John W. Coulston
Project Leader/Supervisory Research Forester
1710 Research Center Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24060-6349
United States
Blacksburg, VA 24060-6349
United States
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540-231-4674
Current Research
Developing and applying quantitative tools and techniques to assess resource conditions and characteristics across broad spatial scales.Bildung
- North Carolina State University, Ph.D., Forest Ecology, 2004
- North Carolina State University, M.S., Forest Biometrics, 1999
- North Carolina State University, B.S., Forest Management, 1996
Other Publications
- Kurt Riitters, John W. Coulston, Christopher Mihiar, Evan B. Brooks, Eric J. Greenfield, Mark D. Nelson, Grant M. Domke, Miranda H. Mockrin, David J. Lewis, David J. Nowak. 2023. Land Resources
- Jennifer K. Costanza, Frank H. Koch, Matt Reeves, Kevin M. Potter, Karen Schleeweis, Kurt Riitters, Sarah M. Anderson, Evan B. Brooks, John W. Coulston, Linda A. Joyce, Prakash Nepal, Benjamin Poulter, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, J. Morgan Varner, David M. Walker. 2023. Disturbances to Forests and Rangelands
- John W. Coulston, Evan B. Brooks, Brett J. Butler, Jennifer K. Costanza, David M. Walker, Grant M. Domke, Jesse Caputo, Marla Markowski-Lindsay, Emma M. Sass, Brian F. Walters, Jinggang Guo. 2023. Forest Resources
- Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, Courtney L. Giebink, Eric J. Greenfield, James E. Smith, Michael C. Nichols, Jon A. Knott, Stephen M. Ogle, John W. Coulston, John Steller. 2023. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, urban trees, and harvested wood products in the United States, 1990-2021
- Kurt Riitters, Jennifer K. Costanza, John W. Coulston, Peter Vogt, Karen Schleeweis. 2023. Interpreting image texture metrics applied to landscape gradient data
- James A. Westfall, John W. Coulston, Andrew N. Gray, John D. Shaw, Philip J. Radtke, David M. Walker, Aaron R. Weiskittel, David W. MacFarlane, David L.R. Affleck, Dehai Zhao, Hailemariam Temesgen, Krishna P. Poudel, Jereme M. Frank, Stephen P. Prisley, Yingfang Wang, Andrew J. Sánchez Meador, David Auty, Grant M. Domke. 2024. A national-scale tree volume, biomass, and carbon modeling system for the United States
- Frank H. Koch, John Coulston. 2022. Drought and moisture surplus patterns in the conterminous United States: 2020, 2018–2020, and 2016–2020
- James A. Westfall, John W. Coulston. 2022. Estimating change in annual timber products output using a stratified sampling with certainty design
- Dekker Ehlers, Chao Wang, John Coulston, Yulong Zhang, Tamlin Pavelsky, Elizabeth Frankenberg, Curtis Woodcock, Conghe Song. 2022. Mapping Forest Aboveground Biomass Using Multisource Remotely Sensed Data
- Qianqian Cao, Garret T. Dettmann, Philip J. Radtke, John W. Coulston, Jill Derwin, Valerie A. Thomas, Harold E. Burkhart, Randolph H. Wynne. 2022. Increased Precision in County-Level Volume Estimates in the United States National Forest Inventory With Area-Level Small Area Estimation
- Garret T. Dettmann, Philip J. Radtke, John W. Coulston, P. Corey Green, Barry T. Wilson, Gretchen G. Moisen. 2022. Review and Synthesis of Estimation Strategies to Meet Small Area Needs in Forest Inventory
- Dehai Zhao, Thomas B. Lynch, James A. Westfall, John W. Coulston. 2022. Additional biomass estimation alternatives: nonlinear two- and three-stage least squares and full information maximum likelihood for slash pine
- J.A. Westfall, J.W. Coulston, G.G. Moisen, H.-E Andersen. 2022. Sampling and estimation documentation for the Enhanced Forest Inventory and Analysis Program: 2022
- Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David J. Nowak, Eric J. Greenfield, James E..Smith, Michael C. Nichols, Stephen M. Ogle, John W. Coulston, Tom C. Wirth. 2022. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, urban trees, and harvested wood products in the United States, 1990–2020
- John Coulston, P Corey Green, Philip Radtke, Stephen Prisley, Evan Brooks, Valerie Thomas, Randolph Wynne, Harold E. Burkhart. 2021. Enhancing the precision of broad-scale forestland removals estimates with small area estimation techniques
- Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David J. Nowak, James Smith, Michael C. Nichols, Stephen M. Ogle, J.W. Coulston, T.C. Wirth. 2021. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, and urban trees in the United States, 1990–2019
- Zhengyang Hou, Grant M. Domke, Matthew B. Russell, John W. Coulston, Mark D. Nelson, Qing Xu, Ronald E. McRoberts. 2021. Updating annual state- and county-level forest inventory estimates with data assimilation and FIA data
- Frank H. Koch, John W. Coulston. 2021. Chapter 4 - Spatial patterns of drought and moisture surplus in the conterminous United States: 2019, and between 2017 to 2019, and 2015 to 2019
- Yulong Zhang, Conghe Song, Taehee Hwang, Kimberly Novick, John W. Coulston, James Vose, Matthew P. Dannenberg, Christopher R. Hakkenberg, Jiafu Mao, Curtis E. Woodcock. 2021. Land cover change-induced decline in terrestrial gross primary production over the conterminous United States from 2001 to 2016
- James A. Westfall, Andrew J. Lister, John W. Coulston, Ronald E. McRoberts. 2021. Realized and potential efficiency for post-stratified estimation in a national forest inventory
- Evan B. Brooks, John W. Coulston, Kurt H. Riitters, David N. Wear. 2020. Using a hybrid demand-allocation algorithm to enable distributional analysis of land use change patterns
- Jill M. Derwin, Valerie A. Thomas, Randolph H. Wynne, John W. Coulston, Greg C. Liknes, Stacie Bender, Christine E. Blinn, Evan B. Brooks, Bonnie Ruefenacht, Robert Benton, Mark V Finco, Kevin Megown. 2020. Estimating tree canopy cover using harmonic regression coefficients derived from multitemporal Landsat data
- P Corey Green, Harold Burkhart, John Coulston, Philip Radtke, Valerie A. Thomas. 2020. Auxiliary information resolution effects on small area estimation in plantation forest inventory
- Dehai Zhao, Bronson P. Bullock, Cristian R. Montes, Mingliang Wang, James Westfall, John W. Coulston. 2020. Long-term dynamics of loblolly pine crown structure and aboveground net primary production as affected by site quality, planting density and cultural intensity
- John W. Coulston, Christopher B. Edgar, Jim Westfall, Marcus E. Taylor. 2020. Estimation of forest disturbance from retrospective observations in a broad-scale inventory
- Robert G. Haight, Randall Bluffstone, Jeffrey D. Kline, John W. Coulston, David N. Wear, Kate Zook. 2020. Estimating the Present Value of Carbon Sequestration in U.S. Forests, 2015–2050, for Evaluating Federal Climate Change Mitigation Policies
- Mark D. Nelson, Kurt H. Riitters, John W. Coulston, Grant M. Domke, Eric J. Greenfield, Linda L. Langner, David J. Nowak, Claire B. O'Dea, Sonja N. Oswalt, Matthew C. Reeves, David N. Wear. 2020. Defining the United States land base: a technical document supporting the USDA Forest Service 2020 RPA assessment
- Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David J. Nowak, James Smith, Stephen M. Ogle, J.W. Coulston, T.C. Wirth. 2020. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, and urban trees in the United States, 1990-2018
- Frank H. Koch, John W. Coulston. 2020. Chapter 4 - Drought and moisture surplus patterns in the conterminous United States: 2018, 2016– 2018, and 2014–2018
