Richard Stockton College of New Jersey is an undergraduate state institution. I have been involved in numerous white-cedar projects since 1988. Click below to see some of that research......

White-cedar regeneration experiments: These experiments which were started in 1990 are some of the longest and more complex silvicultural experiments to date. We will be measuring the sites for the 15th year data during 2005. We recently published some of the long term results (10 year data)- see references under Zimmermann.

Mill Creek sub-fossil cedar stand reconstruction: In 1999 I started to reconstruct a white-cedar forest unearthed during a wetlands mitigation in the Hackensack Meadowlands in northern New Jersey. The "forest" is in fact a stump field containing some of the largest and oldest white-cedar found to date.

Shading experiments: These experiments, started the spring of 2000, are investigating the effects of five light levels on white-cedar and red maple growth, architecture, and photosynthesis. We are now starting a new set of experiments in this area.

Miscellaneous experiments: We have cooperated with numerous individuals and  other institutions. Dr. Kathy Sedia (Biology Department, Richard Stockton College) and I are in the midst of flooding and salt tolerance experiments with white-cedar that have already yielded some interesting results, with implications for stand regeneration in areas where rising sea level and/or salt surges  from storms may be happening........