The CRC for Greenhouse Accounting is presenting a 3-day short course on forest carbon measurement for forest and land managers, and the wider community. The principal aim in the course is to provide insight into the practice of forest carbon estimation, in the context of current national and international carbon trading considerations. The course content is guided by the official Australian Greenhouse Office Protocol for Sampling Tree and Stand Biomass (NCAS Technical Report No. 31, released 2001), and incorporates hands-on field-based measurement modules. The course will be of interest to forest resource managers, land managers, consultancies with an interest in this area, and related public and private sector industries.

Further details about the course, including a registration form, are available on the Greenhouse Accounting web site at www.greenhouse.crc.org.au; the closing date for registration is Monday 8 October 2001. Registration is limited to 16 participants.

Topics to be addressed include

• The current context of Carbon Accounting, in Australia and internationally
• Measuring above-ground tree biomass
• Estimating stand biomass
• Measuring root and soil biomass
• Scaling up from the project level to the regional, State and national levels (including statistical methods, remote sensing and modelling)

The course will be presented by senior Forestry and Carbon Accounting experts from CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products, State Forests of New South Wales, the Australian National University, Queensland Department of Primary Industries and others, with field support from ACT Forests.

The CRC for Greenhouse Accounting reserves the right to postpone or cancel the course at any time.