Bio:
Woodam Chung is an Assistant Professor of Forest
Operations in the Department of Forest Management at The University
of Montana. He was born in Seoul, South Korea, and received his
B.S. and M.S. in Forestry from Seoul National University, Korea.
After he spent two years in Indonesia working in Forestry and
Agriculture as an international volunteer, he came to Oregon and
received his Ph.D. in Forest Engineering from Oregon State University.
He teaches courses and conducts research in the fields of GIS,
forest roads, harvesting systems, and combinatorial optimization
techniques for forest planning. He has been active in developing
decision-support systems for forest transportation planning, forest
operations design, and spatially-constrained harvest scheduling.
He played a major role in the development of NETWORK2000, which
is designed for optimizing fixed and variable cost transportation
problems. The program has been used by the USDA Forest Service,
state agencies, industry, and researchers in the United States
and other countries including Chile and South Africa.
Education:
PhD, Forest Engineering, Oregon State University,
2002
MS, Forestry, Seoul National University, Korea 1995
BS, Forestry, Seoul National University, Korea 1993
Research Interests:
Forest operations
Transportation planning
Harvest scheduling
GIS applications in forestry
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