Search Results - "Malmsheimer, Robert"

The Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Electricity Production in New York State from Distributed Solar Photovoltaic Systems by Ali, Atif, Koch, Theodore W., Volk, Timothy A., Malmsheimer, Robert W., Eisenbies, Mark H., Kloster, Danielle, Brown, Tristan R., Naim, Nehan, Therasme, Obste

“…New York State’s (NYS) Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) requires that 100% of the state’s electricity supply be greenhouse gas…”
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Forest Carbon Accounting Considerations in US Bioenergy Policy by Miner, Reid A, Abt, Robert C, Bowyer, Jim L, Buford, Marilyn A, Malmsheimer, Robert W, O'Laughlin, Jay, Oneil, Elaine E, Sedjo, Roger A, Skog, Kenneth E

“…Four research-based insights are essential to understanding forest bioenergy and "carbon debts." (1) As long as wood-producing land remains in forest,…”
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Inventory and classification of United States federal and state forest biomass electricity and heat policies by Ebers, Anna, Malmsheimer, Robert W., Volk, Timothy A., Newman, David H.

“…As of September 2013, federal and state governments had nearly 500 policies to support production of electricity and heat from forest biomass. This research…”
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Time Spent in Federal Court: U.S. Forest Service Land Management Litigation 1989–2008 by Keele, Denise M, Malmsheimer, Robert W

“…Abstract The Forest Service has previously indicated litigation as a major cause of project delay, yet no empirical evidence quantifies case duration. This…”
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The financial trade‐off between the production of biochar and biofuel via pyrolysis under uncertainty by Frank, Jenny R., Brown, Tristan R., Malmsheimer, Robert W., Volk, Timothy A., Ha, HakSoo

“…There is a lack of widespread interest in slow pyrolysis biochar pathways relative to other bioenergy pathways because of the perceived absence of biochar's…”
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A Stochastic Techno-Economic Analysis of Forest Biomass Feedstock Supply Chains: Clean and Dirty Chips for Bioenergy Applications by Ha, HakSoo, Brown, Tristan R., Quinn, Ryan J., Volk, Timothy A., Malmsheimer, Robert W., Fortier, Marie-Odile P., Bick, Steven, Frank, Jenny R.

“…This study reports results from a stochastic techno-economic analysis (TEA) model that assessed the financial feasibility of forest biomass harvest for…”
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Life cycle assessment of forest biomass energy feedstock in the Northeast United States by Quinn, Ryan J., Ha, HakSoo, Volk, Timothy A., Brown, Tristan R., Bick, Steven, Malmsheimer, Robert W., Fortier, Marie‐Odile P.

“…Life cycle assessment (LCA) was combined with primary data from nine forest harvesting operations in New York, Maine, Massachusetts, and Vermont, from 2013 to…”
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Towards a Carbon Accounting Framework for Assessing the Benefits of Biogenic Wood Carbon to Net Zero Carbon Targets by Oludunsin Arodudu, Obste Therasme, Timothy Volk, Robert Malmsheimer, Paul Crovella, René Germain, Danielle Kloster, Deepak Kumar

“…Carbon stored in harvested wood products (HWPs) can play an important role in climate change mitigation and needs to be accounted for accurately and…”
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Managing Forests because Carbon Matters: Integrating Energy, Products, and Land Management Policy by Malmsheimer, Robert W, Bowyer, James L, Fried, Jeremy S, Gee, Edmund, Izlar, Robert L, Miner, Reid A, Munn, Ian A, Oneil, Elaine, Stewart, William C

“…The United States needs many different types of forests: some managed for wood products plus other benefits, and some managed for nonconsumptive uses and…”
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Economic feasibility of forest biomass feedstock supply chains: clean and dirty chips for bioenergy applications by Ha, HakSoo, Brown, Tristan R., Quinn, Ryan J., Volk, Timothy A., Malmsheimer, Robert W., Fortier, Marie‐Odile P., Frank, Jenny R., Bick, Steven

“…There is a lack of economic feasibility analyses on the harvesting of forest biomass to supply low‐carbon bioenergy feedstocks using actual data on the mixed…”
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A stochastic techno‐economic analysis of shrub willow production using EcoWillow 3.0S by Frank, Jenny R., Brown, Tristan R., Volk, Timothy A., Heavey, Justin P., Malmsheimer, Robert W.

