The podcast describes five things to be on the lookout for related to forest carbon programs and markets in 2023. 

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

This podcast describes pandemic assistance to the US forest products industry. I talk about how the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Pandemic Assistance to Timber Harvesters and Haulers (PATHH) programs helped to keep nearly 500,000 workers employed throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the article that summarizes this work in the Forest Products Journal: https://meridian.allenpress.com/fpj/article/72/4/253/488883/A-Summary-of-COVID-19-Pandemic-Assistance-to-US 

This podcast describes new research from the forest biometrics community that focuses on forest biomass and carbon estimation. I talk about new equations that are available to estimate tree volume, biomass, and carbon, forest disturbances, small area estimation, and more. Follow along with the slides available at this LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/matt-russell-70a94824_russell-carb-presentation-activity-7004143872524066818-dht_?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop 

Annual research funding within the forestry sector is about US$600 million. It used to be more, and we need more research dollars to support forestry's challenges in the future. This podcast discusses the erosion of research and development in forestry, and presents a few models from other sectors that we might look to.

The podcast describes how to spot poor data analyses. A talk about a list of "red flags" that can help you spot poor data analyses that you come across.

Our traditional quantitative courses in forestry cover the basics: forest measurements, statistics, and modeling. In this episode I describe several topics that I think the forestry community needs to teach more of in its courses with students.

The Society of American Foresters Convention occurred from September 20-24, 2022 in Baltimore, MD. In this episode, I recap the Convention and highlight a few sessions that resonated with me.

See the 2022 Society of American Foresters Convention website: https://www.eforester.org/Safconvention

The forest products industry is facing a workforce shortage in truckers. Compensation is often mentioned as a challenge.

Read more:https://arbor-analytics.com/post/2022-08-15-comparing-logging-trucker-wages-to-other-trucking-industries/

I’ve been keeping track of auction prices for carbon through the California Air Resources Board for some time. Last month’s auction represented the largest quarter-over-quarter decreases in the settlement price for carbon. This episode discusses the results of that carbon auction and provide some historical perspective on carbon prices.

Read for more information: https://arbor-analytics.com/post/2022-09-07-price-of-carbon-in-carb-decreases-slightly/

This podcast will discuss four new things in R. Learn about the name change for RStudio, what Quarto is, the tidymodels package, and how the learnr package can help teach R concepts. 

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