2025 Learning Exchange Series: Additionality
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EmailWebinar two of the 2025 Learning Exchange Series is titled "Additionality." The concept that specific actions increase carbon storage beyond what would have been stored without the project.
Webinar Two: Additionality
Addressing uncertainties in the additionality of forest carbon offsets
Speakers
Adam Daigneault, Director & Associate Professor, University of Maine
Dr. Adam Daigneault is the Director and EL Giddings Associate Professor of Forest Policy & Economics at the University of Maine School of Forest Resources. He received a PhD in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from Ohio State University in 2006, and has spent the past decade developing quantitative models to assess the socioeconomic impacts of environmental policy on the natural resource sectors. His research has focused on a wide range of issues, including freshwater management, climate change mitigation and adaptation, invasive species control, and valuing ecosystem services.
Greg Latta, Associate Professor, University of Idaho
Greg Latta is a Research Associate Professor of Forest Economics in the Department of Natural Resources and Society and Director of the Policy Analysis Group in the College of Natural Resources, at the University of Idaho. His work focuses on simulating policy impacts on markets using mathematical optimization techniques. He has been involved in the voluntary forest carbon offset space for well over a decade and has participated in crafting multiple methodologies as well as offset project development work.
Lilli Kaarakka, Assistant Professor, Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo
Dr. Lilli Kaarakka is an Assistant Professor in Forest Management and Silviculture at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Dr. Lilli Kaarakka's research focuses on forest management practices and their implications for carbon dynamics, forest health, and resilience to environmental changes. Her work integrates applied forest science with ecosystem modeling to develop strategies for sustainable forest management.
Margarita Fernandez, Post-doctoral Associate, Pennsylvania State University
Margarita is an ecologist studying carbon sequestration and co-benefits of climate-smart forestry in Pennsylvania's private forestlands. Her work with the Goddard Chair of Forestry & Environ. Conservation at Penn State aims to create solid cooperative research and extension deliverables (both in Spanish and English). She actively collaborates with Penn State Extension and NIACS, the northern institute of applied climate science.
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