Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit: Design and Validation of a Spatially Aware Variant of the BioSum Modeling Framework

Project ID: 22-JV-11261979-041

Federal Agency: U.S. Forest Service

Partner Institution: Portland State University

Fiscal Year: 2022

Initial Funding: $179,998

Total Funding: $179,998

Principal Investigator: Duh, Juinn-Der Geoffrey

Agreement Technical Representative: Fried, Jeremy

Abstract: The purpose of this agreement is to document the cooperation between the parties to Support collaboration between PSU and PNW RMA to improve forest inventory modeling of management alternatives, and their ecological and socio-economic outcomes, particularly concerning efforts to achieve resistance to stand-replacing disturbance and to enhancing greenhouse gas mitigation benefits and the products and services derived from forest ecosystems that are desired by owners and society at large.