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Miles Merwin

Agroforester (ACES)

NRCS-National Air Quality and Atmospheric Change Team
1201 NE Lloyd Blvd, Suite 1000
Portland, Oregon 97232-1202
Phone: 503-273-2421
Fax: 503-273-2401
Email: miles.merwin@por.usda.gov

Education
Year Degree/Institution
1988 Graduate Diploma, Dept. of Forestry, Australian National University
1977 M.S. Horticulture, University of California, Davis, CA
1974 B.A. Biology & Environmental Studies, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA

Background
Years Position
2006-Present Agroforester (ACES), NRCS, Portland, OR
1995-2005 President, Director, Editor; Association for Temperate Agroforestry Inc.
1987-1989 Project Co-Investigator, Environmental Horticulture Dept., UC Davis
1986-1995 President, Eucalyptus Improvement Association Inc.
1981-1984 President, Agroforestry Associates Inc.
1979-2002 Executive Director, International Tree Crops Institute Inc.

Selected Publications

Merwin, M.L. and Townsend, L.R., 2007, Online tool for estimating carbon storage in agroforestry practices, Proc. 10th North American Agroforestry Conference, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, Laval University.

Merwin, M.L., Powers, M., Bishaw, B. and Brodie, D., 1999, Biological, economic and public policy aspects of agroforestry enterprises combined with riparian buffers on farmland in Western Oregon, Proc. 6th North Amer. Agroforestry Conference, Hot Springs, AR, Association for Temperate Agroforestry, Columbia, MO.

Merwin, M.L., ed., 1997, The Status, Opportunities and Needs for Agroforestry in the United States, Association for Temperate Agroforestry, Columbia, MO, 41 p.

Merwin, M.L., J.A. Martin and R.D. Westfall, 1995, Provenance and progeny variation in growth and frost tolerance of Casuarina cunninghamiana in California, USA, Forest Ecology and Management 79:161-171.

Merwin, M.L., 1990, Preliminary results of Casuarina cunninghamiana and C. glauca provenance trials in California, USA, in M.H. El-Lakany, J.W. Turnbull & J.L. Brewbaker, eds., Advances in Casuarina Research and Utilization, American University in Cairo, pp. 23-31.