First Friday All Climate Change Talks (FFACCTs)
The Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center hosts First Friday All Climate Change Talks (FFACCTs), monthly information sharing forums featuring presentations about research activities focused on climate change impacts to eastern forest ecosystems. Scientists from the USDA Forest Service Northern and Southern Research Stations participate in the 1 1/2 hour web-based meeting on the first Friday of every month. While these calls are research focused, participants internal and external to the Forest Service are encouraged to join the discussion.
View the FFACCTs flyer for details. For additional information, please contact Perdita Spriggs, (828) 230-3292 or pspriggs@fs.fed.us.
Connection information
When: first Friday of every month, 11:00 ET
How: Click this link* to join the web-based meeting. For audio, dial 888-858-2144 and enter passcode 3950958#.
Real-time captioning is provided by Caption Colorado. A link and instructions for accessing real-time captions are emailed to FFACCTs participants prior to the meeting. Contact Perdita Spriggs at pspriggs@fs.fed.us to be added to the mailing list.
*Microsoft Office Live Meeting can be downloaded at no cost here.
FFACCTs presentations
The role of harvest residue in rotation cycle carbon balance in loblolly pine plantations - presented by Asko Noormets, North Carolina State University/Eastern Threat Center, 5/3/13
Agenda for May 2013 FFACCTs (PDF)
Changes in the abundance of tree species under climate projections for the Central Hardwoods and Central Appalachians - presented by Frank Thompson, Northern Research Station, 4/5/13
Notes from April 2013 FFACCTs (PDF)
Agenda for April 2013 FFACCTs (PDF)
Why bigger, better, faster forest growth is a recipe for disaster in a world with changing climate - presented by Steve McNulty, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, 3/1/13
Notes from March 2013 FFACCTs (PDF)
Agenda for March 2013 FFACCTs (PDF)
Forest Adaptation in Action: The Next Phase of the Climate Change Response Framework - presented by Maria Janowiak, Northern Research Station, 2/1/13
Notes from February 2013 FFACCTs (PDF)
Agenda for February 2013 FFACCTs (PDF)
What is PINEMAP and how could it help you? - presented by Heather Dinon, State Climate Office of North Carolina, 12/7/12
Notes from December 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Agenda for December 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Biomass and bioenergy research in Northern Forest Futures Project and its importance for the National Forest System - presented by Michael Goerndt, University of Missouri postdoctoral fellow working with the Northern Research Station, 11/2/12
Notes from November 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Agenda for November 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Trick or Treat? Good and Bad Interactions between Climate Change and Other Forest Stressors - presented by Steve McNulty, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, 10/5/12
Notes from October 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Agenda for October 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Climate Change and the 2012 Planning Rule - presented by Anthony Erba; Director of Planning, Appeals, Litigation, and Landscape-Scale Conservation; Forest Service Eastern Region; 9/7/12
Notes from September 2012 FFACCTS (PDF)
Agenda for September 2012 FFACCTs (PDF) 
Water Supply Stress Index (WaSSI) Model - presented by Peter Caldwell, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, 8/3/12
Notes from August 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Agenda for August 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Management Options - presented by Jim Vose, Southern Research Station, 6/1/12
Notes from June 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Agenda for June 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Foresters counting atoms: the U.S. forest carbon inventory - presented by Christopher W. Woodall and Grant M. Domke, Northern Research Station, 5/4/12
Notes from May 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Agenda for May 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)Integrating climate change considerations into new and existing programs and initiatives - presented by David Cleaves, USDA Forest Service Climate Change Advisor, Washington, DC, 4/6/12
Notes from April 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Agenda for April 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Looking back to inform the future: climate change adaptation lessons from long-term silvicultural studies on experimental forests - presented by Brian Palik, Northern Research Station, 3/2/12
