
Steve Colombo
Experience
1. Developing approaches to understand forest vulnerability to climate change
2. Sustainable use of forests for carbon sequestration, including forest management to increase carbon stocks, carbon in wood products, and forest bioenergy to produce carbon offsets
3. Designing nursery management regimes to avoid winter damage and improve seedling quality
4. Developing a provincial testing program to evaluate nursery stock quality for forest regeneration
Skills
• Plant physiology/forest management
• Evaluating forest carbon offset opportunities
• Forest bioenergy offsets assessment
• Plant responses to stress, especially freezing, drought, high temperatures
• Nursery management, overwintering
Technical and Scientific Experience
• Using science to solve nursery and regeneration problems
• Modeled forest carbon, estimated mitigation from bioenergy and forest management
• Used controlled environments and field sites to conduct applied research using appropriate experimental design and statistical analysis
• Synthesized scientific and technical literature to write reports addressing client needs related to nurseries, reforestation, climate change & carbon
• Reports written for a range of users: from executive summaries for Sr managers, scientific papers in high-tier journals, manuals for expert users, plain-language articles for media and general public
• Worked with patent lawyers on U.S. & Canadian patents
• Presentations designed and given to clearly communicate results for specific client needs, from trained professionals requiring in-depth technical details, to senior staff where key messages need to be concisely formulated, and presentations intended for public and non-technical audiences
Project Management
• Initiated & successfully ran multifaceted research and operational projects
• Used the scientific method to assess, evaluate and formulate solutions to complex problems
• Worked with government, industry, academia and non-governmental organizations
Address: EcoView Consulting, Tecumseh, Ontario, Canada
1. Developing approaches to understand forest vulnerability to climate change
2. Sustainable use of forests for carbon sequestration, including forest management to increase carbon stocks, carbon in wood products, and forest bioenergy to produce carbon offsets
3. Designing nursery management regimes to avoid winter damage and improve seedling quality
4. Developing a provincial testing program to evaluate nursery stock quality for forest regeneration
Skills
• Plant physiology/forest management
• Evaluating forest carbon offset opportunities
• Forest bioenergy offsets assessment
• Plant responses to stress, especially freezing, drought, high temperatures
• Nursery management, overwintering
Technical and Scientific Experience
• Using science to solve nursery and regeneration problems
• Modeled forest carbon, estimated mitigation from bioenergy and forest management
• Used controlled environments and field sites to conduct applied research using appropriate experimental design and statistical analysis
• Synthesized scientific and technical literature to write reports addressing client needs related to nurseries, reforestation, climate change & carbon
• Reports written for a range of users: from executive summaries for Sr managers, scientific papers in high-tier journals, manuals for expert users, plain-language articles for media and general public
• Worked with patent lawyers on U.S. & Canadian patents
• Presentations designed and given to clearly communicate results for specific client needs, from trained professionals requiring in-depth technical details, to senior staff where key messages need to be concisely formulated, and presentations intended for public and non-technical audiences
Project Management
• Initiated & successfully ran multifaceted research and operational projects
• Used the scientific method to assess, evaluate and formulate solutions to complex problems
• Worked with government, industry, academia and non-governmental organizations
Address: EcoView Consulting, Tecumseh, Ontario, Canada
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Papers by Steve Colombo
• a synthesis of the current climate change impacts being seen in Ontario;
• a series of maps showing potential future climate across the province in the event international efforts to curb greenhouse gases are not successful at avoiding buildup of atmospheric CO2 concentrations to 450 ppm, resulting in a 4°C increase in global temperature;
• current and projected CO2 emission in Ontario and other Canadian jurisdictions, set against a theoretical cap on emissions that would limit global temperature change to 2°C; and,
• examples of opportunities for emissions reductions in Ontario, in particular in the forest and transportation sectors.
Climate change maps are used to show where the relative hazard produced by climate change might be highest across the province, by combining changes in temperature and precipitation into a single numerical hazard index.
Park is projected to increase from -4.5oC to nearly +2oC and the number of growing season degree days will more than double by the end of this century; this climatic shift would in principle make the park’s climate suitable for the growth of sugar maple. This type of assessment is an important first step in projecting the effects of future climate on Ontario’s ecoregions and natural heritage areas, and helps establish a basis for discussing and developing management strategies and policies to ensure the ecoregion framework remains relevant to land use planning in a rapidly changing climate. Together, these analyses provide novel perspectives on some of the challenges that resource managers are likely to face during the 21st century.