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Desi Zamudio

GBEM-Team Leader

   -Jeanne Chambers

 

EPR-Project Leader

   -Robin Tausch

 

 

The Book

   -Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems

 

GBEM-Field Tour

 

Employment

Collaborating Scientist

Soil Scientist

Ecology Team, Humboldt-Tioyabe National Forest

Projects:

A Demonstration Area on Ecosystem Response to Prescribed Burns in the Great Basin Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands

Publications: 

 

Blank, R.R., and D. C. Zamudio. 1998. The influence of wildfire on aqueous-extractable soil solutes in forested and wet meadow ecosystems along the eastern front of the Sierra-Nevada Range, California. International Wildland Fire 8(2): 79-85.

 

Chambers, J. C., R. R. Blank, D. C. Zamudio, and R. J. Tausch. 1999. Central Nevada riparian areas: Physical and chemical properties of meadow soils. Journal of Range Management 52:91-98.

 

Schultz, B.W., and D.C. Zamudio. 1998. Bridging the gap between rangeland management and rangeland research: the need for regular inclusion of synthetic review articles in the Journal of Range Management. Rangelands 20(5): 30-35.

 

Tausch, R.J., D.A. Charlet, D.A. Weixelman, and D.C. Zamudio. Patterns of ordination and classification instability resulting from changes in input data order. Journal of Vegetation Science 6: 897-902.

 

Weixelman, D.A., D. C. Zamudio, and K.A. Zamudio. 1996. Central Nevada Riparian Field Guide, R4-ECOL-96-01, USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Region, Ogden, Utah.

 

Weixelman, D.A., D. C. Zamudio, K.A. Zamudio, and R. J. Tausch. 1997. Classifying ecological types and evaluating site degradation in riparian areas. Journal of Range Management 50: 315-321.

 

Weixelman, D.A., D. C. Zamudio, and K.A. Zamudio. 1999. Eastern Sierra Nevada Riparian Field Guide, R4-ECOL-99-01, USDA Forest Service, Intermountain Region, Ogden, Utah.

 

Zamudio, D.C., D.A. Weixelman, and K.A. Zamudio. 1997. Favorable flows in select riparian ecological types in central Nevada. Proceedings: 5Th National Watershed Conference, National Watershed Coalition –Living in YOUR watershed, May 18-21, 1997. Reno, NV.

 

Education:

 

M.S., 1991, Hydrology/Hydrogeology, University of Nevada, Reno

 

B.S., 1979, Soil and Water Science, University of California, Davis

 

 

Professional Experience:

 

1989 to present – Soil Scientist, USDA Forest Service, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Sparks Reno, Nevada

 

1995 to present – Co-Leader, Ecology Team, Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Sparks, Nevada

 

1986-1987 -- Graduate Assistant, Range, Wildlife and Forestry, University of Nevada, Reno

 

1985 to 1986 – Hydrologist, USDI Bureau of Land Management, Ely District, Ely NV 

 

1982 to 1985 – Hydrologist and Ecology Team Leader, USDA Forest Service, Klamath National Forest, Somes Bar, California

 

1980 to 1982 – Soil Scientist, USDA Forest Service, Modoc National Forest, Alturas, California

 

 

Awards and Grants:

 

1986-1987 - Fellowship, University of Nevada, Reno for USDI Bureau of Land Management, Saval Rangeland Research Project, "Matching Riparian Subsections and Stream Types”

 

 

Professional Services:

 

Society Memberships:

Soil and Water Conservation Society, Society for Range Management, American Geophysical Union, Soil Science Society of America

 

Committee Memberships, reviews, etc.:

In last 5 years I have served as president Nevada Section Society for Range Management and Nevada Chapter Soil and Water Conservation, served on a National committee, reviewed manuscripts for 2 journals.

 

 

 
Address :

USDA Forest Service, Fremont National Forest

1301 South G Street
Lakeview, OR 97630

Phone: 541.947.5151


EMail : dzamudio@fs.fed.us

 

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