Chairs: Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States and Kathy Kelsey, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Conveners: Kathy Kelsey, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners: Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States, Connie Millar, USDA Forest Service, PSW Research Station, Vallejo, CA, United States and Christopher Swanston, USDA Forest Service, Houghton, MI, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Nancy Cavallaro, USDA/NIFA, Washington, DC, United States
Science-based Forest Management in an Era of Climate Change
Christopher Swanston1, Maria Janowiak1, Leslie Brandt2, Patricia Butler3, Stephen Handler1 and Danielle Shannon3, (1)US Forest Service Houghton, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, Houghton, MI, United States, (2)US Forest Service St. Paul, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, St. Paul, MN, United States, (3)Michigan Technological University, Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science, Houghton, MI, United States
Assessing Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in Fire-Affected Pinus Palustris Forests
John R Butnor1, Kurt H Johnsen2, Jason A Jackson2, Peter H Anderson2, Lisa J Samuelson3 and Klaus Lorenz4, (1)USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Burlington, VT, United States, (2)USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (3)Auburn University, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States, (4)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
Uncertainties in forest soil carbon and nitrogen estimates related to soil sampling methods in the Delaware River Basin
Bing Xu1, Alain F Plante2, Arthur H Johnson2 and Yude Pan3, (1)University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (2)University of Pennsylvania, Earth & Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (3)USDA Forest Service, Vallejo, CA, United States
Investigating Appropriate Sampling Design for Estimating Above-Ground Biomass in Bruneian Lowland Mixed Dipterocarp Forest
Dongho Lee1, Sohye Lee1, Kamariah Abu Salim2, Hyeon Min Yun1, Saerom Han1, Woo-Kyun Lee1, Stuart J Davies3 and Yowhan Son1, (1)Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, (2)Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei, (3)Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Washington DC, United States
Bayesian state-space model estimation of canopy height with next-generation space-borne LiDAR
Bruce Wallin, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Oleg Makhnin, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Mathematics, Socorro, NM, United States and Ute C Herzfeld, Univ Colorado Boulder, Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Boulder, CO, United States
Uncertainty in accounting for carbon accumulation following forest harvesting
Ruth D. Yanai, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY, United States, Paul Lilly, Spatial Informatics Group, LLC, Oakland, CA, United States, Mary A Arthur, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States, Kikang Bae, KFRI Korea Forest Research Institute of the Korea Forest Service, Seoul, South Korea, Steven Hamburg, Environmental Defense Fund Boston, Boston, MA, United States, Carrie R Levine, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States and Matthew A Vadeboncoeur, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States