Canadian Forest Service employee directory
Werner Kurz
EMERITUS SCIENTIST
Pacific Forestry Centre
506 Burnside Road West
Victoria,
British Columbia,
V8Z 1M5
Tel.: (250) 999-9999
Profile
- leads the development of a National Forest Carbon Accounting System for Canada and
- research focuses on the impacts of natural disturbances, forest management and land-use change on forest carbon budgets.
Education
- Ph.D. (Forest Ecology) University of British Columbia, 1989; Diplom-Holzwirt, University of Hamburg, 1982.
Affiliations
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For the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) :
- coordinating lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report on Good Practice Guidance for Land use, Land-use Change and Forestry
- lead author for IPCC Special Report on Land use, Land-use Change and Forestry
- lead author for the 2006 IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Guidelines: Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land Use
- lead author IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, Working Group 3 Mitigation
- expert contributor to the Science Statement on Current Scientific Understanding of the Processes Affecting Terrestrial Carbon Stocks and Human Influences upon Them. IPCC Expert Meeting Report, Geneva, Switzerland (2003).
- Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University