- Matthew F. Winn, Larry A. Royer, James W. Bentley, Ronald J. Piva, Todd A. Morgan, Erik C. Berg, John W. Coulston. 2020. Timber products monitoring: unit of measure conversion factors for roundwood receiving facilities
- D. E. Gorelick, L. Lin, H. B. Zeff, Y. Kim, J. M. Vose, J. W. Coulston, D. N. Wear, L. E. Band, P. M. Reed, G. W. Characklis. 2020. Accounting for adaptive water supply management when quantifying climate and land cover change vulnerability
- P Corey Green, Harold Burkhart, John Coulston, Philip J. Radtke. 2019. A novel application of small area estimation in loblolly pine forest inventory
- Dehai Zhao, James Westfall, John W. Coulston, Thomas B. Lynch, Bronson P. Bullock, Cristian R. Montes. 2019. Additive biomass equations for slash pine trees: comparing three modeling approaches
- Jereme Frank, Aaron Weiskittel, David Walker, James A. Westfall, Philip J. Radtke, David L.R. Affleck, John Coulston, David W. MacFarlane. 2019. Gaps in available data for modeling tree biomass in the United States
- Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David J. Nowak, James Smith, Stephen M. Ogle, John W. Coulston. 2019. Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land and urban trees in the United States, 1990-2017
- David N. Wear, John W. Coulston. 2019. Specifying forest sector models for forest carbon projections
- Frank H. Koch, Coulton. John W. 2019. Chapter 4 - Drought and moisture surplus patterns in the conterminous United States: 2017, 2015-2017, and 2013-2017
- Ranjith Gopalakrishnan, Jobriath Kauffman, Matthew Fagan, John Coulston, Valerie Thomas, Randolph Wynne, Thomas Fox, Valquiria Quirino. 2019. Creating landscape-scale site index maps for the southeastern US is possible with airborne LiDAR and Landsat imagery
- Jennifer K. Costanza, Don Faber-Langendoen, John W. Coulston, David N. Wear. 2018. Classifying forest inventory data into species-based forest community types at broad extents: exploring tradeoffs among supervised and unsupervised approaches
- Frank H. Koch, John W. Coulston. 2018. Chapter 4 - Moisture deficit and surplus in the conterminous United States for three time windows: 2016, 2014-2016, and 2012-2016
- Taek Joo Kim, David N. Wear, John Coulston, Ruhong Li. 2018. Forest land use responses to wood product markets
- Kelly M. Suttles, Nitin K. Singh, James M. Vose, Katherine L. Martin, Ryan E. Emanuel, John W. Coulston, Sheila M. Saia, Michael T. Crump. 2018. Assessment of hydrologic vulnerability to urbanization and climate change in a rapidly changing watershed in the Southeast U.S.
- Dehai Zhao, Thomas Lynch, James Westfall, John Coulston, Michael Kane, David E. Adams. 2018. Compatibility, development, and estimation of taper and volume equation systems
- John W. Coulston, James A. Westfall, David N. Wear, Christopher B. Edgar, Steven P. Prisley, Thomas B. Treiman, Robert C. Abt, W. Brad Smith. 2018. Annual monitoring of US timber production: rationale and design
- G. Domke, C. A. Williams, R. Birdsey, J. Coulston, A. Finzi, C. Gough, B. Haight, J. Hicke, M. Janowiak, B. de Jong, W. A. Kurz, M. Lucash, S. Ogle, M. Olguín-Álvarez, Y. Pan, M. Skutsch, C. Smyth, C. Swanston, P. Templer, D. Wear, C. W. Woodall. 2018. Chapter 9: Forests
- Katherine L. Martin, Taehee Hwang, James M. Vose, John W. Coulston, David N. Wear, Brian Miles, Lawrence E. Band. 2017. Watershed impacts of climate and land use changes depend on magnitude and land use context
- Jennifer K. Costanza, John W. Coulston, David N. Wear. 2017. An empirical, hierarchical typology of tree species assemblages for assessing forest dynamics under global change scenarios
- R. Bluffstone, J. Coulston, R.G. Haight, J. Kline, S. Polasky, D.N. Wear, K. Zook. 2017. Estimated values of carbon sequestration resulting from forest management scenarios
