Woody Biomass: Agenda

8:30 - 8:45 Introductions
Liam Leightley and George Hopper
8:45 - 9:15 Bryce Stokes
USDA Forest Services
Perspectives on supplies of woody biomass for bioenergy
9:15 - 9:45 Patrick Glass
Mississippi Institute for Forest Inventory
Woody biomass available in Mississippi
9:45 - 10:00 BREAK
10:00 - 10:30 Dick Carmical
The Price Companies
Harvesting and preprocessing forest biomass
10:30 - 11:00 Phil Steele
Mississippi State University
Bundled Slash: A potential new biomass resource for energy, fuels and chemicals
11:00 - 11:30 Gene Quick
Forest Energy Associates
Converting wood into chips for co-firing in power plants
11:30 - 12:00 Steve Taylor
Auburn University
Converting wood to energy using a mobile “Biomax” unit
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 4:00 Larry Biles/Randy Rousseau
Southern Forest Research Partnership
Mississippi State University
Woody biomass utilization: A training workshop