Research emphasizes the quantitative component of forest management, with particular emphasis on forest inventory methods.

• Development of a model for defining and predicting the urban / wildland interface for Pickens, Oconee and Anderson Counties in South Carolina

• A vegatation and herptofaunal survey of the South Carolina National Guard Training Facilty at Clarks Hill

• A study which combines GIS spatial analysis using demographic and housing data along with land use data to geographically define the urban/rural fringe in the Piedmont of South Carolina, to determine the value of living in the urban/rural fringe and to determine how different fringe landscape characteristics impact housing values.

• Development of individual-tree growth and yield models for uneven-aged shortleaf pine stands in the Interior Highlands of Oklahoma and Arkansas.

• Assistant Professor in Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
  Clemson University; Clemson, SC
  01/99 – 08/01
• Associate Professor in Department of Forestry
  Adjunct Associate Professor in Department of Geography
  Oklahoma State University; Stillwater, OK
  07/95 – 12/98 
• Assistant Professor in Department of Forestry
  Oklahoma State University; Stillwater, OK
  11/91 – 06/95               
• Assistant Professor in School of Forestry
  Louisiana Tech University; Ruston, LA.
  08/86 – 11/91
• Assistant Professor in College of Forest Resources (non-tenure track)
  University of Maine; Orono, ME.
  07/85 – 08/86

1. Gering, L.R., T.S. Eddins and M.W. Marek. 2005. Defining the urban/rural interface of the South Carolina Piedmont using a GIS-based model.  In: Proc. of International Conference on Emerging Issues Along Urban/Rural Interfaces: Linking Science and Society; March 13-16, 2005; Atlanta, GA (pp 18-21)
2. Eddins, T.S., L.R. Gering, J. Hazelton and M.Espey. 2005. Forces of change in the rural/urban interface: residential land use.  In: Proc. of 2004 Society of American Foresters Convention; Edmonton, Canada; published in CD-ROM format.
3.  Abella, S.R., L.R. Gering and V.B. Shelburne. 2004. Slope correction of plot dimensions for vegetation sampling in mountainous terrain.  Natural Areas Journal 24(4): 358-360.
4. Gering, L.R., A.V. Chun and S. Anderson. 2000. Defining and predicting urban-wildland interface zones using a GIS-based model. In: Proc. of  Conference on Integrated Tools for Natural Resources Inventories in the 21st Century; USDA For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-212. pp 457- 463.
5. Huebschmann, M.M., L.R. Gering, T.B. Lynch, O. Bitoki and P.A. Murphy. 2000. An individual-tree growth and yield prediction system for uneven-aged shortleaf pine stands. Southern Journal of Applied Forestry 24(2): 112-120.

• FOR 253                     - Forest Mensuration
• FOR 302                     - Forest Biometrics
• FOR 308                     - Remote Sensing and GIS in Forestry
• FOR 433/633              - GPS Applications

• Ansel E. Miller Excellence in Teaching Award, Clemson > University Department of Forestry > and Natural Resources; 2006
• Advisor to the National Outstanding Student Chapter Award, > Society of American Foresters; 2000

• Society of American Foresters
• Certified Forester #748
• SC Registered Forester #1651