RESUME
ADDRESS: Kim Iles &
Associates Ltd.
V9R 6A6
Phone / FAX:
(604) 753‑8095
Web
page: http://www.island.net/~kiles/
DEGREES: B.S. Forest Management,
BORN:
Landed
Immigrant in
SPECIALTIES:
Statistics
and
Proportional
Probability Sampling Systems & Timber Cruising Methods.
Growth
& Yield, Sample Scaling.
Expert
Witness Consultation in Legal cases.
PAST OR PRESENT PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND
AFFILIATIONS:
Society of
American Foresters.
American
Statistical Society.
International
Stereology Society.
Member,
Academic Standards Committee of B.C. Professional Foresters, 1990 to 1992.
Member,
NSERC Strategic Grant Selection Panel on Food, Agriculture and Forestry, 1990
to 1993.
Adjunct
Professor, U.B.C., 1989 – Present.
Member,
American Forest Council Subcommittee on National Forest Inventory
in the
BRIEF WORK
HISTORY:
1997‑Present Consultant,
Kim Iles & Associates Ltd.
1979‑1991 Biometrician and Head of Growth
and Yield Dept., MacMillan Bloedel Ltd.,
1976‑1979 Ph.D. program, U.B.C.
1974‑1976 Instructor in Forest Biometrics,
M.T.U.,
1972‑1974 M.Sc. Degree,
1969‑1971 Senior Programmer,
1965‑1969 B.S. Degree, Forest Management,
Dr.
Iles is the author of a textbook on Forest Inventory (now in second printing).
He
was the principle inventory design consultant for the British Columbia
Provincial Inventory design. This
inventory covered an area of 250,000,000 acres (100,000,000 hectares).
His
specialties of Variable Plot Sampling and 3P sampling are the dominant
inventory systems used in the
He
has taught inventory techniques to several thousand professional cruisers on 3
continents, and is the major contributor to the Cruising and Inventory
Newsletter published by John Bell & Associates.
He
has been a member of several committees of national standing, and has developed
and introduced a number of innovations in cruising systems in
CONSULTING CLIENTS:
Teaching
United States Forest Service, Training Branch
(review of training plan)
Oregon State Board of Forestry (cruising
short course)
British Columbia Institute of Technology
(statistics & inventory)
U.S. Forest Service, Region 5 (cruising short
course)
SAF (
Western Forestry and Conservation Association
(several sampling courses)
D.R. Systems (3P sampling courses)
Inventory
& Statistics
Inventory Branch, B.C. Ministry of Forests
(250,000,000 acre inventory)
Port Blakely (
Pacific Lumber Company (Inventory, G&Y,
ecological sampling)
Weyerhaeuser (sampling of retention areas)
Washington Dept. of Natural Resources (data
summary issues)
Silviculture Branch, B.C. Ministry of Forests
(Inventory design, wildlife trees)
T.M. Thomson, Forestry Consultants (FRDA
Review)
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources
(G&Y advice)
The Campbell Group (Inventory Design)
TimberWest Ltd. (Inventory design, 3P sample
project)
Merritt Forest District, MoF (minor species Inventory design )
Hugh Hamilton Ltd. (Inventory Design )
Valuation Branch, B.C. Ministry of Forests
(Statistics, inventory design, 3P)
Canadian International Forest Products Ltd.
(Inventory Design )
Weldwood Canada Ltd (Inventory design, 25,000
acre land sale)
BC Land Trade Committee (“equivalent acre” sampling)
Forest Information Services (satellite data evaluation)
D.R. Systems (State of
Lignum Ltd (Vegetation Inventory)
J.S. Thrower (computation issues and growth
measurement)
Pacific Forest Products (inventory design)
Pacific Software (sample scaling design)
David Moon Ecological Consulting (ecological
sampling)
Greater Victoria Water District (watershed
sampling)
Legal Cases
US Justice Department (inventory issue,
hurricane damage).
Shapray, Cramer (timber inventory dispute).
