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Translating Forest Change to Carbon Emissions/Removals Linking Disturbance Products, Biomass Maps, and Carbon Cycle Modeling in a Comprehensive Carbon Monitoring Framework
Forests are a globally-significant store of carbon, but this store is vulnerable to release from disturbance processes such as harvesting or fires that oxidize forest carbon, releasing it to the atmosphere as CO2 and contributing to global warming. At the same time, intact forests serve as a major offset to rising CO2 concentrations as forest…
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Tools to Bridge the Gap between Static CMS Maps, Models, and Stakeholders
From its inception, the NASA Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) has largely been organized around two activities: observation-based mapping of biomass and model-based estimation of carbon flux. Although there has been significant progress in both biomass and flux activities at various scales, several challenges hinder the use of biomass products to inform flux modeling. Challenges include…
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Applied Science to Catalyze Natural Climate Solutions
Climate change is a global problem and limiting global warming below the 2°C threshold set by the Paris Climate Agreement will require both reductions in new greenhouse gas emissions and removal of existing gases from the atmosphere. Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) is a portfolio of conservation, restoration, and improved land management actions that increase carbon…
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Avoided Forest Conversion as a Climate and Conservation Opportunity in the United States
Avoiding forest conversion contributes to biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation, with substantial benefits to wildlife and human sustainability. This project aims to support measurable positive impacts by identifying and mapping hotspots of deforestation (forest conversion), linking these hotspots to drivers of land use change, developing a forest loss tracking interface, and examining the efficacy…
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Applied Science to Catalyze Natural Climate Solutions
Climate change is a global problem that will require both reductions in new greenhouse gas emissions and removal of existing gases from the atmosphere. This project’s aim is to provide the data and decision support tools needed for quantifying the albedo component of assessments evaluating climate change mitigation opportunities from reforestation and agroforestry, avoided deforestation,…
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Bringing Forest Carbon into Focus: Improved Estimates of Carbon Benefits from Avoided Forest Conversion in New England and New York
Climate change is a global problem and limiting global warming below the 2°C threshold set by the Paris Climate Agreement will require both reductions in new greenhouse gas emissions and removal of existing gases from the atmosphere. Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) is a portfolio of conservation, restoration, and improved land management actions that increase carbon…
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Assessing Forest Clearing Rates Near Pellet Mills in Southeastern US Forestlands
Wood pellets are increasingly used in many European countries as a renewable fuel source for power stations. Pellet mills in the southeastern United States are supplying much of this cross-Atlantic demand. While the pellet industry claims they are using low-grade trees and wood waste products as inputs to pellet production, environmentalists claim they are using…
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