Tuesday, August 4

OPENING PLENARY SESSION

Welcome and Introductions

P. David Jones (Conference Chair), Assistant Extension Professor, Department of Forest Products, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

Opportunities for the Forest Products Industries

Alan W. Rudie, Supervisory Research Chemist and Project Leader, Fiber & Chemical Sciences Research Work Unit, Forest Products Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Madison,WI

Cellulosic Biofuels: New Life for Forestry and Agriculture in the Southeast

Timothy G. Rials, Professor and Director of Bioenergy R&D, and Kelly Tiller, Director of External Operations, Office of Bioenergy Programs, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

SESSION I: Policy

Moving the U.S. to 25% Renewable Energy by 2025

R. Bruce Arnold, 25x’25 National Steering Committee, America’s Energy Future, West Chester, PA

Moving Biomass into the Mainstream – Recognizing and Confronting Biases in the Energy Marketplace

John T. Karakash, Forester and Integrated Energy Applications Consultant, Resource Professionals Group, Lewisburg, PA; Lew R. McCreery, Woody Biomass Coordinator, USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Area, Morgantown,WV; Daniel Richter, Professor of Soils & Forest Ecology, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC

POWERPOINT NOT AVAILABLE - Thread the Needle for Success: What Bioenergy Companies Need to Know about the Wood Fiber Supply Chain

Peter J. Stewart, President, CEO, and Founder, Forest2Market, Charlotte, NC

SESSION II: Supply

Strategic Assessment of Biofuels Potential for the U.S.

Marcia Patton-Mallory, Bioenergy & Climate Change Specialist,Western Forestry Leadership Coalition, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO; Nathan Parker, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Transportation Studies, Peter Tittmann, Ph.D. Candidate, Geography Graduate Group, and Quinn Hart, GIS Researcher and Programmer 6, Department of Land, Air & Water Resources, University of California, Davis, CA; Richard Nelson, Co-Director, KSU Center for Sustainable Energy, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS; Ken Skog, Project Leader, USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI; Bryan Jenkins, Professor and Director, UC Davis Energy Institute, University of California, Davis, CA; Ed Gray, President, Heidi Lestyan, Renewable Energy Scientist, and Clair Hessmer, Biochemical Engineer, Antares Group, Inc., Landover, MD; Alex Schroeder, Alternative Fuels Program Director, Western Governor’s Association, Denver, CO

Forging the Missing Link – The Role of a Formal Exchange in Biomass Supply and Demand

Stephen J. Dinehart III, Project Director, Woody Biomass Commodity Exchange, Heartland Business Consultants Inc., Middleton,WI; Ed Corrigan, Director, Finance & Operations, CleanTech Partners Inc., Middleton, WI

A Real-Time, Web-Based Optimal Biomass Site Assessment Tool (BioSAT) – An Economic Assessment of Biomass for the 33 Eastern U.S. States

Timothy M. Young, Research Associate Professor, Forest Products Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; James H. Perdue, Biomass & Bioenergy Liaison, and Andy Hartsell, Research Forester, Forest Inventory & Analysis, USDA Forest Service, Knoxville, TN; Robert C. Abt, Professor and Director, Department of Forestry & Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; Donald G. Hodges, Professor and Director, Department of Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries, and Timothy G. Rials, Professor and Director of Bioenergy R&D, Office of Bioenergy Programs, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Woody Biomass in the U.S. with an eMphasis on Wood Energy

Richard P. Vlosky, Director, Louisiana Forest Products Development Center, School of Renewable Natural Resources, LSU AgCenter, Baton Rouge, LA

Spatial Analysis of Woody Biomass for Bioenergy Production in Missouri

Henry E. (Hank) Stelzer, Associate Professor and State Forestry Extension Specialist, and Chris Barnett, Associate Director, Center for Applied Research & Environmental Systems, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

SESSION III: Utilization

POWERPOINT NOT AVAILABLE - Southern Company Research in Biomass to Power

Jeremiah Haswell, Research Engineer, Southern Company Services, Birmingham, AL; Douglas M. Boylan, Research Professor, School of Engineering, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL; Bill Zemo, Senior Engineer, Alabama Power, Gadsden Steam Plant, Gadsden, AL; Kevin Comer, Senior Project Manager, Antares Group Inc., Harrisonburg, VA

