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The Monitoring Monthly newsletter connects our cooperators by providing updates and insight into our latest projects. Our work would not be possible without support from the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Region State and Private Forestry and the University of Vermont.

The FEMC has many exciting news items and updates to share this month:

  • Our new online tool: Forest Impacts of Climate Change: Monitoring Indicators, and a webinar to share information about the resources

  • Annual Conference Plenary announcement

  • Rhode Island State Sprint Project to rescue data

  • Our new ECO AmeriCorps member

  • The completion of the Forest Health Monitoring field season

New Online Tool Available

The Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative is excited to announce the release of the Forest Impacts of Climate Change: Monitoring Indicators Version 1.0 web-tool. This tool allows users to explore where monitoring of important indicators of climate change is occurring throughout forests in the Northeastern U.S. Users can access protocols and visualize where monitoring studies are already being conducted. Landowners, managers, and researchers can then use these protocols to implement their own, comparable monitoring programs that will be added to a larger database. Developing this network of monitoring sites provides critical information to help close spatial gaps in monitoring efforts and provides baseline data for further inquiry into how forest systems are shifting in response to climate change.

Try the New Tool

A webinar is scheduled for October 12 at 12pm for a lunch and learn session to share information about how to use the tool and the results of a preliminary gap assessment of monitoring in New England and New York. The free webinar has been approved for 1.0 Category 1 credits from SAF.

Register for the Zoom Webinar

Annual Conference Plenary: Dr. Julia Burton

Dr. Julia Burton will join us as a plenary session speaker at the FEMC Annual Conference. Julia is an Associate Professor at Michigan Technical University in the College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science. Her research explores how forest ecosystem functions and services are impacted by disturbance regimes and climate change.

You can stay up to date with other details about the conference at our website.

Visit the Conference Website

Rescuing Data: Rhode Island State Project

Projects focused on the needs of each state are developed annually. This year, Rhode Island identified a need for rescuing data from archives to gain a better understanding of past monitoring. Boxes of files have been delivered to FEMC staff who are working to add the information to our digital database archive. Some of the data has provided valuable information about past outbreaks of Lymantria dispar dispar (formerly known as gypsy moth). We will continue to work with our partners in Rhode Island to rescue these files and make the data available to others.

FEMC State Coordinator and URI Research Entomologist Alana Russell stated the value of this project: “These data may have been at risk of being lost if not organized and archived properly, so I’m glad to have this support from FEMC.”

This project continues the work of the Data Rescue Inventory that was previously created. You can explore the database and suggest a rescue.

Explore the Data Rescue Inventory

Meet Naomi Cutler - Our New ECO AmeriCorps Member

Naomi Cutler is the ECO AmeriCorps member serving with FEMC for the 2021-2022 service year. She graduated from Middlebury College in 2020 with a history degree, and spent last year serving in ECO with the Middlebury Area Land Trust. Naomi is excited to learn more about making data accessible to all who want it this year. Outside of service, Naomi is an avid knitter, an aspiring banjo player, and a very novice sourdough-ist.

Forest Health Monitoring Season Complete

As leaves begin to change and there is a crispness to the air, the Forest Health Monitoring field season must come to a close. This year, for the first time, FEMC crews visited all seven states in the cooperative, establishing 200 plots for continued monitoring. Plots were established and measured at all sites in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Plots were visited and established in New York and will be measured next year. Once the leaves begin to fall field crews disperse, returning to university classes or other career opportunities. Once data QA/QC is complete, the data will be made available in the Regional FHM data archive.

Learn About the Regional FHM Project
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