Greetings and hope this update finds you well. Wondering what is going on with forest climate and related matters as you work from home? Here are some updates....
Science Advances last week published Forests: Carbon Sequestration, Biomass Energy, or Both? by FCCI researcher Dr. Adam Daigneault and colleagues from Georgia Institute of Technology and Ohio State University. By taking into account dynamic market and management responses, the study provides an improved understanding of the benefits and risks of increasing global bioenergy demand on forests and forest carbon mitigation potential under alternative policy scenarios.
You can see read the entire paper here.
The next webinar in NIACS Forest Adaptation webinar series, Changing Hydrology, is scheduled for April 16 and will feature John Campbell, US Forest Service Northern Research Station, and Erin Rodgers, Trout Unlimited. Click here to register and to see recordings of previous webinars in this series.
To alter our trajectory of impacts on the climate we have to use the best available information to understand the changes taking place all around us, and specifically those in Maine. Maine's Climate Future: 2020 Update is a comprehensive report on Maine's changing climate by Dr. Ivan Fernandez and fellow researchers at UMaine's Climate Change Institute.
And finally, the USDA Science Blueprint: A Roadmap for USDA Science from 2020 to 2025 has been released and can be accessed here.The USDA is focusing on collaborative science which aligns fundamental research with projects funded through extramural and intramural research programs, as well as the knowledge and information delivered by via their statistical survey and economic analytics programs. .
