Sandor Toth

  • Associate Professor
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    • Sándor Tóth

    • Associate Professor

    Research areas

    Natural Resource Informatics; sustainable forest and natural resource management; spatial forest planning and optimization; forest engineering and operations research; reserve design

    My primary field of interest is developing quantitative decision support tools to aid forest and natural resource management. I am particularly interested in building and testing mathematical models that can quantify and visualize the resource trade-offs and production possibilities between conflicting management objectives. I do research in the areas of (1) forest management planning, including spatially explicit harvest scheduling models and multiple-criteria forest planning; (2) operations research, including integer programming, multiple-criteria optimization, and multiple-criteria decision support systems; and (3) the economics of non-timber forest benefits.

    M.S., Forest Engineering, University of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Sopron, Hungary
    M.S., Agriculture, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan
    Ph.D., Forest Resources and Operations Research, Pennsylvania State University

    Autumn 2026-27 Admissions: Please reach out to Professor Tóth to inquire about their ability to admit new students.

    Courses

    • ESRM 461 | Forest Management and Economics (5) - Spring
    • SEFS 540 | Optimization Techniques for Natural Resources (5) - Spring

    Selected publications

    Kai L. Ross, Sándor F. Tóth and Weikko Jaross. 2018. Forest Harvest Scheduling with Endogenous Road Costs. Interfaces. 48(3): 260-270.

    Ross, K., and Sándor F. Tóth. 2016. A Model for Managing Edge Effects in Harvest Scheduling Using Spatial Optimization. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. 37(1): 646-654.

    McDill, M.E., S.F. Tóth, R. St. John, J. Braze, and S.A. Rebain. 2016. Comparing Model I and Model II Formulations of Spatially-Explicit Harvest Scheduling Models with Adjacency Constraints. Forest Science 62(1): 28-37.

    Roesch-McNally, G., S.S. Rabotyagov, J. Tyndall, G.J. Ettl, and S.F. Tóth. 2016. Auctioning the Forest: A qualitative approach to exploring stakeholder responses to bidding on forest ecosystem services. Small-Scale Forestry 15(3): 321-333.

    Svetlana Schroder, Sandor F. Toth, Robert Deal, Greg Ettl. 2016. Multi-objective optimization to evaluate tradeoffs among forest ecosystem services following fire hazard reduction in the Deschutes National Forest, USA. Ecosystem Services 22(B): 328-347.