Woody Biomass: Speakers

Bryce Stokes
Director of the research and development vegetation management and protection unit at USDA Forest Service. Stokes is involved in the national utilization of woody biomass.

Patrick Glass
Director of operations for the Mississippi Institute of Forestry Inventory, which provides forest resource inventory information via the World Wide Web.

Dick Carmical
President of Price Biostock Services, which offers a broad range of management and services to companies involved in the rapid growth of biofuels refineries.

Phil Steele
Professor in the College of Forest Resources at Mississippi State University. Steele’s research emphasis is the conversion of wood into biooil using flash pyrolysis technology.

Gene Quick
Director of Biomass Resource Associates, LLC. Quick is a forest landowner and involved in initiatives concerned with research and development into the production of renewable fuels.

Steve Taylor
Professor of Forest Engineering and Head of the Biosystems Engineering Department and Director of the Center for Bioenergy and Bioproducts at Auburn University.

Larry Biles
Interim director of the Southern Forest Research Partnership Inc., a cooperative forestry research partnership that foster’s collaborative relationships.

Randy Rousseau
Associate professor in the Forest and Wildlife Research Center at Mississippi State University. Rousseau’s research and extension work emphasize hardwood management.