Karnoop, Peterson (Warm Springs legal action).
Bull, Houser, Tupper (suit over appraisal of
timber).
International Forest Products (mediated
action on timber value).
Several other actions of a confidential
nature.
COMPUTER EXPERIENCE:
1992-Present Designed Program for
documenting database work by technical committees, and set up example database
design for MoF inventory of BC.
Designed
3P handheld program
1989-1991
Designed
summary database for CFPC permanent plot information.
1979‑1991 As supervisor of
the Growth and Yield department, arranged for the introduction of interactive
statistical packages, graphics routines and data base use into MacMillan Bloedel
Woodlands research work. Some experience
in writing IBM/PC programs in BASIC and FORTRAN. Designed the Provincial data base for
permanent sample plots.
1974‑1976
1970‑1971
1967‑1968 Designed, wrote
and maintained computer programs for use at
MISCELLANEOUS
FIELD EXPERIENCE:
Summer 1967 Weyerhaeuser
Company: choker setting, road layout,
timber sale layout.
Summers of
1965, 1966 U.S. Forest
Service: thinning contract
administration, slash disposal, fire suppression, brush control.
PAPERS
PUBLISHED:
Iles,
K. and Lester Wilson. "A Further Neglected Mean". Mathematics Teacher. Jan. 1977.
Iles,
K. "Pythagoras and the Tree Ring Problem". Math. Spectrum. May 1978.
Iles,
K. "Increasing Estimation Efficiency in 3P Cruises".
Iles,
K. "Some Techniques to Generalize the use of Variable Plot and Line
Intersect Sampling".
(This work was summarized
in a German scientific publication of Walter Bitterlich as "Eine fliessend mitwachsende Dauerstichprobe
in Wald". Allgemeine
Forstzeitung, Folge 2, February 1983.
Also in his book, chapter 10,
"The Relascope Idea". Page Bros. (
Iles,
K. and Lester Wilson. "An Improvement of a Historic Construction". Mathematics Teacher. Jan. 1980.
Iles,
K. "Permanent 'Variable' Plots for
Iles,
K. "Some Thoughts on Growth Measurement Techniques". 1983.
Proceedings: Renewable Resource
Inventories for Monitoring Changes and Trends.
Iles,
K. and Tom W. Beers. "Growth Information from Variable Plot
Sampling". 1983. Proceedings:
Renewable Resource Inventories for Monitoring Changes and Trends.
Iles,
K. and John F. Bell. "Grade Assessment using Variable Plot
Sampling". 1983. Proceedings:
Renewable Resource Inventories for Monitoring Changes and Trends.
Iles,
K. and M. Fall. “Can an Angle Gauge Really Evaluate ‘Borderline Trees’ Accurately in
Variable Plot Sampling?” June
1988.
Iles,
K. and W.H. Wilson. Changing Angle Gauges in Variable Plot Sampling: Is there a Bias under Ordinary Conditions? June 1988.
Smith,
N.J. and K. Iles. A Graphical Depiction of Multivariate Similarity Among Sample Plots. April 1988.
Iles, K.
"Critical Height
Sampling: A Workshop on the
Iles,
K. "The Relascope: Enduring Principles and Historical Development" 1992,
Proceedings of the IUFRO Centennial Meeting in
Iles,
K. "Some Directions for
Iles,
K. “Constructing a Safety Net in the Circus of New Technology”, proceedings of
the IUFRO inventory conference is
Iles,
K. “Some Practical Aspects of Designing
a Large Inventory”, International meeting on Forest Inventory,
Flewelling,
James and Kim Iles “Area-Independent Sampling for Total Basal Area.
Smith,
Nick and Kim Iles “Sector Sampling”, Forest Science, in press
Marshall, David; Kim Iles and John Bell “Using
a large-angle gauge to select trees for measurement in variable plot sampling” Canadian Journal of Forest Research, April
2004, pages 840-845.
