Bijay Tamang

Bijay joined F4 Tech in April 2016 and is a professional forester with 17 years of experience focused on forest and wildlife conservation and management. In his role at F4 Tech, Bijay prepares forest inventory deliverables; supports forest inventory processes and data QA/QC; analyzes, interprets, manages, and summarizes forest inventory data; prepares reports; supports GIS applications, and forest inventory planning and deployment; and conducts forest growth and yield modeling. He is proficient in the use of the Remsoft Woodstock package, ArcGIS, and statistical packages (SAS and R). Through prior work as a project leader for Arborgen (six years), a post-doc at the University of Florida (one year), and an university research assistant in Nepal (five years), Bijay has gained experience working on phosphate-mine restoration projects using fast-growing trees, woody biomass/bioenergy projects, short rotation woody crops and tree improvement; proposed, designed, and implemented forest ecological, tree improvement, and wildlife research projects; analyzed and interpreted vegetation data; collaborated with multiple university research teams; and published findings in refereed scientific journals. He is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a volunteer reviewer of manuscripts submitted to multiple scientific journals: Ecological Engineering, Tropical Conservation Science, Agroforestry Systems, and the Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry, Energy and Fuels, and Bioenergy Research. Bijay has a B.Sc. in Biology and an M.Sc. in Biology/Ecology from Tribhuvan University (Nepal), and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Forest Resources and Conservation from the University of Florida.