Title:	Associate Professor of Forest Management
	Phone:	814-865-1602
	Email:	mem14@psu.edu
	Address:	The Pennsylvania State University School of Forest Resources 310 Forest Resources Building University Park, PA 16802-4301

 

 

Education:

B.S., University of Minnesota (1984)

M.S., North Carolina State University (1986)

Ph.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (1989)

Academic Interests:

Forest management planning and economics, operations research, private forest management, property taxes, forest values and valuation, forest growth and yield modeling, oak regeneration, timber supply, geographic information systems, forest management under uncertainty, regional development.

Courses Taught:

Forest Resource Management; Forest Ecosytem Management

Professional Affiliation:

Society of American Foresters; Xi Sigma Pi; INFORMS

Recent Research/Educational Projects:

Developing computer courseware for forest management

Development of a modeling framework for regional analysis of Southern forest economies

 

Initial development of a modeling framework for regional analysis of Southern forest economies

Relating timber prices to timber values and public forest investment in Minnesota

Feasibility of linking Dualplan and IMPLAN in an ecological economic model

Simulating Minnesota's Future Forests

Selected Publications:

Amateis, Ralph L. and Marc E. McDill. 1989. Developing Growth and Yield Models Using Dimensional Analysis. Forest Science 35:329-337.

 

Hoganson, Howard M. and Marc E. McDill. 1992. More on Forest Regulation: An LP Perspective. Forest Science 39(2):321-347.

McDill, Marc E. and Ralph L. Amateis. 1992. Measuring Forest Site Quality Using the Parameters of a Dimensionally Compatible Height Growth Function. Forest Science 38(2):409-429.

McDill, Marc E. and Ralph L. Amateis. 1993. Fitting Discrete-Time Dynamic Models Having Any Time Interval. Forest Science 39(3):499-519.

Rose, Dietmar W., Marc E. McDill, and Howard M. Hoganson. 1992. Development of an Environmental Impact Statement of Statewide Forestry Programs: A Minnesota Case Study. FORS Compiler 10(4):18-27.

Condit, Gordon, McDill, Marc E. and Ray Newbold. 1996. Current Resource Conditions and Future Projections. In: Louisiana's Fourth Forest: An Update. Draft. To be published by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Office of Forestry. Baton Rouge, LA. 19 pp.

Hoganson, Howard M., and Marc E. McDill. 1993. Reforestation Needs to Sustain Forest Industry. Final Report to the Blandin Foundation. University of Minnesota School of Forest Resources, St. Paul, MN.

Hoganson, Howard M., and Marc E. McDill. 1993. Relating Reforestation With Nontimber Values and Mitigation Strategies. Final Report to the Blandin Foundation. University of Minnesota School of Forest Resources, St. Paul, MN.

Hoganson, Howard M. and Marc E. McDill. 1993. Statewide Forest Investment Analysis. Proceedings: Investing in Minnesota's Public Forests. October 6, 1993. Cloquet Forestry Center, University of Minnesota, Cloquet, MN. pp. 33-44.

Jaakko Poyry Consulting, Inc. 1992. A Technical Paper on Economics and Management Issues of the Minnesota Generic Environmental Impact Study of Timber Harvesting and Management in Minnesota. Document presented to the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board. Prepared by Allen L. Lundgren, Marc E. McDill, Donald G. MacKay, and Benedict Airas.

Jaakko Poyry Consulting, Inc. 1992. Forest Productivity and the Forest Resource Base: A Technical Paper for a Minnesota Generic Environmental Impact Study of Timber Harvesting and Management in Minnesota. Document presented to the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board. Prepared by Dietmar W. Rose, Howard M. Hoganson, Alan R. Ek, David K. Walters, Marc E. McDill, and Thomas E. Burk.

MacKay, Donald G., Marc E. McDill and Melvin J. Baughman. 1993. Trends in Financing Minnesota's Public Forestland Management Agencies: 1987-1992. Final Report to the Blandin Foundation. University of Minnesota School of Forest Resources, St. Paul, MN.

