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Bioadhesives are promising alternatives to formaldehyde-based adhesives, owing to their excellent low formaldehyde emissions and sustainable raw materials. Among these, lignin-isolate soy protein bioadhesives (LISP), produced from soy protein and lignin, exhibiting significant potential applications across various wood products. This study addresses previously unidentified environmental impacts and economic feasibility of large-scale LISP bioadhesive production. This study evaluates the techno-economics and cradle-to-gate life cycle environmental impacts of a novel LISP bioadhesive production ...
AuthorsJ.P. Ahire, S.H. Mousavi-Avval, N. Rajendran, R. Bergman, T. Runge, C. Jiang, J. HuKeywordsSourceJournal of Cleaner ProductionYear2024 -
We propose the core collaborative community science framework, an original conceptual framework that integrates and modifies best practices from community science and collective impact groups to support investigations of environmental health and justice. The core collaborative community science framework differs from more typical frameworks for community science, which often frame projects as static and either scientist or community led; these framings can limit the potential for co-production and action-oriented models of science. Frameworks are lacking to help community science collaborators...
AuthorsMonika Derrien, Weston Brinkley, Dale Blahna, Alberto Rodríguez, Roseann Barnhill, Christopher Zuidema, Katie Beaver, Elisabeth Grinspoon, Sarah JovanKeywordsSourceEcology and Society. 29(1):28.Year2024 -
Hydrology and meteorological data from relatively undisturbed watersheds aid in identifying effects on ecosystem services, tracking hydroclimatic trends, and reducing model uncertainties. Sustainable forest, water, and infrastructure management depends on assessing the impacts of extreme events and land use change on flooding, droughts, and biogeochemical processes. For example, global climate models predict more frequent high-intensity storms and longer dry periods for the southeastern USA. We summarized 17 years (2005–2021) of hydrometeorological data recorded in the 52 km2, third-order Turk...
AuthorsDevendra M. Amatya, Timothy J. Callahan, Sourav Mukherjee, Charles A. Harrison, Carl C. Trettin, Andrzej Wałęga, Dariusz Młyński, Kristen D. EmmettKeywordsSourceHydrologyYear2024 -
Flood peak magnitudes and frequency estimates are key components of any effective nationwide flood risk management and flood damage abatement program. In this study, we evaluated normalized peak design discharges (Qp) for 1,387 hydrologic unit code 16 to 20 (HUC16-20) watersheds in the White Mountain National Forest (WMNF), New Hampshire and in five Experimental Forest (EF) regions across the United States managed by USDA Forest Service (USDA-FS). Nonstationary regional frequency analysis (RFA) and single site frequency analysis (FA) with long-term high-resolution observed streamflow data alon...
AuthorsSourav Mukherjee, Devendra M. Amatya, John L. Campbell, Landon Gryczkowski, Sudhanshu Panda, Sherri L. Johnson, Kelly Elder, Anna M. Jalowska, Peter Caldwell, Johnny M. Grace, Dariusz Młyński, Andrzej WałęgaKeywordsSourceJournal of HydrologyYear2024 -
The melting cryosphere adds heterogeneity to the abiotic and biotic characteristics of many high latitude and montane rivers. However, climate change threatens the cryosphere's persistence in many regions. While existing research has explored the impacts of cryospheric loss on the diversity and structure of freshwater communities, implications for functional traits of communities, such as production of aquatic invertebrates, remain unresolved. Here, we quantified aquatic invertebrate community structure and secondary production in southeast Alaska (USA) streams that represent a meltwater to no...
AuthorsMatthew R. Dunkle, J. Ryan Bellmore, Jason B. Fellman, Christopher C. CaudillKeywordsSourceLimnology and Oceanography. 69(2): 232-245.Year2024 -
Interest in replacing monocultures with species diverse stands has steadily grown. Mixedwoods (stands containing a balance of conifer and hardwood species) represent an alternative to monocultures and occur naturally through forest succession on most sites in eastern North America. In the central and southeastern United States, mixedwoods were generally dominated by pine and upland oak species. However, a combination of anthropogenic land use legacies has allowed fire-sensitive species to establish creating an opportunity for different mixedwood types to develop (e.g., pine-oak, pine-poplar, p...
AuthorsJ.L. Willis, A.B. SelfKeywordsSourceForest Ecology and ManagementYear2024 -
The application of lidar data to assist with forest inventory is common around the world. However, the determination of tree species is still somewhat elusive. Lidar data collected using UAS (uncrewed aircraft systems) platforms offer high density point cloud data for areas from a few to several hundred hectares. General point cloud metrics computed using these data captured differences in the crown structure that proved useful for species classification. For our study, we manually adjusted plot and tree locations to align field trees and UAS lidar point data and computed common descriptive me...
AuthorsRobert J. McGaughey, Ally Kruper, Courtney R. Bobsin, Bernard T. BormannKeywordsSourceRemote Sensing. 16(4): 603.Year2024 -
Human settlement has historically degraded floodplains and valley floors by introducing structures, such as dikes and dams, to control water flow and steer flooding away from areas where people live and work. In the past decade, land managers in the Pacific Northwest have devised projects to reconnect rivers with their floodplains. They’ve designed these projects to increase the abundance and diversity of freshwater organisms by increasing habitat complexity. To further understand this new rehabilitation method, scientists from the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station invest...
AuthorsNatasha Vizcarra, Rebecca FlitcroftKeywordsSourceScience Findings 264. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 6 p.Year2024 -
Climate change poses a significant threat to the resilience and sustainability of forest ecosystems. This study examines the performance of white oak (Quercus alba, L.) across a range of provenances in a common garden planting, focusing on the species’ response to climatic variables and the potential role of assisted migration in forest management. We evaluated the survival and growth rates of white oak provenances originating from various points along a latitudinal gradient over a period of 40 years. These provenances were planted in a common garden situated near the midpoint of this latitu...
AuthorsAustin M. Thomas, Mark V Coggeshall, Philip A. O’Connor, C. Dana NelsonKeywordsSourceForestsYear2024 -
On Earth Day, 2022, the White House issued an executive order requiring federal agencies to inventory the mature and old-growth forests on Federal lands, to complete this inventory within a year of the order, and to make it available to the public. This order extended from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (i.e., the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act 2021), which invested $5.5 billion over 5 years to address some of the USDA Forest Service’s most pressing issues, including the increased risk of wildland fire, ecosystem restoration, and the conservation of old-growth forests. To compl...
AuthorsSue Miller, Kristen Pelz, Andy GrayKeywordsSourceScience You Can Use (in 5 Minutes), March 2024. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2 p.Year2024