POWERPOINT NOT AVAILABLE - Wood Preservatives from Wood-Based Pyrolysis Oil

Jerome E. Cooper, Research Associate III, El-Barbary M. Hassan, Assistant Research Professor, Philip H. Steele, Professor, and Brian Mitchell, Research Associate, Department of Forest Products, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

Wednesday, August 5

SESSION III: Utilization (continued)

The Conventional Wisdoms of Biomass Utilization: How our Perceptions Affect Policy Choices

Dennis R. Becker, Assistant Professor, and Dalia Abbas, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN; Kathleen E. Halvorsen, Professor, Department of Social Sciences and School of Forest Resources & Environmental Science, Michigan Technology University, Houghton, MI; Pamela Jakes, Research Scientist, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, St. Paul, MN; Sarah McCafferey, Research Scientist, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Evanston, IL; Cassandra Moseley, Research Associate, Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR

Challenges and Opportunities of Producing and Utilizing Wood Pellets in the U.S. South

Marian Marinescu, Assistant Professor, Forest Utilization, and Todd G. Bush, Graduate Assistant, Forest Utilization, School of Forest Resources & Conservation, University of Florida, Milton, FL

Heating Homes in the Northeast with Wood Pellet Fuel: The Expected Economic Effects of Conversion from Heating Oil over the Next 10 Years

William Strauss, President, FutureMetrics, LLC, Bethel, ME

SESSION IV: Harvesting

Bundling Logging Residues with a Modified John Deere Slash Bundler

Dana L. Mitchell, Research Engineer, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Auburn, AL; Tom V. Gallagher, Assistant Professor, Forest Operations, and Steven Meadows, Graduate Student, School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

Production for a Biomass Harvesting System in Pine

Brandon O’Neal, Graduate Research Assistant, and Tom V. Gallagher, Assistant Professor, Forest Operations, School of Forestry & Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL

Financial Considerations of Policy Options to Enhance Biomass Utilization for Reducing Wildfire Hazards

Eini C. Lowell, Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR; Dennis R. Becker, Assistant Professor, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN; Debra S. Larson, Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, College of Engineering & Technology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

Integrated Biomass Harvesting of Tanoak (Lithocarpus densiflorus) in a Centralized Whole Tree Chipping Operation

Hunter Harrill, Graduate Research Assistant, and Han-Sup Han, Associate Professor of Forest Operations & Engineering, Department of Forestry & Wildland Resources, College of Natural Resources & Sciences, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA

Economics and Logistics of Biomass Utilization

Dalia Abbas, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN

SESSION V: Processing

Pilot-Scale Gasification of Southern Forest Resources

Thomas J. Elder, Research Forest Products Technologist, and Leslie H. Groom, Project Leader, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Pineville, LA

POWERPOINT NOT AVAILABLE - Characterization and Partitioning of the Char Ash Collected after the Processing of Pine Wood Chips in the BioMax 25: A Pilot-Scale Gasification Plant for Generating Electricity from Biomass

Thomas L. Eberhardt, Research Forest Products Technologist, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Pineville, LA; Hui Pan, Assistant Professor, Calhoun Research Station, LSU AgCenter, Calhoun, LA; Leslie H. Groom, Project Leader, and Thomas J. Elder, Research Forest Products Technologist, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Pineville, LA

Past, Present, and Future for Pyrolytic Production of Bio-oil

Philip H. Steele, Professor, Department of Forest Products, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

Hydrocarbons from Forest Biomass

Sanjeev Kumar Gajjela, Graduate Research Assistant, El-Barbary M. Hassan and Fei Yu, Assistant Research Professors, and Philip H. Steele, Professor, Department of Forest Products, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS

Physical and Chemical Characterization of Fast Pyrolysis Bio-oil Produced from Various Southern Forestry Feedstocks

El-Barbary M. Hassan, Assistant Research Professor, Philip H. Steele and Leonard Ingram, Professors, and Brian Mitchell, Research Associate, Department of Forest Products, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS