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Members of the CFS Carbon Accounting Team
(CFS-CAT)

Monitoring forest ecosystem carbon stocks and carbon stock changes is a complex and data intensive process. Over the course of the past decade the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) has relied on the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS2), a research tool developed by Dr. Mike Apps and Dr. Werner Kurz, to simulate past, present, and future carbon dynamics at national, provincial, and operational scales within Canada. Both scientists have played leading roles on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). They have contributed to the IPCC Special Report on Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry, the IPCC Good Practice Guidance for Land use, Land-use Change and Forestry, the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, as well as several IPCC Assessment Reports. Through their involvement with the IPCC they have ensured that the model remains compliant with international accounting guidelines. Ongoing work on CBM-CFS3 by the CFS Carbon Accounting Team (CFS-CAT) will also ensure that it incorporates the best available science on forest ecosystem carbon dynamics.

The members of the CFS Carbon Accounting Team are:

• Jim Wood, Director, Forest Information
• Kelvin Hirsch, Director, Forest Research
  
• Werner Kurz, Senior Research Scientist (team leader)
  
• Mike Apps, Senior Research Scientist (retired)
  
• Don Leckie, Senior Research Scientist

• Caren Dymond, Research Scientist (British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range)
• Andrew Dyk, Remote Sensing Research Associate
  
• Stephen Kull, Carbon Accounting Liaison Officer
• Qinglin Li, Carbon Inventory and Modelling Officer (British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range)
  
• Michael Magnan, Computer Scientist
  
• Juha Metsaranta, Carbon Cycling Analyst
  
• Eric Neilson, Carbon Cycling Analyst
  
• Greg Rampley, Computer Programmer/Scientist – Carbon Budget Modelling
  
• Cindy Shaw, Soil Carbon Analyst
  
• Carolyn Smyth, Physical Scientist
  
• Graham Stinson, Physical Scientist - Forest Simulation Modelling
  
• Sharon Sutherland, National Programs Assistant
  
• David Tammadge, Land-use Change Specialist
  
• Sally Tinis, Land-Use Change Specialist
  
• Gary Zhang, Computer Programmer – Scientific Model Applications
• Scott Morken, Junior Software Developer