PhD student (supervisor Prof. Ola Sallnäs).

(MSc in Forest Management from SLU, MSc in Forest Operations and technology from Latvia University of Agriculture)

My interests include system-analytical research methods, land-use and forest modelling, international forest sector development. 

My PhD project can be summarized as follows:
We lack methods and models to tell us what effects the decisions made at estate-level will produce at a landscape level.  To describe the land ownership structure with sufficient detail has been a challenge due to the limited data availability. However, during recent years new types of data such as the maps of agricultural blocks, and spatially explicit estimates of forest parameters, the k-NN Sweden, have been produced for the entire territory of Sweden. These data capture the land-use and the spatial variation in forest characteristics and open new perspectives for bridging the landscape and estate scales in land-use and forest modelling.
My project aims at developing methods to utilize these types of data in landscape simulation models for land-use and forest management planning and policy assessments.

Education:
I co-lead the GIS exercises for students in the Forest Planning course of the Euroforester master program.

I was assistant supervisor for an MSc thesis:
Kindler, E. (2010) "Deciduous trees in Southern Sweden: relevance, occurence and future perspectives".

Selected scientific articles:
Lindbladh, M., A. Felton, R. Trubins, O. Sallnäs (2011). "A landscape and policy perspective on forest conversion: Long-tailed tit (Aegithalos caudatus) and the allocation of deciduous forests in southern Sweden." European Journal of Forest Research: 1-9.

Trubins, R. (2009). Introduction of GIS into IKEA's wood sourcing system: aspects of forest resource data availability and system functionality. Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre. Alnarp, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. Master thesis.