The University of California San Diego, the Tropical Forest Group, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are pleased to announce a new international certificate program in Advanced Terrestrial Carbon Accounting.This unique program will train professionals from around the world on how to measure forest carbon to the highest standards. By using the latest scientific tools and methods to model forest carbon, participants will be able to provide rigorous estimates of how conserving tropical forests avoids greenhouse gas emissions. In turn, the new certificate course will help participants advance major global initiatives such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD+).
The course will be held over four weeks in August of 2013 on the University of California San Diego campus in southern California. The certificate will cover IPCC Good Practice Guidelines, remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), emissions factors, activity data, various new technologies and methods to estimate carbon, statistics, uncertainty analyses, and communicating results.
Scholarships will be awarded to qualified applicants, however, all applicants should fully explore opportunities with their host country government and/or organization for financial support before applying to the limited pool of scholarships. Women are strongly encouraged to apply.
Application and scholarship information can be found at http://extension.ucsd.edu/TCA. The deadline for applicants outside of the US that require a visa is April 15th. US applicants have until June 15th.
For additional questions, please email Jeff Metcalfe, Director of the Tropical Forest Group (jeff_metcalfe@tropicalforestgroup.org)