Notes from March 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Agenda for March 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Integrating future change into conservation planning in the South Atlantic region - presented by Rua Mordecai, South Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative, 2/3/12
Notes from February 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Agenda for February 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Linking ecosystem, landscape, wildlife, and climate models to predict changes to Central Hardwood landscapes and wildlife - presented by Frank Thompson, Northern Research Station, 1/6/12
Notes from January 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Agenda for January 2012 FFACCTs (PDF)
Introduction to the DOI Southeast Climate Science Center - presented by Jerry McMahon, Director, Southeast Climate Science Center, 12/2/11
A Large and Persistent Carbon Sink in the World's Forests - presented by Yude Pan and Rich Birdsey, Northern Research Station, 11/4/11
Southern Forest Futures Project - presented by Dave Wear, Southern Research Station, 10/7/11
Online Carbon Calculators from the Northern Research Station - presented by Mark Twery, Northern Research Station, 8/5/11
Managing Forests in an Uncertain Climate - presented by Steve McNulty, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, 6/3/11
Monitoring and Modeling Stream Temperature Response to Climate Change: Lessons Learned from the Northwestern U.S. with Utility for Other Parts of the Country - presented by Daniel Isaak, Rock Mountain Research Station, 5/6/11
To join the Climate Aquatics blog mailing list, contact Daniel Isaak at disaak@fs.fed.us.
Carbon, Climate, and Energy Connections Associated with Short Rotation Woody Crops - presented by Ron Zalesny, Northern Research Station, 4/1/11
A Framework for Assessing the Relative Risk of Genetic Degradation to Forest Trees Affected by Climate Change and Other Threats - presented by Kevin Potter, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and North Carolina State University, 3/4/11
State of the Climate: Recent Developments - presented by Deke Arndt, Climate Monitoring Branch Chief, NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, 2/4/11
Climate Change, Changing Forests: Impacts of Climate Change on Forests of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada - presented by Lindsey Rustad, Northern Research Station, 2/4/11
Sensitivity of Water Yield Response to Potential Changes in Forest Cover and Climate in the U.S. - presented by Ge Sun, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, 1/7/11
Global Tree Range Shifts under Forecasts from Two Alternative Global Climate Models Using Two Future Scenarios - presented by William Hargrove, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (co-authors Kevin M. Potter, Frank H. Koch, and Forrest M. Hoffman), 12/3/10
A Multi-Phase Approach to Assessing Potential Changes in Eastern U.S. Tree Distributions - presented by Louis Iverson, Northern Research Station (co-authors Anantha Prasad, Stephen Matthews, and Matthew Peters), 12/3/10
Climate Change, Land Use, and Latitudinal Shift of Introduced Species - presented by Qinfeng Guo, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, 11/5/10
- Climate Change Resource Center
- Climate Change Adaptation: What Federal Agencies Are Doing - A Report by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Collaboration with Mexico to Reduce Deforestation and Forest Degradation - presented by Craig Wayson, Northern Research Station, 10/1/10
Future Wildfire Potential Trends in the South - presented by Yongqiang Liu, Southern Research Station, 10/1/10
- Trends in global wildfire potential in a changing climate (Forest Ecology and Management 259:685-697)
An Overview of the SPRUCE Experiment at the Marcell Experimental Forest - presented by Stephen Sebestyen, Northern Research Station, 9/3/10
Potential Changes in Transpiration with Shifts in Species Composition Following Hemlock Loss - presented by Chelcy Ford, Southern Research Station's Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, 9/3/10
- Hemlocks Declining Fast (Compass magazine, Issue 10)
Template for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Management Options - presented by Steve McNulty, Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, 8/6/10
Predicting Forest Dieback in Maine, USA: A Simple Model Based on Soil Frost and Drought - presented by Allen Auclair, USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, in cooperation with Warren Heilman, Northern Research Station, 8/6/10
Climate Change Response Framework for Landscape Management: A case study - presented by Chris Swanston, Northern Research Station and Northern Institute of Applied Carbon Science, 6/4/10
