Canadian Forest Service Update NASA ASTM6

Canadian Forest Service Update - NASA ABoVE ASTM6

Jason Edwards Climate Change Adaptation Lead Canadian Forest Service/Natural Resources Canada/ Government of Canada [email protected]

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources, 2017 ABoVE project collaborations and working group participation Projects • Goetz (TE 2018): Mapping and modeling attributes of an arctic-boreal biome shift: Phase-2 applications within the ABoVE domain (Campbell, Castilla & Hogg) • Duncanson (TE 2018): Mapping boreal forest biomass density for the ABoVE domain circa 2020 with ICESat-2 (Wulder & White) • Bourgeau-Chavez (TE 2018): Understanding the Interactions between Wildfire Disturbance, Landscape Hydrology and Post-Fire Recovery in Boreal-Taiga Ecosystems (Krezek-Hanes & Whitman)

Working Groups • participation focused on vegetation and disturbance working groups.

Long-standing collaboration with GNWT to derive a large area forest inventory in the Taiga Plains ecozone largely exceeding currently available inventories:

• Inventory includes maps in both polygon (2 ha min size) and raster (30 m pixel size) of forest type, stand height, tree cover, stand volume, biomass and stand age.

• Some 200 forest inventory plots established for this purpose were remeasured by GNWT in 2016-2019 and are now part of the network of PSPs in NWT.

• A remapping exercise for c. 2020 is underway to replace c.2010 maps. This include improved prediction of forest and fuel structural attributes from the synergy of SAR (UAVSAR, PALSAR-2, RCM, Sentinel-1) , optical (Landsat- 8, Sentinel-2) and LiDAR data (ICESat-2, ALS).

Contact: [email protected] Download: http://cwfis.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/datamart

• The Canadian Forest Service Tree-Ring Database (CFS- TRenD 1.0)is an unprecedented integration and validation system for tree-ring data pertaining to Canada’s forests • The data repository currently contains tree-ring measurements from 40,206 tree samples from 4,594 sites and 67 tree species from all Canadian provinces and territories • The CFS-TRenD database greatly increases the amount of data available for improving the capacity to predict forest growth responses to climate change and provides a foundation for national-scale applications

(MS In Review, Global and Planetary Change)

CFS Tree Ring Working Group: André Arsenault, Catherine McNalty David Gervais, Martin Girardin, Elizabeth Campbell, Jag Bhatti, Jill Harvey, Juha Metsaranta, Miriam Isaac-Renton, Ted Hogg, Trisha https://treesource.rncan.gc.ca/en/home Hook, Xiao Jing Guo Reconstruction of multimillennial fire activity in the boreal forest of central Northwest Territories (Canada)  To determine whether the current fire regime (last 500 years) is within or outside the natural range of variability recorded during the Holocene  To decipher the respective roles of temperature and vegetation controls on past fire activity

Fire frequency

Biomass burning

Fire size

Project members: Dorian Gaboriau, Hugo Asselin, Adam Ali, Martin Girardin, Christelle Hély *Black horizontal lines represent the mean for the period 500-0 cal. yrs. BP Western Boreal Regional Integrated Assessment

PI: Elizabeth Campbell , Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, BC

1. Characterize recently observed forest change trends • climate tree growth/mortality; disturbance severity, wetland , etc., Tree growth • field surveys, tree-ring data, remotely sensed data responses to drought & insect 2. Landscape model simulations of climate change impacts disturbance • forest succession, disturbances biomass, forest landscape composition • uses multi-modular modelling platform (developed by E. McIntire) • compare outcomes to other model projection approaches Projected biomass change 2100, 3. Scenario-modelling climate change adaptation options CCSM, RCP 8.5 • key forest management goals: timber, carbon, caribou habitat (prelim. Results • socio-ecological resilience/trade-offs for southeast study region) Northwest Territories Forest Vulnerability Assessment • Leads: Jason Edwards; Jakub Olesinski ([email protected])

• Focused primarily on the Dehcho region but includes part of South Slave region • Key issues – Supply of forest resources and habitat in a changing climate and policy context (i.e., caribou, new parks) – Lack of data, e.g., Permafrost thaw effects on forests – GNWT is establishing new legislation on numerous issues, including forestry – Defining Sustainable Forest Management from a northern perspective and in a changing climate • Goal: – Integrate existing and new CFS research into a vulnerability assessment of NWT forest resource and wildlife planning.

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources, 2017 CFS - NASA ABoVE key contact: Jason Edwards Climate Change Adaptation Lead Canadian Forest Service/Natural Resources Canada/ Government of Canada [email protected]

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources, 2017 Natural Resources Canada 10 Canadian Forest Service (CFS) Provides science and policy expertise and advice on national forest sector issues, working in close collaboration with the provinces and territories.

Growth and Innovation: Rooted in Sustainable Forests

Priorities: • Support forest sector competitiveness • Optimize forest value • Advance environmental leadership

• >600 staff; ~70 research scientists

© Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources, 2017 © Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources, 2017