Department of Forestry
 

Claudia Cotton

Teaching Activities

Scientific Activities

  •  Oral Talks
    •  Cotton, CA, TR Fox, and SP Prisley.  2008.  Predicting and mapping forest productivity with GIS (Invited field presentation).  North American Forest Soils Conference, June.  Blacksburg, VA.
    • Cotton, CA and TR Fox.  2007.  A pilot study to predict upland hardwood forest site quality in the southern Appalachians.  Annual Meeting of the Soil Science Society of America, November.  New Orleans, LA.
    • Cotton, CA and CD Barton.  2007.  Growth response of two hardwood species on reclaimed mine soils in eastern Kentucky.  Annual Meeting of the Society of American Foresters, October.  Portland, OR.
  •  Poster Presentations
    • Cotton, CA, TR Fox, and SP Prisley.  2008.  A GIS-based land classification system for the southern Appalachians based on the environment.  Central Hardwoods Forest Conference, April.  Lafayette, IN.
  • Cotton, CA and CD Barton. 2005. Developing a method of site quality evaluation for yellow-poplar and white oak in the eastern Kentucky coal fields. The Thin Green Line Reforestation Conference (poster), Thunder Bay Ontario. July 2005.
  • Cotton, CA and CD Barton. 2006. Determining site quality for two Appalachian hardwoods for the evaluation of reforestation success on reclaimed minelands. Central Hardwoods Conference (poster), Knoxville, TN. February 2006.
  • Cotton, CA and CD Barton. 2006. Developing a method of site quality evaluation for yellow-poplar and white oak in the eastern Kentucky coal fields. ASMR Meeting (poster), St. Louis, MO. March 2006

Memberships

  • American Society of Mining and Reclamation
  • Society of American Foresters
  • Ecological Society of America
  • Soil Science Society of America
  • Forestry Graduate Student Association

Awards

  • 2007 - SSSA Best Paper Award for excellence in presentation of a paper at the 2007 National Meeting
  • 2006 - ASMR Memorial Scholarship
  • 2003 - Kentucky/Tennessee Society of American Foresters Outstanding Forestry Student Scholarship and Award