Modelling Forest Carbon

July 3, 1988

ESSA started working on a model of forest carbon for all of Canada, including trees, soils, and the wood forest products that ultimately end up in buildings, libraries, land fill sites or the atmosphere. Modelling forest carbon became the primary focus of ESSA employee Werner’s work over the next 21 years, thirteen of those at ESSA, and the last eight at CFS, including work with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2007. So ESSA can now say that we helped a teeny bit to nurture a Nobel Prize winner!