- Philip Radtke, David Walker, Jereme Frank, Aaron Weiskittel, Clara DeYoung, David MacFarlane, Grant Domke, Christopher Woodall, John Coulston, James Westfall. 2017. Improved accuracy of aboveground biomass and carbon estimates for live trees in forests of the eastern United States
- John W. Coulston, Christine E. Blinn, Valerie A. Thomas, Randolph H. Wynne. 2016. Approximating prediction uncertainty for random forest regression models
- Evan B. Brooks, John W. Coulston, Randolph H. Wynne, Valerie A. Thomas. 2016. Improving the precision of dynamic forest parameter estimates using Landsat
- Frank H. Koch, John Coulston. 2016. Chapter 4: 1-Year (2014 , 3-Year (2012–2014 ) , and 5-Year (2010–2014) Maps of Drought and Moisture Surplus for the Conterminous United States
- John W. Coulston, David N. Wear, James M. Vose. 2015. Complex forest dynamics indicate potential for slowing carbon accumulation in the southeastern United States
- Aaron R. Weiskittel, David W. MacFarlane, Philip J. Radtke, David L.R. Affleck, Hailemariam Temesgen, Christopher W. Woodall, James A. Westfall, John W. Coulston. 2015. A call to improve methods for estimating tree biomass for regional and national assessments
- Elizabeth A. Freeman, Gretchen G. Moisen, John W. Coulston, Barry T. (Ty) Wilson. 2015. Random forests and stochastic gradient boosting for predicting tree canopy cover: Comparing tuning processes and model performance
- Dave Wear, John W. Coulston. 2015. From sink to source: Regional variation in U.S. forest carbon futures
- Christopher W. Woodall, John W. Coulston, Grant M. Domke, Brian F. Walters, David N. Wear, James E. Smith, Hans-Erik Andersen, Brian J. Clough, Warren B. Cohen, Douglas M. Griffith, Stephen C. Hagen, Ian S. Hanou, Michael C. Nichols, Charles H. (Hobie) Perry, Matthew B. Russell, Jim Westfall, Barry T. (Ty) Wilson. 2015. The U.S. forest carbon accounting framework: stocks and stock change, 1990-2016
- Christopher W. Woodall, Brian F. Walters, John Coulston, A.W. D’Amato, Grant M. Domke, M.B. Russell, Paul Sowers. 2015. Monitoring network confirms land use change is a substantial component of the forest carbon sink in the eastern United States
- Grant M. Domke, John W. Coulston, Christopher W. Woodall. 2015. The new forest carbon accounting framework for the United States
- John M. Zobel, John W. Coulston. 2015. Determining forest carbon stock losses due to wildfire disturbance in the Western United States
- John Coulston, David Wear, Jim Vose. 2015. Observed and projected C change in the Southeastern US
- Bonnie Ruefenacht, Robert Benton, Vicky Johnson, Tanushree Biswas, Craig Baker, Mark Finco, Kevin Megown, John Coulston, Ken Winterberger, Mark Riley. 2015. Forest service contributions to the national land cover database (NLCD): Tree Canopy Cover Production
- Robert Benton, Bonnie Ruefenacht, Vicky Johnson, Tanushree Biswas, Craig Baker, Mark Finco, Kevin Megown, John Coulston, Ken Winterberger, Mark Riley. 2015. NLCD tree canopy cover (TCC) maps of the contiguous United States and coastal Alaska
- Francis Roesch, John Coulston, Paul Van Deusen, Rafal Podlaski. 2015. Evaluation of image-assisted forest monitoring: A simulation
- Frank H. Koch, William D. Smith, John W. Coulston. 2015. Chapter 4: Drought Patterns in the Conterminous United States, 2012
- John W. Coulston, Greg Reams, Dave N. Wear, C. Kenneth Brewer. 2014. An analysis of forest land use, forest land cover, and change at policy-relevant scales
- James Wickham, Collin Homer, James Vogelmann, Alexa McKerrow, Rick Mueler, Nate Herold, John Coulston. 2014. The multi-resolution land characteristics (MRLC) consortium–20 years of development and integration of USA national land cover data
- Frank H. Koch, William D. Smith, John W. Coulston. 2014. Chapter4 - Drought patterns in the conterminous United States and Hawaii.
