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Appendix B: Steering Committee and Speaker Biographies
Appendix B: Steering Committee and Speaker Biographies
Pages 69-76
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In his role as program manager, he is coordinating a national effort to improve the inventory and monitoring of forest carbon, to identify forest management strategies to increase carbon sequestration, to understand and quantify the prospective impacts of climate change on U.S. forests and forest products, and to develop adaptation strategies.
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Her research investigates the relationships between human activities, the land surface, and the biophysical and biogeochemical processes that regulate the Earth's habitability. She is interested in observing land cover and land use change at regional and global scales with remotely sensed data and exploring the implications for ecological services such as climate regulation, the carbon cycle, and biodiversity.
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Linda S Heath is a project leader and research scientist with the USDA Forest Service Northeastern Research Station, Forest Carbon Dynamics and Estimation Research Work Unit in Durham, New Hampshire.
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His current research is focused on the development and application of a new terrestrial ecosystem model that essentially takes a "statistical mechanics" approach to scaling local dynamics to global scales. Hurtt is involved in several collaborative research projects including the Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in South America, an interdisciplinary science investigation using National Aeronautical and Space Administration's Earth Observing System, and efforts to develop global carbon system and land surface models.
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Recent projects have included using monitoring and inventory data, remote sensing, ecosystem modeling, and field techniques to understand and predict terrestrial carbon cycles in the northeastern United States and mid-Atlantic regions. Jenkins previously was a research forester with the USDA's Forest Service.
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Previously, he was a program officer with the International GeosphereBiosphere Program. His research activities address ecological issues related to global and regional land use and climate changes on ecosystem dynamics, studies of the interaction between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere, the impact of changes in land management on trace gas exchange, and the development of a global ecosystem model.
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He is currently investigating pathways of rapid carbon loss from terrestrial ecosystems including fire emissions and permafrost degradation. He received a Ph.D.
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West studies changes in terrestrial carbon dynamics associated with changes in land use and management and also the impact of carbon sequestration policies on net greenhouse gas emissions. His current research includes the global quantification of carbon accumulation and loss rates associated with a number of terrestrial carbon sequestration options.
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