Converting between the volume and weight of wood has always been a nuisance for foresters. Species have different wood properties and are sold into different product classes, complicating converting between the two.

This podcast describes the development of simple wood volume-to-weight conversion factors for 2,500+ species in the US. 

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

In this podcast I talk about my new book, Statistics in Natural Resources. Applications with R. This new book focuses on the application of statistics in the environmental and natural resources disciplines.

The book is now available for pre-order and will ship August 19. Use discount code ASM07 before Sept 30, 2022 when you order through the Routledge website: http://www.routledge.com/9781032258782

How do you visualize the carbon stored across an entire state? A data dashboard! This podcast describes a recent project summarizing the trends and status of carbon in Minnesota's forests.

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

Harvested wood products in use and solid waste disposal sites represent 4.5% of the total amount of carbon in the United States. So don't overlook them when summarizing forest carbon numbers! Read more here: https://arbor-analytics.com/post/2022-04-23-harvested-wood-products-in-the-forest-vegetation-simulator/

The statistics community has had a lot of discussion in recent years about the role of p -values and statistical significance. What does this mean for forest biometricians and analysts that have traditionally used p -values and tests of significance in their daily work?

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

The price of carbon continues to climb. The settlement price of one metric tonne of carbon at the California Air Resources Board's May auction was $30.85 in, a 9% increase from November.

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

“Half of the biomass of a tree is carbon.” This has been a widely spoken statement made by many foresters and scientists alike. So what makes up the other half of biomass?

The R program is one of the most popular programs being used by forest analysts today. Forest analysts use R packages, or collections of functions and data sets, to help guide their everyday work. There are over 18,000 R packages archived on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) repository. R users also make packages available on GitHub, particularly for specific disciplines like forest inventory and measurements. 

This episode focuses on packages that are specific to the discipline of forest inventory. These are packages developed “by foresters, for foresters”. 

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

On April 22, 2022, President Joe Biden signed an executive order directing federal land managers to define and inventory mature and old-growth forests. The work will occur over the next year and will require work from the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to identify threats to older trees.

The forestry community is focused on carbon, and the question of quantity versus quality of credits is increasingly being raised. Credits associated with forest carbon are bringing new opportunities to landowners and the investors that value timberlands. This podcast describes different aspects about the quality and quantity of carbon credits, a difference that's been at the forefront of many conversations in forestry in the last six months.