Biomass Harvesting Sustainability Webinar Series: The status and potential future of biomass harvesting guidelines
Webinar Details
When:
Apr 1, 2014 12:00 pm US/Eastern
Length: 01:00 (hh:mm)
Advance Registration NOT required.
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Presenter(s):
- Zander Evans - Research Director, Forest Guild
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This webinar will address existing state and regional biomass harvesting guidelines (BHGs), including southeastern examples, and consider the national and international policy context for BHGs.
Forestry & Environmental Outreach Program
Zander Evans, Ph.D., is the Research Director with the Forest Guild. His current research includes developing guidelines for successful and responsible biomass removal projects, measuring the carbon impact of using forest biomass for energy and heat, and investigating climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies for the forestry sector. As research director, Zander’s mission is to continue the Guild's history of developing creditable and useful publications. He is also helping to coordinate the Forest Guild's Ecological Forestry Initiative.
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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