BOOKS:
A
Sampler of Inventory Topics. A
textbook on forest inventory (second printing)
"
A FEW (of many)
TALKS PRESENTED (no paper produced):
Iles,
K. and Steve Northway. "Ridge Regression Without Using a Matrix ‑
The Logic Behind the System and Some Improvements". Midwestern Mensurationists Meeting.
Iles,
K. "Shiftable Plot Borders, Pseudo‑trees and the CFI Concept. Why Not Take Stem Distribution into Account?" Western Mensurationists Meeting.
Iles,
K. "An Historical Instrument, Bitterlich's Early Wooden Relascope". Western Mensurationists Meeting,
Iles,
K. "Importance Sampling".
Western Mensurationists Meeting.
Iles, K. "Update
on the B.C. Inventory". Western
Mensurationist Meeting.
Iles, K. “How to
place a grid – not as easy as you might
think”, Western Mensuration Meeting.
Iles, K. “Solving
the edge effect problem, an exact solution” Western Mensurationist
Meeting. 2001
Iles, K and Nick Smith. “Sector
Sampling, a new plot shape” Western Mensurationist Meeting. 2002
Iles, K. “A
General solution to the ‘nearest neighbor’ sampling problem” Western
Mensurationist Meeting. 2003 (speaker
award)
Iles, K. “Driving Mr. Lew” at the invited conference to celebrate the work of
Lew Grosenbaugh.
UNPUBLISHED PAPERS:
"Penetration Sampling", an extension
of the Bitterlich system to the third dimension. 1974.
"Geometrical considerations affecting the
determination of basal area growth by increment boring methods",
unpublished M.Sc. thesis,
Invited
paper at Walter Bitterlich's 80th Birthday Celebration,
DISSERTATION
TOPIC: Ph.D., 1979
"Systems
for the Selection of Random Samples and the Extension of Variable Plot Sampling
to the Third Dimension".
Selection of truly random samples of individual trees has previously
been very time consuming. Techniques are
presented which do not require the numbering of every member of the
population. Bitterlich's sampling system
is generalized to three dimensions to give direct volume estimates without the
need for volume tables of any kind. This
was an independent development of what has become known as "Critical
Height Sampling".
REVIEWER FOR:
Forestry Chronicle
Western Journal of Applied Forestry
Northern Journal of Applied Forestry
Ministry of Forests, Research Branch
Plant Physiology
B.C. Science Council
National Sciences & Engineering Research
Council (NSERC)
Strategic and Operational Grants.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
1979‑1991 In charge of
growth and yield projections, AAC calculations, experimental designs, etc., as
Senior Biometrician for MacMillan Bloedel Ltd. (6‑12 permanent
staff).
1977 Produced
the calculation of allowable cut for the
1973 In
charge of biometrics phase of research on soil compaction and tree growth
conducted by the Forest Engineering Dept. of Oregon State University.
1972 Field
Project Leader, International Biological Program project on tree biomass. Results published in "Estimation of
Biomass and Nutrient Capital in stands of old‑growth Douglas‑fir",
IUFRO Biomass Conference Proceedings.
1969 Research
Assistant, Sampling Theory Project.
3P sampling, SALT sampling, Hartley PPS sampling. Results in thesis by Dr. John F. Bell, Oregon
State University.
REFERENCES:
Dr. John F. Bell (former Professor, Forest Biometrics, OSU
- now a consultant)
Dr. John F. Bell
97330
Phone: (503) 758-4939 FAX: (503) 757-7078
Norm
Shaw (In addition to being an instructor at
BCIT, Norm is a qualified cruiser
and scaler who is very familiar
with the BC area)
Norm Shaw
BCIT,
V7E 1J4
Phone (604)
432-8804 FAX (604) 439-8791
Dr. Dave Hyink (Dr. Hyink is the senior biometrician with Weyerhaeuser
Company, and
a major
influence in biometrics in the
Dr. Dave Hyink
98477
Phone (206)
924-6315 FAX (204) 924-6736