Building a soil organic carbon field sampling protocol for the Wabanaki region

One of the greatest challenges in monetizing forest carbon for climate change mitigation (i.e. carbon offsets) is in understanding the different carbon “pools”, and being able to accurately quantify them. The soil carbon pool is perhaps the greatest pool of forest carbon, and poorly understood. The objective of this project is to design a forest soil organic carbon sampling procedure that will be accurate, easy to use in the field, and efficient. The intern will undertake a review of academic literature and other draft forest soil organic carbon (SOC) sampling procedures to build a procedure for the Wabanaki forest region (the Maritimes provinces) of Canada. The intern and partner will ensure that the procedure yields high-quality data while also being efficient and practical to implement in the field. The benefit to the partner organization will be a SOC sampling procedure that is immediately usable through its programs.

Faculty Supervisor:

Anthony Taylor

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Partner:

Community Forests International

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of New Brunswick

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