Director, Ecosystem Services
Dr. Timothy Pearson is a carbon specialist with over 10 years of experience leading and contributing to more than 100 domestic and international climate change and land use projects. Dr. Pearson has led research and assessment teams, and published dozens of technical reports and articles for peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Pearson is an expert on greenhouse gas accounting for land use at the national, sub-national and project scales. He has authored standards for the VCS and has sat on methodology committees for the Climate Action Reserve and the Bi-national ANSI-Accredited Forest Carbon Standards Committee. He served on the Afforestation and Reforestation Working Group of the CDM, and currently serves on the VCS AFOLU Steering Committee. Dr. Pearson is an innovator problem solving analytical and field measurement barriers and designing new accounting approaches. Examples of innovations led by Dr Pearson include technical leadership for Jurisdictional and Nested REDD, designing leakage approaches for REDD project accounting, creating performance standards for forest management in the US, developing landscape greenhouse gas accounting approaches, and assessing fire emissions and potential emission reduction.
EXPERTISE
PROJECTS
PUBLICATIONS
- Standard Operating Procedures for Terrestrial Carbon Measurement (Vietnamese)August 12, 2018
- Guidance on Applying the Monte Carlo Approach to Uncertainty Analyses in Forestry and Greenhouse Gas Accounting (English and Spanish)February 6, 2018
- Standard Operating Procedures – Selective logging emissions (Spanish)
- Estimation of Selective Logging Emissions in Colombia (Spanish)
- NAMA Decision Support Tool (Spanish)
- Assessment of mangrove ecosystems in Colombia and their potential for emissions reductions and restoration (English)
- Attribution of net carbon change by disturbance type across forest lands of the conterminous United StatesMarch 29, 2017
- Attribution of net carbon change by disturbance type across forest lands of the conterminous United StatesDecember 13, 2016
- Carbon emissions from tropical forest degradation caused by loggingAugust 1, 2014
- Impact of Logging on Carbon Stocks of Tropical Forests: The Republic of Congo Case StudyJanuary 24, 2014
- Impact of Logging on Carbon Stocks of Forests: Chihuahua Mexico Case Study
- Estimation of Aboveground Carbon StocksAugust 12, 2013
- Opportunities and Challenges for Offsetting Greenhouse Gas Emissions with Forests
- Comparison of Different Registries and Methodologies for Reporting Carbon Credits for Afforestation Projects in the United States
- Forest and Carbon Markets: Opportunities for Sustainable Development
- Standard Operating Procedures for Terrestrial Carbon Measurement ManualAugust 9, 2013
- Sourcebook for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry Projects
- Carbon and Co-Benefits from Sustainable Land-Use Management. Deliverable 17: Impact of Logging on Carbon Stocks of Forests: The Brazilian Amazon as a Case Study
- Emissions and Potential Emission Reductions from Hazardous Fuel Treatments in the WESTCARB Region
- Carbon Impacts from Selective Logging of Forests in Berau District, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
- REDD+ Carbon Methodology Development: A Decade of Leadership by Winrock International
- Use of Aerial Digital Imagery to Measure the Impact of Selective Logging on Carbon Stocks of Tropical Forest in the Republic of CongoAugust 8, 2013
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