S. F. Toth Faculty Page

Research Interests:

My primary field of interest is developing quantitative decision support tools to aid forest and natural resource management. I am particularly interested in building and testing mathematical models that can quantify and visualize the resource trade-offs and production possibilities between conflicting management objectives. I do research in the following thematic areas:

Forest management planning: spatially explicit harvest scheduling models, multiple-criteria forest planning.
Operations research: integer programming, multiple-criteria optimization, multiple-criteria decision support systems.
The economics of non-timber forest benefits.

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Tóth, Sándor F., Robert G. Haight, and Luke W. Rogers 2011: Dynamic Reserve Selection: Optimal Land Retention with Land Price Feedbacks. Operations Research. Forthcoming.

Tóth, Sándor F., Sergey S. Rabotyagov and Gregory J. Ettl 2010: ECOSEL: An Auction Mechanism for Forest Ecosystem Services. Mathematical and Computational Forestry & Natural Resource Sciences. 2(2): 99-116.

Tóth, Sándor F., Robert G. Haight, Stephanie A. Snyder, Sonney George, James R. Miller, Mark S. Gregory and Adam. M. Skibbe 2009: Reserve Selection with Minimum Contiguous Area Restrictions: An Application to Open Space Protection Planning in Suburban Chicago. Biological Conservation 142(8): 1617-1627.

Tóth, Sándor F. and Marc E. McDill 2009: Finding Efficient Harvest Schedules under Three Conflicting Objectives. Forest Science 55(2): 117-131.

Tóth, Sándor F. and Marc E. McDill 2008: Promoting Large, Compact Mature Forest Patches in Harvest Scheduling Models. Environmental Modeling and Assessment 13(1):1-15.

Tóth, Sándor F., Marc E. McDill and Stephanie Rebain 2006: Finding the Efficient Frontier of a Bi-Criteria, Spatially Explicit, Harvest Scheduling Model. Forest Science 52(1):93-107.

Tóth, Sándor F., Tatsuhito Ueki and Marc E. McDill 2006: Monitoring the Forest Resources and Management of Private Landowners in Nagano, Japan, Japanese Journal of Forest Planning 12:59-64.

Tóth, Sándor F., Tatsuhito Ueki and Yuji Uozumi 2001: The Ecological and Historical Background of Forest Management in Hungary, Japanese Journal of Forest Planning 7:11-19

Tóth, Sándor F., Tatsuhito Ueki and Yuji Uozumi 2001: The Current Situation of Hungarian Forest Management, with Special Emphasis on the Recent Changes in Forest Ownership, Japanese Journal of Forest Planning 7:21-28

Sándor F. Tóth Assistant Professor of Natural Resource Informatics

PhD: Penn State University 2005 MS: Shinshu University, Japan 2002 Dipl. Forest Engineer: University of Western Hungary 1994 Curriculum Vitae	Research Interests: My primary field of interest is developing quantitative decision support tools to aid forest and natural resource management. I am particularly interested in building and testing mathematical models that can quantify and visualize the resource trade-offs and production possibilities between conflicting management objectives. I do research in the following thematic areas: Forest management planning: spatially explicit harvest scheduling models, multiple-criteria forest planning. Operations research: integer programming, multiple-criteria optimization, multiple-criteria decision support systems. The economics of non-timber forest benefits. Peer-Reviewed Publications: Tóth, Sándor F., Robert G. Haight, and Luke W. Rogers 2011: Dynamic Reserve Selection: Optimal Land Retention with Land Price Feedbacks. Operations Research. Forthcoming. Tóth, Sándor F., Sergey S. Rabotyagov and Gregory J. Ettl 2010: ECOSEL: An Auction Mechanism for Forest Ecosystem Services. Mathematical and Computational Forestry & Natural Resource Sciences. 2(2): 99-116. Tóth, Sándor F., Robert G. Haight, Stephanie A. Snyder, Sonney George, James R. Miller, Mark S. Gregory and Adam. M. Skibbe 2009: Reserve Selection with Minimum Contiguous Area Restrictions: An Application to Open Space Protection Planning in Suburban Chicago. Biological Conservation 142(8): 1617-1627. Tóth, Sándor F. and Marc E. McDill 2009: Finding Efficient Harvest Schedules under Three Conflicting Objectives. Forest Science 55(2): 117-131. Tóth, Sándor F. and Marc E. McDill 2008: Promoting Large, Compact Mature Forest Patches in Harvest Scheduling Models. Environmental Modeling and Assessment 13(1):1-15. Tóth, Sándor F., Marc E. McDill and Stephanie Rebain 2006: Finding the Efficient Frontier of a Bi-Criteria, Spatially Explicit, Harvest Scheduling Model. Forest Science 52(1):93-107. Tóth, Sándor F., Tatsuhito Ueki and Marc E. McDill 2006: Monitoring the Forest Resources and Management of Private Landowners in Nagano, Japan, Japanese Journal of Forest Planning 12:59-64. Tóth, Sándor F., Tatsuhito Ueki and Yuji Uozumi 2001: The Ecological and Historical Background of Forest Management in Hungary, Japanese Journal of Forest Planning 7:11-19 Tóth, Sándor F., Tatsuhito Ueki and Yuji Uozumi 2001: The Current Situation of Hungarian Forest Management, with Special Emphasis on the Recent Changes in Forest Ownership, Japanese Journal of Forest Planning 7:21-28	University of Washington College of Forest Resources Precision Forestry Cooperative TEACHING Optimization Techniques for Natural Resources (CFR 540) FOR FOREST LANDOWNERS ECOSEL - A Forest Ecosystem Services Marketing Tool FTP
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