I talk about the future of this podcast series. Thanks for listening! I also discuss a number of forestry-themed podcasts that I listen to regularly, including:

The Digital Forester: https://open.spotify.com/show/3baKFArEldEhMuZvIcAzEK

Silvicast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1CKQGsrH4t5wylZ1cMnAzR

The Forest Overstory: https://open.spotify.com/show/3KkXYfp4RFWkrcQfHJ2fBA

How much forest carbon is in your state? Here I share a few insights for the U.S. Forest Service's excellent report on forests and their contributions to greenhouse gas emissions and removals. I discuss the states with the biggest gains (hint: the southeast) and losses (hint: Rocky Mountain states) in the last 30 years.

And also:

There remains great interest in understanding the role of forest management in storing and sequestering carbon. While researchers and land managers have a number of tools available to quantify the impacts of forest management on carbon stocks in growing forests, fewer tools are available that depict the carbon stored “off site” in the form of harvested wood products. These can include short-lived products (i.e., paper or pulp) or long-lived ones (i.e., utility poles). Not incorporating harvested wood product data in simulations of forest carbon can underestimate the total amount of carbon being stored, thus diminishing the benefits of active forest management.

In these podcast, I talk about an example case study using data from the long-term silvicultural experiment at the Penobscot Experimental Forest in central Maine. I share how tools like FVS can be leveraged to better understand the contributions of harvested wood products in understanding forest management impacts and the longevity of forest carbon.

This podcast episode provides a recap of what's contained in the latest USDA report on greenhouse gas emissions and removals from US forestlands.

The metaverse can sometimes seem too "futuristic" to impact our work lives. This week I write about how the forestry and analytics community should pay attention to the concepts of digital twins, software interoperability, and decentralized autonomous organizations.

ChatGPT is a chatbot built through artificial intelligence. The reaction to it has been mixed. One of the primary criticisms of ChatGPT is its use in education. I was curious to see how ChatGPT would do with some of the exercises from my statistics textbook, so I tried it out. This podcast describes what I found.

For more information on how data and analytics can empower your forestry organization, visit arbor-analytics.com.

Your stocks may have taken a hit in 2022, but timberlands as an investment were up nearly 13%. The National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF) recently posted fourth quarter and annual returns for their Timberland Index, an index representing 464 investment-grade timberland properties with a market value of $24.5 billion. This podcast describes the Index and how it's performed with other metrics of the US economy and markets.

For more information on how data and analytics can empower your forestry organization, visit arbor-analytics.com.

Have you heard about the no-code movement in data science? In short, the no-code movement is a type of web development that allows for the creation of software using a graphical user interface, rather than writing code.

This podcast will describe the no-code movement and compare it to a "code-first" approach to performing data analysis.

The US national forest inventory has information contained from over 130,000 forest inventory plots across the country. Data collected and maintained by the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program are needed for answering core forestry questions, and having the right tools to help extract specific data that fits the analysis is essential.

What can forestland and blockchain technology have in common? One opportunity for forest owners is decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs. One group recently purchased a tract a of land in Wyoming and is operating it as a DAO. In this podcast I describe the prospects of how DAOs could play a role in forestland ownership and forest management.