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Werner Kurz
Senior Research Scientist, Global Change and Landscape Ecology, Canadian Forest Services, Canada
Dr. Kurz is a Senior Research Scientist at the Canadian Forest Service (Natural Resources Canada) in Victoria, BC. He holds a Ph. D. in Forest Ecology from the University of British Columbia. He is the lead scientist in charge of the development of Canada's National Forest Carbon Monitoring, Accounting and Reporting System and the development of the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector (CBM-CFS3). His research focuses on the impacts of natural disturbances, forest management and land-use change on forest carbon budgets.
Dr. Kurz was Author of five Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) including the Chapter on Forestry Mitigation Options in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (Working Group 3). He is the Coordinator of the Carbon Task Force of the International Union of Forest Reseach Organisations (IUFRO) and is appointed as adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia and at Simon Fraser University.
For further information and publications see: http://carbon.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca