Presentations
2018 National FIA User Group Meeting
April 24-25 | Albany, California
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INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
- John Barnwell – Society of American Foresters
- Helge Eng – Cal Fire
CONTEXT FOR THE MEETING
- Meeting Overview and Goals
Steve Prisley – National Council for Air and Stream Improvement - Program Priorities, Partners, and the USDA Forest Service Big Picture
Linda Heath – USDA Forest Service, Inventory, Monitoring and Assessment Research Staff - FIA Program Coordination and Credibility
Greg Reams – USDA Forest Service, Inventory, Monitoring and Assessment Research Staff
BRIEF STATUS UPDATES
- Carbon Accounting Update
Grant Domke – USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station - Alaska Inventory Update
Glenn Christensen – USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station - Biomass Equation Project Update
Jim Westfall – USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
FIA USER FLASH SESSION
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- Fantastic Information Applied
Sherri Wormstead – USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Area - How We Use FIA Data
Burl Carraway – Texas A&M Forest Service - How We Use FIA Data
Andy Stoltman – Wisconsin Dept. of Natural Resources - California Forest Carbon Inventory and FIA
Nadia Tase – CAL FIRE - Marbled Murrelet Habitat Change in Oregon
Steve Prisley – National Council for Air and Stream Improvement - New Jersey Examples
Bill Zipse, NJFS - Timber Flow and Milling Capacity
Susan Winter – USDA Forest Service, Ecosystem Management Coordination Staff, and Todd Morgan – Univ. of Montana, Bureau of Business and Economic Research - Lake Tahoe Restoration Partnership
Alec Kretchun – Portland State University - How We Use FIA Data
Dennis Kepler and Scott Hillard – Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources - What Did We Hear in the Flash Session?
Bill Burkman – USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station
URBAN FOREST INVENTORY
- National Program Status Update
Mark Majewsky – USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station FIA - Portland, Oregon, Urban Inventory
Angie DiSalvo – City of Portland - Urban Inventory in Texas
Rebekah Zehnder – Texas A&M Forest Service
STATEWIDE SPATIAL/TEMPORAL INTENSIFICATION
- Benefits of an Intensified Sample
Andy Stoltman – Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources - Issues with Intensification
Mark Rosenberg – CAL FIRE
FIA APPLICATIONS AND UPDATES
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Pellet Study
Esther Parish – US Department of Energy, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Landowner Survey Update
Andy Hartsell – USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station - Timber Products Output Program Update
John Coulston – USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station - Resources Planning Act (RPA) Assessment Activities and Update
Linda Langner – USDA Forest Service, Inventory Monitoring and Assessment Research Staff
LEVERAGING FIA WITH REMOTELY SENSED DATA
- Height Estimation from Remote Sensing
Jacob Strunk – USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station - Change Mapping – Image-based Change Estimation
Sean Healey – USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station - Private Sector Efforts
Zack Parisa – SilvaTerra
SYNTHESIS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- Panel on State Perspectives: Needs and Challenges
Robert Simpson – National Association of State Foresters - Compilation and Presentation of Action Items
Steve Prisley – National Council on Air and Stream Improvement
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CARBON DAY
April 26 | Albany, California
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INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
- Introduction to Carbon Day
Linda Heath – USDA Forest Service, R&D, IMAR - Overview of California’s Interest in Carbon
Mark Rosenberg – California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection - Panel Discussion:
Shelby Livingston – California Air Resources Board; Matt Dias – California
Board of Forestry; and Russ Henly – California Natural Resources Agency - Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals on Forest Land of the United States
Grant Domke – USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station
NATURAL AND WORKING LANDS INVENTORY
- California Air Resources Board Natural and Working Lands Inventory Overview
Klaus Scott – California Air Resources Board - California Forest and Rangeland Inventory Methods
John Battles – University of California, Berkeley
FOREST OFFSET PROTOCOL INVENTORY AND ACCOUNTING METHODS
- California Air Resources Board Offset Protocol: A Brief Introduction
Barbara Bamberger – California Air Resources Board (CARB) - FIA/ARB/CAR Baseline for Offset Protocol
Olaf Kuegler – USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station - Case Study: Objective Forest Type Assessment for Carbon Baseline Modeling
Zack Parisa – SilvaTerra
CAL FIRE, NFS, NGHG INVENTORY METHODS
- Introducing the California Forest Ecosystem and Harvested Wood Products Carbon Inventory
Nadia Tase – California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection - California Forest Ecosystem Carbon Inventory: 2007-2016
Glenn A. Christensen, Andrew N. Gray & Olaf Kuegler – USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
Nadia A. Tase & Mark Rosenberg – California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection - California Forest Ecosystem Carbon Inventory: 2006-2015
Glenn Christensen – USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station - California Timber Products Output and Harvested Wood Products Carbon Inventory
Dan Loeffler and Todd Morgan – Univ. of Montana, Bureau of Business and Economics Research - Uncertainty in Aboveground Biomass Estimates Derived from Small-Footprint Airborne LIDAR
Qing Xu – University of Nevada, Reno - Estimating Soil Organic Carbon from Forests
Grant Domke – USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station FIA
PROJECTIONS AND ASSESSMENT TOOLS
- RPA Assessment Projections and Methods
John Coulston – USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station - California Energy Commission Sponsored BIOSUM Project: The Ever Evolving Policy Angles
Bill Stewart – University of California, Berkeley, Jeremy Fried -USDA Forest Service, Pacific
Northwest Research Station, and Carlin Starrs – University of California, Berkeley