MacKay, Donald G., Marc E. McDill, and Melvin J. Baughman. 1993. Trends in Minnesota Public Forest Management Finance. Proceedings: Investing in Minnesota's Public Forests. October 6, 1993. Cloquet Forestry Center, University of Minnesota, Cloquet, MN. pp. 8-24.

McDill, Marc E. 1993. RxWRITE: an information management tool for Minnesota's Generic Environmental Impact Statement on Timber Harvesting. Proceedings of the 1993 SAF National Convention: Foresters Together: Meeting Tomorrow's Challenges. Indianapolis, Indiana, November 7-9, 1993. pp. 351-356.

McDill, Marc E. 1993. Tree Planting for Energy Efficiency: Economic Analysis. A report to the Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources for the project entitled "Tree and Shrub Planting for Energy in Minnesota Communities Energy 3". 22 p.

McDill, Marc E. 1992. Linking Strategic, Tactical, and Operational Forest Planning Approaches: Problems and Opportunities in Minnesota. Proceedings of the 1992 SAF National Convention: An Evolving Tradition. Richmond, Virginia. October 26-28, 1992. pp. 376-381.

McDill, Marc E. 1992. Using DTRAN and IMPLAN to Assess the Relationship Between Forest Management and the Economy. Final Report to the USDA Forest Service for the project: "Feasibility of Linking DUALPLAN and IMPLAN in an Ecologic-Economic Model".

McDill, Marc E. 1991. Time, Space, and Uncertainty in Forest Economics. In, Proceedings of a Workshop: Ecological Economics: Its Implications for Forest Management and Research. Dennis Bradley and Per-Olav Nilsson (Eds.). Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Workshop held in St. Paul, Minnesota, April 2 - 6, 1990. pp. 124-136.

McDill, Marc E. 1989. Timber Supply in Dynamic General Equilibrium. Ph.D. Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. 242 p.

McDill, Marc E. 1986. Reforestation Incentives and the Economic Structure of the Charcoal Market in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Masters Thesis, North Carolina State University. 57 p.

McDill, Marc E., Kalyan Davuluri, and Jared Andre. 1996. Simulating Timber Supply by Optimizing Forest Management and Product Transportation with DTran and GISTran. Proceedings of SOFOR GIS: Southern Forestry GIS Conference. December 11-13, 1996 The Georgia Center for Continuing Education, Athens, GA. pp. 51-60.

McDill, Marc E., and Howard M. Hoganson. 1993. Modeling Spatial Price Relationships in Minnesota Stumpage Markets. Final Report to the Blandin Foundation. University of Minnesota School of Forest Resources, St. Paul, MN.

McDill, Marc E., and Howard M. Hoganson. 1993. Modeling Spatial Price Discrimination in Minnesota Stumpage Markets. Proceedings: Investing in Minnesota's Public Forests. October 6, 1993. Cloquet Forestry Center, University of Minnesota, Cloquet, MN. pp. 45-55.

McDill, Marc E., Laurence H. Reeves, and Howard M. Hoganson. 1993. A Yield Projection Comparison and Economic Analysis for Minnesota's Forest Covertypes. Final Report to the Blandin Foundation. University of Minnesota School of Forest Resources, St. Paul, MN.

McDill, Marc E., Denis Tucker, and Janis Braze. 1996. Forest Products Supply in the Western Gulf: Louisiana and Mississippi. In: Proceedings of the 35th LSU Forestry Symposium Growing Trees in a Greener World: Industrial Forestry in the 21st Century. Edited by Mason C. Carter. January 10, 1996. Louisiana State University School of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, Baton Rouge, LA. pp. 73- 87.

Rose, Dietmar W. and Marc E. McDill. 1995. Incorporating Non-commodity Considerations in Strategic Planning of Natural Resources. IUFRO XX World Congress, August 7, 1995. Tampere, Finland.

Tucker, Denis and Marc E. McDill. 1996. Current and Future Conditions of the Timber Resources of the Gulf South (Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas). Proceedings of the 1996 Annual Southern Forest Economics Workers (SOFEW) Annual Meeting. Gatlinburg, TN. March 28, 1996. 10 p.