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The Federal Biodiversity Fund was approved in December with funds to reimburse landowners for improved vegetation and diversity management on their properties. The six-year program has $946 million in funds that are aimed at reforestation, tackling invasive species, and also close management of lands of high conservation value. This biodiversity fund is part of a [...]
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Researchers from MIT, the University of Maryland, and the Santa Fe Institute have come up with a new model that predicts the maximum tree height in different environments across the United States. The model has inputs on temperature, precipitation, humidity and solar radiation, and uses these measurements to compute how tall a tree is likely [...]
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A research team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have created a precise map of the amount and location of carbon stored in tropical forests. The map was created with both ground- and space-based data sets, with both a detail of the amount of carbon stored as well as the accuracy. To arrive at a carbon [...]
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The first Esri Forestry GIS Solutions Conference is taking place today at the Esri headquarters in Redlands, Calif. this week. The community of the Esri forestry users is more than 1,000 strong, with 13 different countries represented at the event. The comprehensive management of forestry lands in the United States involves 750 million acres of [...]
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Researchers from the University of New Hampshire and the USDA Forest Service have taken a broad look at the carbon sequestration capability of forests in the conterminous United States and have isolated the impacts of different disturbances to determine their overall effect. Using remotely sensed land cover change maps, forest fire data, forest growth and [...]
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A new study by the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology details the carbon stored in the forest as well as that emitted by different land use practices. In order to calculate how much carbon was contained in the forest, satellite images along with LiDAR data was used to develop three-dimensional details on trees and [...]
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There’s a very interesting opportunity for two-year postdoctoral fellows through a partnership between the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the National Ecological Observing Network (NEON). The aim of the program is to build new capacity for the understanding of the interface between climate change and the impacts on terrestrial ecosystems, including the carbon [...]
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A recent paper titled, “Mapping and Monitoring Carbon Stocks with Satellite Observations: A comparison of methods,” in the journal Carbon Balance and Management summarizes the types of remote sensing measurements that are relevant to measuring carbon, along with limitations and merits, including optical, lidar reflectance and radar backscatter. Researchers at the Woods Hole Research Center [...]
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As follow up to this week’s Perspectives column regarding carbon cap and trade, there’s news today from noted economist Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Sachs believes that a straight carbon tax on the source of pollution would prove much easier and cheaper than putting a cap on tens of thousands [...]
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The University of Colorado and NOAA have conducted a study on the impact of the North American wildfire season on global warming. Apparently, the smoke transported to the Arctic may cool the surface for several weeks or months. You can read the full report here. While it makes sense to me that smoke in the [...]
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