-UX
Sun
workstations and Sparcstations under Solaris and SunOS
Silicon
Graphics workstations under IRIX
NeXT
workstations under NeXTStep
IBM
mainframes under CMS and TSO/MVS
DEC
Micro VAX II, VAX 11/750, and VAX 11/780 under VMS
DEC
Alpha under Open VMS
Awards and Honors
Research
Assistantship in the Quantitative Resources Management Ph.D. Program,
Member:
Alpha Chapter, Xi Sigma Pi Forestry Honor Society.
Jet
Propulsion Laboratory,
Certificate
of Recognition for the NAIF Toolkit, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration,
NASA Tech Briefs, “The SPICE System,” October 1997, Vol. 21, No. 10.
Research
Assistantship, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematic Ph.D. program
Teaching
assistantship, Department of Statistics Ph.D. Program.
The
Teaching
Assistantship, Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences.
Honors
Scholarship, University Scholar Scholarship.
Graduated
magna cum laude, G.P.A. 3.808/4.000, May 1987.
Member:
Professional Memberships
Society
of American Foresters.
Kuhn,
Kuhn,
Gary, Hanley, Donald, Robinson, Dennis, Gehringer, Kevin (2005) “Living Snow
Fences: Protection that keeps growing. Two year growth responses:
Zobrist,
K.W., K.R. Gehringer, and B.R. Lippke. (2005) A sustainable solution for
riparian management. In R.L. Deal and S.M. White, editors, Understanding key
issues of sustainable wood production in the
Gehringer,
Kevin R. (2004b) “An Individual Tree Simulation Model for Managed Riparian
Buffers.” A technical report prepared for the Rural Technology Initiative,
Gehringer,
Kevin R. (2004a) “An Individual Tree Simulation Model for Estimating Expected
Values of Potentially Available Large Woody Debris (LWD).” A technical report
prepared for the Rural Technology Initiative,
Zobrist,
K.W., K.R. Gehringer, and B.R. Lippke. (2004) Templates for Sustainable
Riparian Management on
Gehringer,
Kevin R (2005). “A Nonparametric Method
for Defining and Using Biologically Based Targets in
Gehringer,
Kevin R. (2003) “Nonparametric target definition and assessment procedures with
an application to riparian forest management.” A technical report prepared for
the Rural Technology Initiative,
Gehringer,
Kevin R. (2001) New Shoots: A tree list
generation database tutorial. A technical report prepared for The Stand
Management Cooperative,
Gehringer,
Kevin R. (2001) Dynamic growth and yield
modeling with climate: A model for plantation Douglas-fir in the
Gehringer,
Kevin R. and Turnblom, Eric C. (2000) Tree
list generation database user’s guide and reference manual. A technical
report prepared for The Stand Management Cooperative,
Redner,
R. A. and K. R. Gehringer (1994) "Function Estimation Using Partitions of
Unity."' Comm. in Stat.-Theory and Methods, Vol. 23, No. 7, pp. 2059-2076.
Gehringer,
Kevin R and Richard A. Redner (1992) "Nonparametric Probability Density
Estimation Using Normalized B-Splines.'' Communications in Statistics, Part B:
Simulation and Computation, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp 849-878.
Gehringer,
Kevin R. (1990) Nonparametric Probability
Density Estimation Using Normalized B-Splines. Master's Thesis, Department of
Mathematics and Computer Science, The
Potentially available LWD metrics for assessing
riparian forest function. Society of American Foresters National Convention,
October 27-31, 2010,
Using quantitative forest structure targets: the
good, bad, and ugly. Society of American Foresters National Convention, October
27-31, 2010,
Seeing the trees in the forest when estimating
riparian shade. Society of American Foresters National Convention, October
27-31, 2010,
Constructing a virtual forest: An hierarchical
nearest neighbors method for generating simulated tree lists. 2006 Nearest
Neighbors Workshop, August 28-30, 2006,
A Nonparametric Method for Defining and Using
Biologically Based Targets in
Dynamic
Growth and Yield Modeling: An application of S-systems to
Constructing
a virtual forest: A nearest neighbor tree list generation procedure. Invited
presentation at the Tree List Generation Symposium,
An
Evaluation of the Fertilization Response of the Tree and Stand Simulator (TASS).
Western Mensurationsists Conference, 1998, Port