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Current teaching responsibilities
Forest
biometrics (Masters level)
This is a masters level course in forest biometrics
for the universities of Joensuu and Helsinki. The course starts
with a forestry-oriented introduction to mathematical statistics.
Then we continue with introduction to linear models with examples
and exercises on forest data. The last part is an introduction to
linear mixed-effects models, again with applications and exercises
with forest data. Last time the course was held simultaneously in
Helsinki and Joensuu, using a video conference technicue.
See the course
homepage for lecture material and exercises.
Practical work of forest planning
This is a barchelor level field course about forest
planning. During the course, students prepare a tactical forest
plan for a real forest owner for the coming 10-20 years. The course
starts with inventory and contact with forest owner, and ends to
delivery of the final document (both the electroinical and paper
version) about the forest plan to the forest owner.
Theoretical
foundations of forest planning
This course covers the basic terminology and methodology
of forest planning, including basic definitions and history of forest
planning, planning methods for a single stand and planning methods
for a forest area. The main teacher is the professor in forest planning.
I organize the exercises together with the main teacher.
Methods and applications for multi-objective forest
planning
This course was formerly called "Integrated
forest planning".
Proseminar (B.Sc.)
I am organizing the proseminar group of 20-30 students
on forest measurements, planning and forest and wood technology.
Each seminar work is supervised by a specialist of the subject matter.
Earlier teaching responsibilities
Biometrics: R-statistics in forest sciences (Doctoral
level)
This course was held at University of Joensuu, Mekrijärvi
research station. The course was an one-week intensive course for
doctoral students from universities of Joensuu and Helsinki and
UMB, Norway. The course contents included basic mathematical statistics,
linear models, linear mixed-effects models and generalized linear
models. R-software was applied in examples and exercises. The course
will probably arranged another time in the future.
Download lecture
notes and material for exercises.
Teaching at the University of Helsinki
When I was acting professor in the university of
Helsinki, I teached courses Forest planning (MARV2), Field course
in forest planning (MARV3), Multi-attribute forest planning (MARV5/1)
and Decision support in practice (MARV5/2), and Forest biometrics
(MSUU13).
Supervision
Doctoral theses
- Md. Nurul Islam: The effect of inventory errors
on the quality of a forest plan (Univ. of Joensuu, together with
Mikko Kurttila, ongoing)
- Mir Md. Abdus Salam: Modelling the past growth
of willows using stem analysis (Univ. of Joensuu, together with
Paavo Pelkonen, ongoing)
- Vesa Leppänen: Remote sensing and Lidar.
(Univ of Joensuu, together with Timo Tokola and Matti Maltamo,
ongoing)
- In addition, I have participated the suprevision
of the following theses:
- Jouni Siipilehto: Modelling diameter distributions
(Univ of Helsinki, ongoing).
- Antti Mäkinen: Uncertainty in forest
simulators and forest planning systems (Univ of Helsinki,
completed in February, 2010).
- Hannu Salminen: The effect of temperature
on height growth of Scots pine in Northern Finland (Univ of
Helsinki, completed in November, 2009).
Completed masters theses
- Olga Ershova, 2010. Metsän arvioinnin matemaattinen
mallintaminen. (Univ. of Eastern Finland, Dept of Physics and
mathematics. Main supervisor Jukka Tuomela)
- Ilona Pietilä, 2009. Puuston kasvun ennustevirheiden
vaikutus metsävaratiedon käyttöikään
metsäsuunnittelun päätöksenteossa. (Univ of
Helsinki, together with Annika Kangas),
- Eeva Kaura, 2009: Pinus patulan tuotosennusteiden
tarkkuuden riippuvuus mallinnusaineiston koosta ja estimointitavasta
– Tapaus Tansania Sao Hill. (Univ of Helsinki, completed,
together with Annika Kangas),
- Md. Nurul Islam, 2007: The effect of inventory
errors on forest plan. (Univ of Joensuu, completed, together with
Mikko Kurttila)
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