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EFETAC Carbon Sequestration Research Appears in Compass Magazine
SGCP ecologist and team leader Steve McNulty's research on forest carbon sequestration following major disturbances is explained in the twelfth issue of the Southern Research Station's quarterly Compass magazine. The issue's theme is, "How do hurricanes affect forest resources? Lessons from Katrina and Rita". Read the article here or download the issue (PDF).
EFETAC Scientist Featured in Blue Ridge Country Magazine
The November/December 2008 issue of Blue Ridge Country magazine features Steve McNulty, ecologist and team leader of EFETAC's Southern Global Change Program. In an article by Steve Nash entitled "Double Vision: Climate Change Comes to the Mountains", McNulty discusses concerns about climate variability. Read a sample of the article on the Blue Ridge Country website, or download a printable PDF.
EFETAC's Climate Change Research Highlighted in Compass Magazine
The tenth issue of the Southern Research Station's quarterly Compass magazine, themed "What do forests have to do with climate change?", contains several articles that feature EFETAC's climate change-related work, an interview with EFETAC director Danny C. Lee, and an introduction to four new EFETAC scientists.
The Fate of Southern Forests: Impacts of Climate Change and Variability
Scenarios and Climate Change Models
Going Up Turkey Creek: Modeling Water Availability in the Coastal Plain
Turning Up the Heat...On a Bubbling Cauldron of Forest Threats
Snapshot From the Field: A Director Undaunted by Threats
You Can't Always Get What You Want: My Experience Building an Earth Friendly Home
Download Compass Issue 10 (PDF)
EFETAC Scientist Featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered
On January 21, 2008, National Public Radio (NPR) aired a story entitled "Trees Lost to Katrina May Present Climate Challenge" as part of the Climate Connections series on the daily news program All Things Considered.
New research has determined that the hundreds of millions of trees killed or damaged on the Gulf Coast during the 2005 hurricane season "have become an unexpectedly large contributor to global warming."
Steve McNulty, ecologist and team leader with EFETAC's Southern Global Change Program, has been using field surveys and aerial photography in an attempt to quantify the carbon dioxide that will be released from the trees damaged as a result of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Steve's work, along with that of Tulane University biology professor Jeff Chambers, is discussed in the Climate Connections story. Visit the NPR website to listen to the story or to read the transcript.
Asheville Citizen-Times Reports Launch of EFETAC's New Web Tool
EFETAC Director Danny C. Lee was interviewed following the initial release of EFETAC's forest threat summary viewer tool. The following article appeared in the Asheville Citizen-Times on December 19, 2007.
Forest Service unveils new threat summary online
by Dale Neal
ASHEVILLE - Trees face plenty of enemies these days, from insects, invasive species, wildfires and even climate change. Now new technology might help weigh the risks and provide protection to the nation's forests.
Viewers can click on the forest threats summary viewer, a new online tool from the U.S. Forest Service’s Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center headquartered in Asheville. The viewer is available at the center’s Website at www.forestthreats.org.
The foresters worked with the National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center at UNC Asheville to develop the new search engine. “People are often looking for basic information about a particular insect or an invasive plant and how it might affect them. We wanted to have a good search tool in one place for folks who can be overwhelmed by information,” explained Danny C. Lee, director of the center. More...
EFETAC Director Danny C. Lee Introduced in Compass Magazine
The summer 2005 issue of Compass magazine, a quarterly publication of the Southern Research Station, profiled Danny C. Lee and his vision for the newly formed EFETAC research work unit.
Danny Lee Seeks Help to Manage Forest Threats
by Claire Payne
Danny Lee, director of the recently established Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, grew up a couple of hours from Asheville in Sevier County, TN. He has come back East to tackle threats prioritized by the USDA Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth: loss of open space, invasive plants, unmanaged recreation, and fire and fuels, as well as forest pests, disease, pollution, and natural disturbances such as hurricanes. Lee says learning how the Forest Service can best address these and other issues will make for very interesting collaboration with colleagues and partners.
“I like the integrative nature of the work,” he says. “The dynamics of bringing people to the table with their separate interests, expertise, and ideas are very challenging.” More...
