Progress report: Biomass energy: The climate-protective domain
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This is a three-year project initiated in 2008 and scheduled for completion in 2011. During the project’s second year, research focused on three main areas. These were (1) the comparative efficiency of transportation services from liquid biofuels versus electricity from biomass, (2) remote sensing of biomass energy deployments and related land-use changes, and (3) modeling the climate consequences of changes in land-surface properties related to biomass energy crops. This was a very successful year for the project. Several papers were published, including papers in Science (Campbell et al. 2009), Nature (Loarie et al. 2009), and Geophysical Research Letters (Georgescu et al. 2009). One GCEP post-doc (Eve Hinckley) moved to a new postdoctoral position at the University of Colorado, and two PhD students (Rachael Garratt and Lena Perkins) started working intensively with the project.
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