2025 Learning Exchange Series: Permanence
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EmailWebinar one of the 2025 Learning Exchange Series is titled "Permanence." Ensures that carbon is stored in forests in the long term, that carbon credits sold hold carbon value beyond the life of the project.
Webinar One: Permanence
Identifying Forest Carbon Offset Permanence Research Priorities
Speakers
Matt Hurteau, Professor, University of New Mexico
Matthew Hurteau is a Professor of Quantitative Ecology in the Department of Biology at the University of New Mexico and Director of the Center for Fire Resilient Ecosystems and Society. His research focus is on understanding how climate change and disturbance alter the distribution of tree species and carbon dynamics across landscapes. He works extensively with land managers and policymakers at the local, state, and federal level to facilitate science informing decision-making. http://www.hurteaulab.org/
William Anderegg, Professor, Wilkes Center Director, University of Utah
Dr. William Anderegg is the director of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science and Policy and a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Utah. He was a NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral fellow at Princeton before that. Dr. Anderegg earned a B.A. in Human Biology and Ph.D. in Biology from Stanford University. Dr. Anderegg has been recognized by National Science Foundation’s Alan T. Waterman Award, National Science Foundation Faculty Development Early Career Science Program (CAREER), Blavatnik Foundation National Laureate in Life Sciences, Web of Science Global Highly Cited Researcher, and Packard Foundation Fellow for Science and Engineering.
Dr. Anderegg’s research centers broadly around the intersection of ecosystems and climate change. His group studies how climate change and climate extremes affect ecosystems, including tree physiology, ecohydrology, carbon cycling, pollen and health impacts, and nature-based climate solutions. A major recent focus of his research revolves around urgently-needed, interdisciplinary, and rigorous science to inform forests’ potential role in nature-based climate solutions, carbon markets, and climate policy. His group is developing tools to inform and guide decision-making and policy, including novel datasets on climate risks to ecosystems and carbon projects.
Christopher Galik, Professor, North Carolina State University
Christopher Galik is a professor in the Department of Public Administration and Deputy Director of the Climate and Sustainability Academy at North Carolina State University. His research leverages institutional theory, economics, and the natural and physical sciences to address energy and environmental management and policy challenges.
Rebecca Sanders-DeMott, Director, Ecosystem Carbon Science, Clean Air Task Force
Rebecca Sanders-DeMott is the Director, Ecosystem Carbon Science on the Land Systems team at Clean Air Task Force. She is an ecosystem ecologist with expertise in terrestrial carbon cycling and methodologies related to verification and quantification of nature-based climate solutions. She is focused on analysis of land-based carbon management, carbon dioxide removal (CDR), and carbon markets to support policy advocacy for robust standards and diverse financing approaches. https://www.catf.us/experts/rebecca-sanders-demott/
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