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Seeing the trees for the forest: WHRC scientists creating national biomass and carbon dataset

After completing a two-year pilot phase, Woods Hole Research Center scientists are expanding the scope of the "National Biomass and Carbon Dataset" for the year 2000. NBCD2000 will be an invaluable baseline data set for the assessment of carbon stock in US forest vegetation, improving current methods of determining carbon flux between vegetation and the atmosphere. Work on the remaining mapping zones will be completed at a rate of roughly one every seven working days.

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