Ke, J. 2024. Climate impact assessment under different forest harvesting and fertilization scenarios. MSc thesis, University of British Columbia.
Project
Jinming (Jimmy) Ke MSc thesis
A completed MSc thesis on system-level climate impact assessment for forest harvesting, fertilization, and harvested wood product use scenarios.
Jinming (Jimmy) Ke's MSc thesis developed an open-source forest system climate impact assessment model for evaluating how forest harvesting, fertilization, and harvested wood product use strategies affect climate outcomes.
The thesis connects forest carbon sequestration, forest ecosystem carbon pool dynamics, harvested wood product life-cycle emissions, and avoided emissions from product substitution into a system-level assessment framework.
Scenario analysis explored different harvesting and fertilization choices and highlighted how end-use assumptions for harvested wood products, including long-lived products such as cross-laminated timber and bioenergy substitution pathways, can change the apparent climate performance of forest management strategies.
The project is part of the FRESH research thread on transparent forest-sector climate mitigation modelling and provides a public thesis foundation for subsequent manuscript and software work.
Status
- Past MSc thesis
People And Roles
- Jinming (Jimmy) Ke: MSc student
- Gregory Paradis: co-supervisor
Outputs
- MSc thesis
- Open-source forest system climate impact assessment modelling workflow
- Scenario analysis for harvesting, fertilization, and harvested wood product use
- Thesis-derived manuscript and software links can be added when public