PERSONAL DATA:

Oscar Pablo García, born 26 Agust 1945 at Viña del Mar, Chile. New Zealand and Spain citizenships. Married, one 28 years-old son.

Work address: University of Northern British Columbia, 3333 University Way, Prince George, B. C., Canada V2N 4Z9. Telephone +1 (250) 960-5004. Fax +1 (250) 960-5538.
Home address: 138-6807 Westgate Avenue, Prince George, B. C., Canada V2N 5T8. Telephone +1 (250) 964-9221.
E-mail: garcia@unbc.ca. URL: www.unbc.ca/forestry.

Languages: Fluent in English and Spanish. Reads/understands French, Portuguese, Italian.

MAIN STUDIES AND DEGREES:

Escuela de Ingeniería Forestal (School of Forestry), University of Chile. 1963-1967.
Graduated as Ingeniero Forestal , 1968.

Mathematical Statistics and Operations Research, Centro Interamericano de Enseñanza de Estadística (CIENES) and University of Chile. 1971-1972. Advanced Term in M.S., May-August 1972.
Master of Science (M. Sc.) in Mathematical Statistics & Operations Research, 1972.

School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia, U.S.A.  March 1974 to March 1976.
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph..) in Forest Resources. 1976.

POSITIONS HELD:

Staff scientist at Instituto Forestal (INFOR, the Chilean forestry research institute, Santiago). January 1969 - March 1971. On leave at CIENES from April 1971 to August 1972.

Head of the Forest Management Section, INFOR. August 1972 to January 1974.
Head of the Computing and Mathematical Statistics Section. December 1973 to January 1974.

Scientist (Forest Mensuration and Management Systems), Forest Research Institute, New Zealand. March 1976 to June 1992.

Technical Director for FONDEF/INFOR eucalypt biometrics and modelling project. Instituto Forestal, Santiago, Chile. September 1992 to September 1995 (based in Valdivia from October 1993).

Profesor Titular (Full Professor). Chair of Forest Mensuration. Facultad de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Austral de Chile. November 1993 - September 1996 (on leave the last year.)

Visiting Professor of Forest Biometrics. École Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts (ENGREF), Nancy, France. October 1995 to September 1996.

Guest Professor (Gaesteprofessor), under grant from the Danish Research Academy. The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (KVL), Unit of Forestry, Copenhagen, Denmark. September 1996 to March 1997.

Research Professor (Forskningsprofessor.) The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (KVL), Unit of Forestry, Copenhagen, Denmark. March 1997 to September 1997.

Guest Professor. E. T. S. de Ingenieros de Montes, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. September 1997 to September 1998.

Researcher for the Xunta de Galicia and University of Santiago de Compostela, stationed at the Forestry Research Center of Lourizán. September 1998 to March 2000.

Professor, FRBC / West Fraser Endowed Chair in Forest Growth and Yield. University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, B. C., Canada. Since April 2000.

OTHER:

Invited as keynote speaker to:
- ``Workshop on Automatic Differentiation of Algorithms'', Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. January 1991.
- IUFRO Symposium ``Integrated Forest Management Information Systems'', Tsukuba, Japan. October 1991.
- ``International Symposium on System Analysis and Management Decisions in Forestry'', Valdivia, Chile. March 1993.
- IUFRO Conference ``Advancement in Forest Inventory and Forest Management Sciences'', Seoul, Korea. September 1993.
- IUFRO Conference ``Minimum Data Requirements for Sustainable Forest Management'', Stellenbosch, South Africa. Nov. 1994.

Invited lectures abroad:
- Universities of Tokyo, Utsunomiya, and Mie. Japan, October 1991.
- Escuela T. S. de Ingenieros de Montes, and Facultad de Informática. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, July 1993.
- Dept. of Systems Theory, Econometrics and Operations Research, Technical University of Vienna, Austria, April 1996.

Nominated for the IUFRO Scientific Achievement Award, 1986.

Ex-Chairman, IUFRO Working Party 4.04.06 ``Planning and Economics of Fast-growing Plantation Forests'', 1990-2000.

Associate Editor for the Canadian Journal of Forestry Research , 1993-1998. Member of the editorial boards of Forest Ecology and Management, Bosque, and Revista de Investigación Agraria.

Nominated as ``Research Pioneer'' in the Production Forestry category for the New Zealand Forest Research Institute 50th Jubilee Awards, April 1997.

SOME PUBLICATIONS:

A stochastic differential equation model for the height growth of forest stands. Biometrics 39, 1059-1072. 1983.

New class of growth models for even-aged stands: Pinus radiata in Golden Downs Forest. New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science 14, 65-88. 1984.

SEESAW, a visual sawing simulator - Part II: The SEESAW computer program. In: Kininmonth, J. A. (comp), Proceedings of Conversion Planning Conference. Ministry of Forestry, FRI Bulletin No. 128. 1987.

Linear Programming and related approaches in Forest Planning. New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science 20, 307-331. 1990.

Growth of thinned and pruned stands. In: James, R.N. and Tarlton, G.L. (eds.) New Approaches to Spacing and Thinning in Plantation Forestry: Proceedings of a IUFRO Symposium. Ministry of Forestry, FRI Bulletin No. 151. 1990.

A system for the differentiation of Fortran code and an application to parameter estimation in forest growth models. Ch. 27 in: Griewank, A. and Corliss, G. F. (eds.) Automatic Differentiation of Algorithms: Theory, Implementation, and Application. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. 1991.

What is a diameter distribution? In: Minowa, M. and Tsuyuki, S. (eds.) Proceedings of the Symposium on Integrated Forest Management Information Systems. Japan Society of Forest Planning Press. 1992.

Sampling for tree-ring analysis. In: Wood, G. and Turner, B. (eds.) Integrating Forest Information Over Space and Time, Proceedings of the International IUFRO Conference. ANUTECH Pty Ltd, Canberra, Australia. 1992.

The state-space approach in growth modelling. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 24, 1894-1903. 1994.

Easy evaluation of establishment treatments . In: Klemperer, W. D. (ed.) Proceedings of the S4.04 Meetings on Forest Management Planning and Managerial Economics, IUFRO 20th World Congress, Tampere, Finland, August 6-12, 1995 (pp. 89-94.) Virginia Tech, College of Forestry and Wildlife Resources. Publication No. FWS 1-96. 1996.

Estimating top height with variable plot sizes. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28, 1509-1517. 1998.

Realized gain and prediction of yield with improved Pinus radiata in New Zealand (by S. D. Carson, O. García and J. D. Hayes). Forest Science 45, 186-200. 1999.

Height growth of Pinus radiata in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science 29, 131-145. 1999.

Functional differential equations in sustainable forest harvesting. Journal of Forest Planning 6, 49-63. 2001.