Biomass Harvesting Sustainability Webinar Series: Soil impacts of biomass harvesting
Webinar Details
When:
Jul 8, 2014 12:00 pm US/Eastern
Length: 01:00 (hh:mm)
Advance Registration NOT required.
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Presenter(s):
- Dr. Larry Morris, University of Georgia
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Concerns regarding the sustainability of woody biomass harvests have led to the development of Biomass Harvesting Guidelines (BHGs), which typically recommend that a percentage of harvestable biomass be retained and distributed across the logging area. However, these BHGs lack technical underpinning derived from empirical research, and little is known about the effects on soil physical and chemical attributes to BHG implementation or woody biomass harvest in general. In this webinar, we present preliminary findings from 3 years of study of the effects of biomass harvesting on soil carbon, nitrogen and physical and other chemical attributes in pine forests of the southeastern USA.
Harvesting woody biomass
Dr. Lawrence "Larry" Morris is Professor of Forest Soils at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at University of Georgia. Dr. Morris is leading the research on soil impacts related to biomass harvesting guideline application in the southeast. He teaches a course on the Natural History of Georgia. His research interests include soil management and forest productivity (US and Brazil); Environmental impacts of forest management; Land application and treatment of waste and wastewater; and Urban soils.
This webinar is part of the Biomass Harvesting Sustainability Webinar Series offered by the NC State University Forestry and Environmental Outreach Program. The Series of six webinars will present research results, policy updates, challenges and opportunities of harvesting woody biomass for energy. NC State University has been the lead partner on a four year research project designed to create a better understanding of how biomass harvesting for emerging renewable energy markets impacts ecosystem services provided by our southeastern forest lands. Other partners on this project include scientists from the University of Georgia, NGOs, and forest industry.
Funding for this project has been provided by the USDA NRI/AFRI - Managed Ecosystems Program, the National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, the Biofuels Center of North Carolina, the NCDA Bioenergy Initiative, and the Southeast Climate Science Center, with in kind support from Weyerhaeuser Corp, Georgia Pacific, and Plum Creek.
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