- John W. Coulston, Dennis M. Jacobs, Chris R. King, Ivey C. Elmore. 2013. The influence of multi-season imagery on models of canopy cover: A case study
- James A. Westfall, Scott A. Pugh, John W. Coulston. 2013. Conducting tests for statistically significant differences using forest inventory data
- Frank H. Koch, William D. Smith, John W. Coulston. 2013. An improved method for standardized mapping of drought conditions
- Robert Huggett, David N. Wear, Ruhong Li, John Coulston, Shan Liu. 2013. Forecasts of forest conditions
- James H. Miller, Dawn Lemke, John Coulston. 2013. The invasion of southern forests by nonnative plants: current and future occupation, with impacts, management strategies, and mitigation approaches
- Frank H. Koch, William D. Smith, John W. Coulston. 2013. Recent drought conditions in the Conterminous United States
- Kurt H. Riitters, John W. Coulston. 2013. Fragmentation of eastern United States forest types
- Paul L. Patterson, John W. Coulston, Francis A. Roesch, James A. Westfall, Andrew D. Hill. 2012. A primer of nonresponse in the US Forest Inventory and Analysis program
- John W. Coulston, Gretchen G. Moisen, Barry T. Wilson, Mark V. Finco, Warren B. Cohen, C. Kenneth Brewer. 2012. Modeling percent tree canopy cover: a pilot study
- Gretchen G. Moisen, John W. Coulston, Barry T. Wilson, Warren B. Cohen, Mark V. Finco. 2012. Choosing appropriate subpopulations for modeling tree canopy cover nationwide
- John Tipton, Gretchen Moisen, Paul Patterson, Thomas A. Jackson, John Coulston. 2012. Sampling intensity and normalizations: Exploring cost-driving factors in nationwide mapping of tree canopy cover
- Christopher W. Woodall, James E. Smith, Grant M. Domke, Sean P. Healey, John W. Coulston, Andrew N. Gray. 2012. Technical aspects of the forest carbon inventory of the United States: recent past and near future
- John W. Coulston, Kellen Nelson, Christopher W. Woodall, David Meriwether, Gregory A. Reams. 2012. The climate change performance scorecard and carbon estimates for national forest
- Dawn Lemke, John W. Coulston, Philip Hulme, Clint Paterson, Jennifer A. Brown. 2012. Invasive potential of invasive plants in the forest of the southern region, United States
- Frank H. Koch, John W. Coulston, William D. Smith. 2012. Mapping drought conditions using multi-year windows
- Francis Roesch, John Coulston, Andrew D. Hill. 2012. Statistical properties of alternative national forest inventory area estimators
- Frank H. Koch, John W. Coulston, William D. Smith. 2012. High-Resolution Mapping of Drought Conditions
- Christopher William Woodall, Michael C. Amacher, William A. Bechtold, John W. Coulston, Sarah Dr.Jovan, Charles H. Perry, KaDonna C. Randolph, Beth K. Schulz, Gretchen C. Smith, Susan Will-Wolf. 2011. Status and future of the forest health indicators program of the USA
- James A. Westfall, Paul L. Patterson, John W. Coulston. 2011. Post-stratified estimation: with-in strata and total sample size recommendations
- Kurt Riitters, John Coulston, James Wickham. 2011. Fragmentation of forest communities in the eastern United States
- John W. Coulston. 2011. Modeling ozone bioindicator injury with microscale and landscape-scale explanatory variables: A logistic regression approach
- Christopher W. Woodall, Barbara L. Conkling, Michael C. Amacher, John W. Coulston, Sarah Dr.Jovan, Charles H. Perry, Beth Schulz, Gretchen C. Smith, Susan Will Wolf. 2010. The Forest Inventory and Analysis Database Version 4.0: Database Description and Users Manual for Phase 3
- Frank H. Koch, John W. Coulston. 2010. Modeling current climate conditions for forest pest risk assessment
- Christopher M. Oswalt, Sonja N. Oswalt, Tony G. Johnson, James L. Chamberlain, KaDonna C. Randolph, John W. Coulston. 2009. Tennessee's Forests, 2004
- Sonja N. Oswalt, Tony G. Johnson, John W. Coulston, Christopher M. Oswalt. 2009. Mississippi's forests, 2006
- Sonja Oswalt, Chengquan Huang, Hua Shi, James Vogelmann, Zhiliang Zhu, Samuel N. Goward, John Coulston. 2009. Integrating Landsat-derived disturbance maps with FIA inventory data: Applications for state-Level forest resource assessments
- Stephen P. Prisley, Huei-Jin Wang, Philip J Radtke, John Coulston. 2009. Combining FIA plot data with topographic variables: Are precise locations needed?