“…EcoWillow 3.0S is a techno‐economic analysis (TEA) tool that calculates realistic willow biomass production costs using data from field trials of willow…”
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Forest Management Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change in the United States by Malmsheimer, Robert W, Heffernan, Patrick, Brink, Steve, Crandall, Douglas, Deneke, Fred, Galik, Christopher, Gee, Edmund, Helms, John A, McClure, Nathan, Mortimer, Michael, Ruddell, Steve, Smith, Matthew, Stewart, John

“…[...] the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Nabuurs et al. 2007, 543), the preeminent international body charged with periodically assessing technical…”
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Status and prospects for renewable energy using wood pellets from the southeastern United States by Dale, Virginia H., Kline, Keith L., Parish, Esther S., Cowie, Annette L., Emory, Robert, Malmsheimer, Robert W., Slade, Raphael, SMITH, Charles Tattersall (Tat), Wigley, Thomas Bently (BEN), Bentsen, Niclas S., Berndes, Göran, Bernier, Pierre, Brandão, Miguel, Chum, Helena L., Diaz‐Chavez, Rocio, Egnell, Gustaf, Gustavsson, Leif, Schweinle, Jörg, Stupak, Inge, Trianosky, Paul, Walter, Arnaldo, Whittaker, Carly, Brown, Mark, Chescheir, George, Dimitriou, Ioannis, Donnison, Caspar, Goss Eng, Alison, Hoyt, Kevin P., Jenkins, Jennifer C., Johnson, Kristen, Levesque, Charles A., Lockhart, Victoria, Negri, Maria Cristina, Nettles, Jami E., Wellisch, Maria

“…The ongoing debate about costs and benefits of wood‐pellet based bioenergy production in the southeastern United States (SE USA) requires an understanding of…”
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Comment on 'Does replacing coal with wood lower CO2 emissions? Dynamic lifecycle analysis of wood bioenergy' by Prisley, Stephen P, Gaudreault, Caroline, Lamers, Patrick, Stewart, William, Miner, Reid, Junginger, H M, Oneil, Elaine, Malmsheimer, Robert, Volk, Timothy A

“…An analysis by Sterman et al (2018 Environ. Res. Lett. 13 015007) suggests that use of wood for bioenergy production results in a worse climate outcome than…”
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Twenty Years of Forest Service Land Management Litigation by Miner, Amanda M A, Malmsheimer, Robert W, Keele, Denise M

“…This study provides a comprehensive analysis of USDA Forest Service litigation from 1989 to 2008. Using a census and improved analyses, we document the final…”
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Is the Ninth Circuit a Liberal Environmental Activist Court? by Keele, Denise M., Malmsheimer, Robert W.

“…We test the proposition that litigation outcomes in the Ninth Circuit are significantly more activist and liberal on all federal court cases filed over a…”
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Local Regulation of Timber Harvesting in New York State by Forman-Cook, Whitney C., Malmsheimer, Robert W., Germain, René H.

“…Local regulation of timber harvesting can increase the time and capital required to conduct timber harvesting operations. These ordinances are typically…”
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Equal Access to Justice Act and US Forest Service land management: Incentives to litigate? by Mortimer, Michael J, Malmsheimer, Robert W

“…The Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) provides for attorneys fees and court costs to be awarded to parties prevailing in litigation against US federal…”
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2007 Farm Bill: An Opportunity for Forests, Conservation, and Rural Communities by Malmsheimer, Robert

“…SAE is engaging Congress to better incorporate forests and forest owners into the conservation aspects of the bill, as well as in renewable energy…”
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An Analysis of Ideological Effects in Published Versus Unpublished Judicial Opinions by Keele, Denise M., Malmsheimer, Robert W., Floyd, Donald W., Zhang, Lianjun

“…Almost without exception, scholars have tested theories of judicial behavior by relying on published case decisions. Though understandable given the…”
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