{"id":472,"date":"2018-11-05T17:13:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T17:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/?p=472"},"modified":"2019-08-26T15:20:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:20:02","slug":"nau-scientists-publish-first-estimate-of-carbon-emissions-from-2014-mega-fires-in-canadas-boreal-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2018\/11\/05\/nau-scientists-publish-first-estimate-of-carbon-emissions-from-2014-mega-fires-in-canadas-boreal-forests\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU scientists publish first estimate of carbon emissions from 2014 mega-fires in Canada\u2019s boreal forests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-473\" src=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/PR_illustration_Walker-887x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"887\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/PR_illustration_Walker-887x1024.jpg 887w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/PR_illustration_Walker-887x1024-260x300.jpg 260w, https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/PR_illustration_Walker-887x1024-768x887.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott Goetz<\/strong> recently collaborated with researchers <strong>Xanthe Walker<\/strong>, <strong>Michelle Mack<\/strong> and <strong>Ted Schuur<\/strong> from NAU&#8217;s Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS) on a study estimating carbon emissions from an unprecedentedly large fire in Canada&#8217;s Northwest Territories (NWT). Accurate predictions of carbon emissions are necessary to predict future climate feedbacks.\u00a0 This study examined the major sources of heterogeneity that impact carbon emissions at different scales.\u00a0 This increased understanding can be used to improve high resolution modeling of carbon emissions across understudied areas.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more about this study <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nau.edu\/mega-fires-canadas-boreal-forests\/#.W-BvkJNKjIV\">here<\/a>, and read the full article in\u00a0Global Change Biology\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/gcb.14287\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Goetz recently collaborated with researchers Xanthe Walker, Michelle Mack and Ted Schuur from NAU&#8217;s Center for Ecosystem Science and Society (ECOSS) on a study estimating carbon emissions from an unprecedentedly large fire in Canada&#8217;s Northwest Territories (NWT). Accurate predictions of carbon emissions are necessary to predict future climate feedbacks.\u00a0 This study examined the major &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/2018\/11\/05\/nau-scientists-publish-first-estimate-of-carbon-emissions-from-2014-mega-fires-in-canadas-boreal-forests\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NAU scientists publish first estimate of carbon emissions from 2014 mega-fires in Canada\u2019s boreal forests&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goetzlab.rc.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}