Todd is interested in sustainable forest management that is optimal, operational, and simultaneously multiobjective. He is a dual forester and computer scientist, and the creator of SEEM growth and yield framework, the Spatial Explicit Ecosystem Model.

Publications:

• West, T.; Strimbu, B.M. 2025. Diameter and height modeling for accurate prediction of tree size in a Douglas-fir rainforest. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, cpaf010,
  https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpaf010
• West, T.; Strimbu, B.M. 2024. Elliott State Research Forest Timber Cruise, Oregon, 2015–2016. Data, 9, 16. https://doi.org/10.3390/data9010016
• West T, Sessions J, Strimbu BM. Steep Slope Harvest System Models for Small to Large Trees. Forests. 2022; 13(2):305. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13020305
• West, T.; Sessions, J.; Strimbu, B.M. Heuristic Optimization of Thinning Individual Douglas-Fir. Forests 2021, 12, 280. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12030280