Lawrence P. Abrahamson
Senior Research Associate
126 Illick Hall
One Forestry Drive
Syracuse, NY 13210-2788
(315) 470-6777
ceext@syr.edu
Highest Education:
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin (Entomology), 1969
Areas of Study:
Forest entomology, Forest pathology, Pesticides, Integrated pest management, Integrated forest and ROW vegetation management, Woody biomass for energy crops.
Courses Taught:
Most Recent Publications:
Kopp, R.F., L.P. Abrahamson, E.H. White, C.A. Nowak, L. Zsuffa, and K.F. Burns. 1996. Woodgrass spacing and fertilization effects on wood biomass production by a willow clone., Biomass & Bioenergy, 11(6):451-457.
Lo, M.H., and L.P. Abrahamson. 1996. Principal component analysis to evaluate the relative performance of nine-year old hybrid poplar clones, Biomass & Bioenergy, 10(1):1-6.
White, E.H., L.P. Abrahamson, D.J. Robison, E.F. Neuhauser, W.H. Benjamin, J.M. Peterson. 1996. Developing the willow biomass-bioenergy industry in New York: Challenges for commercializing the crop production system. In: BIOENERGY >96 Conference Proceedings, Sept. 15-19, 1996, Nashville, TN, pp. 60-67.
Abrahamson, L.P., C.A. Nowak, P.M. Charlton, and P.G. Snyder. 1995. Cost effectiveness of herbicide and non-herbicide vegetation management methods for electric utility rights-of-way in the Northeast, In: Doucet, G.J., C. Seguin, and M. Giguere (eds.) Proceedings, Fifth International Symposium on Environmental Concerns in Rights-of-Way Management, Sept. 19-22, 1993, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, p. 27-43.
White, E.H., L.P. Abrahamson, and D.J. Robison. 1995. Commercialization of willow bioenergy - A dedicated feedstock supply system, In: Proceedings, Second Biomass Conference of the Americas: Energy, Environment, Agriculture, and Industry, Aug. 21-24, 1995, Portland, OR, p. 1534-1546.
Lo, M.H., L.P. Abrahamson, E.H. White, and P.D. Manion. 1995. Early measures of basal area and canker disease predict growth potential of some hybrid poplar clones. Can. J. For. Res., 25(7):1113-1118.