Graduate Student Profile: Andy Horcher

Career & Academic Interests:

Harvesting Systems and Equipment Development

Research Project Title & Description:

Improving Helicopter Yarding Analysis with On-Board GPS; Trainee-Pilots, Flight Distance, and Impacts of Canopy Cover.

Advisor* & Committee:

• Dr. Rien Visser *, Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, 228 Cheatham Hall-0324, Blacksburg, VA 24061
• Robert Rummer, USFS, SRS, Operations
• Dr. Robert Shaffer, Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, 228 Cheatham Hall-0324 Blacksburg, VA 24061
• Dr. Stephen Prisley, Department of Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, 319 Cheatham Hall-0324, Blacksburg, VA 24061
• Dr. Richard Oderwald, College of Natural Resources, 138 Cheatham Hall-0324, Blacksburg, VA 24061
  

Contact Information

US Department of Agriculture
Forest Service; San Dimas Technology & Development Center
444 E. Bonita Avenue
San Dimas, CA 97773
ahorcher@fs.fed.us