Filling in the Blanks:Current research on measuring, managing & co-existing with California's Forest скачать в хорошем качестве

Filling in the Blanks:Current research on measuring, managing & co-existing with California's Forest

Hosted by EX-Ls - Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Retiree Association and the UC Berkeley Retirement Center Welcome by EX-Ls President Robert Cahn and introduction of Speaker J. Keith Gilless, Ben Feinberg, EX-Ls 1st Vice President. Speaker: J. Keith Gilless is a member of the faculty of both the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management and the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. He served as Dean of Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources from 2007 to 2018 and retired from active professorial status in 2020. California's forests are capable of producing both forest products and environmental services, but also pose public safety and public health challenges -- even to those who live in urban areas. From a research perspective, we don't know much of what we'd like to know to design effective policies and incentives to promote innovative forest products; accurately measuring what is happening in the forests with respect to carbon sequestration, mortality from fires, droughts, and insects; increase fire resilience at a landscape scale, and effectively manage evacuations and fire suppression activities. California's researchers, with considerable support from the State, are developing and deploying new technologies such as LiDAR, computer gaming, and mass-timber construction to fill in some of the blanks. Keith Gilless will outline current research in this area from his unique perspective as a researcher, administrator, regulatory, and forestry professional.