Education and Certificates

M.S. Rangeland Ecology & Management, Oregon State University, 2006

B.S. Rangeland Ecology & Management, Texas A&M University, 2003

Experience
Ed joined the CNRIT team in October 2007.  He has 10 years field sampling experience in 7 states.  Ed has expertise in plant identification, field sampling methods, Phygrow modeling, and ArcMap.  He has worked on the BRASS, FRAMS, Phygrow, Ft Hood, Afghanistan PEACE, and Forest Service projects at CNRIT.  Ed has been a member of the Society for Range Management since 1997, and has served as co-chair of the Student Conclave sub-committee within the society since 2007.  He is also a member of the Ecological Society of America, Soil & Water Conservation Society, and International Association of Wildland Fire.

Interests
In his spare time, Ed enjoys hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, skiing, X-Box, and road trips.  He likes college football and tries to attend all Aggie home games.  While a student at Texas A&M, Ed was a member of the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band and the Corps of Cadets.  At Oregon State, he coached the intercollegiate Range Plant Identification Team, and was an unofficial advisor to the Range Club.

Technical Skills
ArcView, ArcPad, SAS, SigmaPlot, Microsoft Office, Photoshop

Peer-Reviewed Publications
Rhodes, E.C., J.D. Bates, R. Sharp and K. Davies (In-press). Fire effects on cover and dietary resources of sage-grouse habitat. Journal of Wildlife Management.

Bates, J.D., E.C. Rhodes, K.W. Davies, and R. Sharp. 2009. Post-fire succession in big sagebrush steppe with livestock grazing. Rangeland Ecology and Management 62:98-110.

Conference Proceedings

Rhodes, E.C., D. Tolleson, W. Shaw, J. Kava, and T. Brown. 2010. An enhanced quadrat frequency method for PHYGROW modeling of non-forested areas. Society for Range Management 63rd Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

Tolleson, D., J. Kava, T. Brown, E. Rhodes, W. Shaw, R. Conner, and W. Hamilton. 2010. Validation of the Phytomass Growth (Phygrow) model to predict fire fuel or forage standing crop on Arizona rangelands. Society for Range Management 63rd Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.

Jones, J.S., W. Shaw, E.C. Rhodes, M.F. Morrow, T. Brown, R.L. Naylor, W. Hamilton, and R. Conner. 2009. Using the Burning Risk Advisory Support System (BRASS) to assess fire effects in grasslands. Association for Fire Ecology International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Savannah, GA.

Rhodes, E.C., D. Tolleson, W. Shaw, E. Twombly, J. Kava and T. Brown. 2009. Comparing herbaceous vegetation sampling methods on the Coconino National Forest, AZ, USA. Society for Range Management 62nd Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.

Ansley, R.J., R.L. Stanford, and E.C. Rhodes. 2007. Biofuels from a woody invader in grasslands, mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa). Ecological Society of America 92nd Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA.

Rhodes, E.C. and J. Bates. 2007. Prescribed fire effects on understory components in a Wyoming big sagebrush community. Society for Range Management 60th Annual Meeting, Reno, NV.

Bates, J., E. Rhodes and K. Davies. 2007. Prescribed burning impacts on sage grouse dietary resources in eastern Oregon. Society for Range Management 60th Annual Meeting, Reno, NV.

Rhodes, E. and J. Bates. 2006. Sampling species richness in a Wyoming big sagebrush community. Society for Range Management 59th Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Other Publications

Bates, J. E. Rhodes, K.W. Davies, and R.N. Sharp. 2007. Grazing after fire in sagebrush rangeland. pg32-41. In: Davies, K.W. and A.M. Nafus (eds). Sagebrush Steppe-Research Progress Report 2007. Eastern Oregon Agriculutural Research Center, USDA Agricultural Research Service. Burns, OR.

Rhodes, E.C., J.D. Bates and R.N. Sharp. 2007. Fire effects on cover and dietary resources of sage-grouse habitat. pg53-63. In: Davies, K.W. and A.M. Nafus (eds). Sagebrush Steppe-Research Progress Report 2007. Eastern Oregon Agriculutural Research Center, USDA Agricultural Research Service. Burns, OR.

Thesis
Rhodes, E.C. 2006. Prescribed fire effects on vegetation and arthropod dynamics and sampling techniques in a Wyoming big sagebrush community. MS Thesis. Department of Rangeland Ecology and Management. Oregon State University. 129pp.