In 2019, the Pacific Northwest Research Station joined forces with its partners in state governments, universities, and a host of other organizations to combine efforts in the Carbon Research Initiative. The overarching goal of the initiative is to increase understanding of the tradeoffs and synergies among different approaches to forest stewardship. In essence, the Carbon Research Initiative seeks to identify which forest stewardship practices and resource uses are most beneficial for sequestering and storing excess atmospheric carbon emissions that drive global warming.
The 2022 Carbon Research Initiative Business Report summarizes the objectives, progress, and next steps for 8 projects associated with the initiative. The business report also provides an update on the financial contributions by the station and partners and provides links to products such as databases, websites, and publications.
This manual describes the standards, codes, methods, and definitions for Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) field data items used for urban FIA inventories of San Diego, CA and Portland, OR by the PNW-FIA unit in 2022.
This manual documents data collection procedures, codes, standards, and definitions used by the Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis (PNW-FIA) program in the 2022 annual forest inventory of California, Oregon, and Washington.
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) initiated the Fire and Smoke Model Experiment (FASMEE) (https://fasmee.net) by funding JFSP Project 15-S-01-01. This nationwide, multiagency effort identifies and collects critical measurements that will be used to advance fire and smoke science and modeling capabilities, allowing managers to 1) increase the use of managed fire, 2) improve firefighting strategies, 3) enhance smoke forecasts, 4) better assess carbon stores and fire-climate interactions and improve our understanding of other fire effects such as vegetation response. FASMEE also provides unparalleled opportunities to introduce new technology and the next generation of fire researchers in the largest coordinated fire project to date. The core leadership portioned FASMEE into three phases including analysis and planning (Phase 1), data collection (Phase 2), and future improvements (Phase 3). Phase 1 is complete, with the study plan as the main deliverable and a final report submitted and accepted by the JFSP in 2020. The plan includes science questions, data measurements and specifications, and burn recommendations that serve to guide planning. The plan has been published in the scientific literature.
The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) initiated the Fire and Smoke Model Experiment (FASMEE) by funding Project 15-S-01-01 to identify and collect a set of critical measurements that will be used to advance wildland fire science knowledge and fire and smoke modeling capabilities. The project provided core leadership that developed a robust study plan and costing for a field campaign that would gather a novel set of observations, evaluate a selected set of models and use this information to advance operationally used fire and smoke modeling systems. FASMEE, with the support of the JFSP, leveraged several agency resources including the US Forest Service, National Science Foundation (NFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to successfully initiate the western wildfire campaign, the first of three data collection campaigns identified in the FASMEE study plan.
