A recently released report, Managing Forests Because Carbon Matters: Integrating Energy, Products, and Land Management Policy, summarizes and analyzes the most recent science regarding forests and carbon accounting, biomass use, and forest carbon offsets. A team of researchers from the U.S. Forest Service, several universities, and natural resource and environmental organizations coauthored the report, which appears as a supplement to the October/November 2011 issue of the Society of American Forester’s Journal of Forestry.  

Scientists and industry alike are using remotely-operated, sea-going drones to analyze the ocean for everything from oil spill impacts to ocean acidification.  Learn more about this exciting work here.  The Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory is mentioned. 

Right now, the cooking oil jet fuel costs $17 a gallon. But the price is expected to come down — a lot. Could biofuel get cheaper than regular jet fuel? The recent grant to the UW for biofuels research is noted. 

Seattle’s new Winter Weather Response webpage was unveiled Wednesday. The city also has partnered with Cliff Mass, professor of atmospheric sciences, to develop a tool to track and forecast snowfall at the neighborhood level. Read more here. 

“When it comes to keeping carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, it makes more sense to use trees to recycle as much carbon as we can and offset the burning of fossil fuel than it does to store carbon in standing forests and continuing burning fossil fuels.” – a quote from Bruce Lippke, University of Washington professor emeritus of forest resources and co-author of a recently published paper in Forests Read more of this article here!