NCASI Biometrics Working Group Meeting

1
NCASI -Biometrics Working Group Meeting

• Le Pavillon Hotel
• New Orleans, LA
• March 4, 2009

2
Biometrics Working Group Meeting AgendaWednesday
March 4th, 2009Le Pavillon Hotel, New Orleans,
La

• 800 815 -Welcome and Overview John-Paul
  McTague Chair (Rayonier)
• 815 835 -Biomass Energy and Sustainable
  Forestry Al Lucier NCASI
• 835 855 -State thoughts on the impact of
  bioenergy on forest sustainability Dave
  Struble Maine Forest Service
• 855 - 915 -How is FIA Accommodating New Demands
  from carbon and energy projects Greg Reams
  FIA
• 915 945 -Details of the new biomass
  estimates Mark Hansen FIA
• 945 1000 -Science based credibility and
  carbon decision support Linda Heath FIA
• 1000 1030 -Break
• 1030 1050 -Limitations of FIA data for
  projecting supply DaveWear USFS
• 1050 1110 -Emerging interests in carbon
  offset projects and additionality Nadine Block
  AFPA
• 1110 1120 -Can FIA Become the Foundation for
  a Nationwide Strategic Carbon Inventory? Rich
  Guldin Director of Quantitative Sciences - FIA

3
Agenda

• 1120 1140 -The components of change in FIADB
  3.0 Frank Roesch FIA
• 1140 - 1200 -Plans to improve estimators to
  better utilize panel data John Coulston - FIA
• 1200 100 -Lunch
• 100 120 -Hardwood Weight Equations Ray
  Souter USFS Stoneville,MS
• 120 200 -Status of RPA reporting Brad Smith
  - USFS
• 200 220 -FIA GRM data Where does it come
  from? Chris Oswalt - FIA
• 220 240 - Seamless Landownership data for
  Forest Inventory
• and Assessment of Changes in Management
  Practices Shailu Verma - Lanworth
• 240 300 -Are FIA data useful for forest
  certification? Paul Van Deusen -NCASI
• 300 330 Break
• 330 350 -Data privacy issues Getting access
  to FIA plot locations and ownership data Greg
  Reams - FIA
• 350 430 -Discussion and action items J.P.
  McTague

4
Please visit http//ncasi.uml.edu/downloads/BWG/

• Biometrics Working Group Meeting MaterialThe
  BWG is administered by NCASI.  The BWG organizes
  meetings where knowledgeable forest biometricians
  from academia, government forestry agencies and
  industry discuss technical issues.  Meeting
  topics are often related to the USDA Forest
  Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA)
  program.  However, technical issues on carbon
  monitoring or sustainable forestry are also of
  interest.  Items from the January 2008 BWG
  meeting
• 1) Jacksonville Meeting Minutes 2) Jacksonville
  Meeting Presentations (if available)
• John Paul McTague  Introduction
• Greg Reams  FIA Annual Business Report
• Fred Cubbage  Using FIA Data for Economic
  Development and Planning.
• John Moser   What is Analysis Quality?
• Paul Van Deusen Frank Roesch  Interpretation
  of FIA Growth and Removals Estimates
• John Coulston   Physical constraints on timber
  availability in the South A multivariate
  approach.
• Ray Sheffield  Historical Perspective on Forest
  Area Estimation
• Tony Johnson  Southern Timber Harvest and
  Product Output
• Linda Heath  FIA Data Quality and the US Forest
  Carbon Budget

5
2008 Jacksonville Meeting Minutes
6
2008 Jacksonville Meeting Minutes
7
(No Transcript)
8
(No Transcript)
9
2008 Jacksonville Meeting Minutes
10
Linda Heaths 2008 Presentation
Only the latest data for the State
11
Local equations for biomass?
12
Current FIA Methodology

• DRYBIOT (Total gross biomass oven-dry weight for
  live trees). The total above-ground oven-dry
  biomass of a tree 1.0 inch diameter or larger,
  including all tops and limbs (but excluding
  foliage).

13
Other alternatives
14
The most widely used alternative for volume

• Enhancements have been made to these equations
• Weight estimates are available
• Results have not been divulged