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Today you will learn from expert guest William Moomaw about forests as carbon sinks, why it may or may not help solve climate change, how it works and what needs to still be done for it to be an effective solution to climate change.
Dr. Bill Moomaw was also founding director of the Tufts Institute of the Environment, Tufts Climate Initiative, and co-founder of the Global Development and Environment Institute.
His research interests include increasing the role of forests and wetlands to achieve climate goals, energy technology and policies that address climate change, water and climate change, economics and geochemistry of the nitrogen cycle, sustainable development, and negotiation strategies for environmental agreements.
Dr. Moomaw has been a lead author of five major Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports. As a Science Fellow, he worked in the U.S. Senate on energy and forestry legislation and on legislation that eliminated American use of CFCs in spray cans to protect the ozone layer. He was the first director of the climate program at the World Resources Institute in 1988 where he met board member, George Woodwell. He has been elected an American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow.
He is the past chair of the Woodwell Climate board, and currently serves on the boards of The Climate Group, Earthwatch Institute, Center for Ecological Technologies, and the Consensus Building Institute. He graduated from Williams College and holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from MIT.
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Our guest recommends learning the following skills:
Activity: Reforestation Plan Proposal
Description: Choose a degraded area and develop a reforestation or afforestation plan. Include species selection, planting strategies, and projected ecological benefits.
Demonstrate mastery of the knowledge and skills presented in this lesson by applying it to the above activity. If, and only if, you have a full understanding and have mastered the knowledge and skills presented in this lesson, select the next lesson in the navigation.
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