Newsletter: May 2026
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EmailSummer is almost in full swing, and we would like to share some exciting updates and resources with you! Please find these announcements below.
Hello FCCP Community,
Summer is almost in full swing, and we would like to share some exciting updates and resources with you! Please find these announcements below.
- Professional Online Courses
- News + Events
- Career Opportunities
- Research + Resources
-- The Forest Carbon and Climate Program Team
A Note From the Director
We’re going to try something new! Our newsletter comes out every two months, but in alternating months, we would like to invite the FCCP community (that’s you!) to submit news, resources, and tools for the new FCCP Round Up Newsletter.
To make submissions, use this link. We welcome upcoming events, current happenings, short perspectives, new tools or data, or any other type of announcement related to forest and climate. We would like this to be a community-driven newsletter that highlights the great work of our partners, collaborators, and community members.
Social media is another great way to stay informed, in addition to our newsletters. If you’ve never checked them out, you can find us on LinkedIn and Facebook. I also encourage you to check out our newly updated projects page on our website to learn more about the work we do to support climate-smart forestry. We’re also busy working on new educational programming, so be on the lookout for some exciting news throughout the rest of 2026.
—Chad
Professional Online Courses
For more information, visit our Professional Courses page. This page includes registration instructions, course pricing information, and an onboarding video that outlines what to expect after registration.
News + Events
New Publication: “Assessing the economic tradeoffs of various forest management activities to enhance carbon sequestration efforts in Pennsylvania and Maryland”
This paper analyzes the economic tradeoffs between carbon and timber management strategies in mid-Atlantic forests, showing that diversifying management strategies can balance economic and ecological goals.
FCCP facilitates forest carbon pathways workshop at Tuskegee University
FCCP helped facilitate a workshop with the Forest Owner Carbon and Climate Education (FOCCE) program to build forest and carbon resilience among landowners, students, and professionals.
FCCP presents at the National Adaptation Forum in Pittsburgh, PA
This talk highlighted the role forest certification can play to incentivize forest adaptation.
New Report: “Modeling climate-smart forestry and wood utilization for climate mitigation potential in Minnesota”
This report quantifies mitigation potential of climate-smart forest management wood utilization strategies for the state of Minnesota.
FCCP participates in the Penn State Climate Solutions Symposium and an ACT-AT partnership stakeholder discussion
The ACT-AT project team convened a stakeholder discussion in Pennsylvania, and a panel titled “Stakeholder-Driven Insights on Forest Carbon Offsets from the ACT-AT Forests Project.”
Career Opportunities
Climate Impact Specialist, The Green Climate Fund
To lead and support the GCF’s mandate by ensuring that GCF-funded activities deliver measurable, credible, and high-quality climate mitigation and adaption results. resources to land trusts.
Editor in Chief, Journal of Forestry
The Editor in Chief serves at the pleasure of SAF for a contract term of three years, extendable for one additional three-year term. The Editor in Chief works closely with SAF’s publications staff, production and publishing vendors, Associate Editors, and at times directly with authors, reviewers, and readers, for the benefit of the Journal and the Society.
Forest Ecologist, Save the Redwoods League
This role provides scientific and technical leadership for restoration planning, field implementation, and monitoring; translates forest science into on-the-ground action; and serves as a technical resource within partnership efforts including Redwoods Rising and the Giant Sequoia Lands Coalition.
Research + Resources
2025-2026 Forest + Climate Learning Exchange Series
The 2025-2026 Forest + Climate Learning Exchange Series is a wrap! But find our complete library of webinars going back to 2017 on our YouTube page.
SFI Regional Climate Change Risk Summaries for the Southeast US, Northeast US and Lake States, and Northwest US
These summaries provide information on a changing climate and summarize regional climate vulnerabilities by dominant forest types.
Keep Penn’s Woods Healthy: A Tool to Assess the Risk and Resilience in Changing Forests
Penn State, in collaboration with Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science and the USDA Northern Forests Climate Hub, developed a new tool to help Pennsylvania woodland owners assess the resilience of a woodland. Keep Penn’s Woods Healthy: A Tool to Assess the Risk and Resilience in Changing Forests provides background information on healthy forest characteristics, examples of potential adaptation strategies, and guides and checklists to help woodland owners evaluate their woods and take action to improve resilience with changing conditions.
Please feel free to forward this newsletter to friends and colleagues.
Sincerely,
MSU FCCP
Submit to the FCCP Forests and Climate Round Up here: https://forms.gle/2qoP6UPEfxcCmPdp6