- Joseph M. McCollum, Dale Gormanson, John Coulston. 2009. Correct county areas with sidebars for Virginia
- Anita K. Rose, John W. Coulston. 2009. Ozone injury across the Southern United States, 2002–06
- John W. Coulston. 2009. Drought
- John W. Coulston. 2009. Air pollution: Tropospheric ozone, and wet deposition of sulfate and inorganic nitrogen
- John W. Couston. 2009. Insects and diseases
- Mark J. Ambrose, Barbara L. Conkling, Kurt H. Riitters, John W. Coulston. 2008. The forest health monitoring national technical reports: examples of analyses and results from 2001-2004
- John W. Coulston, Frank H. Koch, William D. Smith, Frank J. Sapio. 2008. Invasive forest pest surveillance: survey development and reliability
- John Coulston. 2008. Forest inventory and stratified estimation: a cautionary note
- Sally J. Campbell, Ron Wanek, John W. Coulston. 2007. Ozone injury in west coast forests: 6 years of monitoring.
- John W. Coulston. 2007. Drought occurence
- John W. Coulston. 2007. Fire occurence (2004)
- John W. Coulston, Mark J. Ambrose. 2007. Ozone bioindicator
- John W. Coulston. 2007. Insect and disease activity (2003)
- John W. Coulston, Kurt H. Riitters, Ronald E. McRoberts, William D. Smith. 2006. True versus perturbed forest inventory plot locations for modeling: a simulation study
- Ronald E. McRoberts, Geoffrey R. Holden, Mark D. Nelson, Greg C. Liknes, Warren K. Moser, Andrew J. Lister, Susan L. King, Elizabeth B. LaPoint, John W. Coulston, W. Brad Smith, Gregory A. Reams. 2005. Estimating and circumventing the effects of perturbing and swapping inventory plot locations
- Kurt H. Riitters, John W. Coulston. 2005. Environmental assessment hot spots of perforated forest in the eastern United States
- John W. Coulston, Kurt H. Riitters. 2005. Preserving biodiversity under current and future climates: a case study
- Barbara L. Conkling, John W. Coulston, Mark J. Ambrose. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2001 national technical report
- John W. Coulston, Mark J. Ambrose, Kurt H. Riitters, Barbara L. Conkling. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2002 national technical report
- John W. Coulston, Mark J. Ambrose, Kurt H. Riitters, Barbara L. Conkling. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2004 national technical report
- John W. Coulston, Mark J. Ambrose, Kurt H. Riitters, Barbara L. Conkling, William D. Smith. 2005. Forest health monitoring: 2003 national technical report
- John W. Coulston, Kurt H. Riitters, Grethchen C. Smith. 2004. A preliminary assessment of the Montréal process indicators of air pollution for the United States
- Kurt H. Riitters, James D. Wickham, John W. Coulston. 2004. A preliminary assessment of Montreal process indicators of forest fragmentation for the United States
- Kurt H. Riitters, James Wickham, John Coulston. 2004. Use of Road Maps in National Assessments of Forest Fragmentation in the United States
- Kurt H. Riitters, John W. Coulston, James D. Wickham. 2003. Localizing National Fragmentation Statistics with Forest Type Maps
- John W. Coulston, Kurt H. Riitters. 2003. Geographic analysis of forest health indicators using spatial scan statistics
- John W. Coulston, Gretchen C. Smith, William D. Smith. 2003. Regional Assessment of Ozone Sensitive Tree Species Using Bioindicator Plants
- Kurt H. Riitters, James D. Wickham, Robert V. O'Neill, K. Bruce Jones, Elizabeth R. Smith, John W. Coulston, Timothy G. Wade, Jonathan H. Smith. 2002. Fragmentation of Continental United States Forests
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