Dagm Abate

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Postdoctoral Associate
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Education

PhD, Forestry, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Areas of Interest

Operations research, forest simulation modeling, mathematical optimization, forest planning and decision support, forest inventory and biometrics, wildfire protection and management.

Biography

I enjoy developing quantitative approaches that bridge forestry, operations research, and data science. My research focuses on forest inventory, simulation modeling, and mathematical optimization to support sustainable forest management and informed decision-making. Before joining the University of Minnesota as a Postdoctoral Associate, I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Lisbon and collaborated with researchers at Penn State University.

Research

  • Operations Research: Developing optimization and decision-support methods for sustainable forest management.
  • Simulation Modeling: Modeling forest growth, dynamics, and management scenarios to support long-term planning.
  • Forest Analytics: Applying statistical, computational, and geospatial methods to analyze complex forest datasets.

Select Publications

Kalabokidis, K., Roussou, O., Vasilakos, C., Palaiologou, P., Zianis, D., Trepekli, K., Brunet-Navarro, P., González-Olabarria, J. R., Borges, J. G., Marques, S., Abate, D. F., Jolly, W. M., & Ager, A. A. (2026). Can Greece Solve Its Wildfire Problem? GeoHazards, 7(2), 55. https://doi.org/10.3390/geohazards7020055

Abate, D., Botequim, B., Marques, S., Lagoa, C., Hernández, J. G., Hengeveld, G., Hoogstra-Klein, M., & Borges, J. G. (2025). Recreational and aesthetic values of forest landscapes (RAFL): Quantifying management impacts and trade-offs with provisioning and regulatory ecosystem services. Forest Ecosystems, 12, 100318. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fecs.2025.100318

Abate D, Marques S, Bushenkov V, Riffo J, Weintraub A, Constantino M, Lagoa C and Borges JG (2024) Assessment of tradeoffs between ecosystem services in large spatially constrained forest management planning problems. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 7:1368608. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2024.1368608

Sewagegn, G., and Abate, D. (2024). Church Forests Diversity and Biomass Carbon Stock along Urbanization Continuum in Dangila District, Awi-Zone, Ethiopia, International Journal of Forestry Research, 2024, 6635230. https://doi.org/10.1155/2024/6635230