Newswise — A geospatial science expert at the University of Arkansas will help refine international guidelines for greenhouse gas inventories that will be considered for adoption by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Jason Tullis, an associate professor of geosciences, is an expert in analyzing satellite imagery and other geospatial data to evaluate a country’s land base and detecting land use conversions, such as from forest to farmland. He will travel next month with 10 other U.S. scientists to participate in an IPCC “scoping meeting” in Minsk, Belarus. The meeting will start and accelerate the formal process of updating the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
Tullis has served as a technical adviser to the U.S. Environment Protection Agency’s Climate Change Division. He collaborated with a colleague at Colorado State University to create software that would improve the calculation of greenhouse gas emissions and removal based on activity data, such as land-use conversion.
“The scientific community has come to the agreement that human activities are playing a big role in climate change,” he said. “Rapidly advancing geospatial science and technology is an important component in national inventories and will be an important factor in the refinement of the guidelines.” Tullis conducts research in the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the U of A. He also provides expertise for SERVIR, a joint development initiative of NASA and United States Agency for International Development that works in partnership with leading worldwide organizations to help developing countries use information provided by Earth observing satellites and geospatial technologies for managing climate risks and land use.
CONTACT: Jason Tullis, associate professor, Department of GeosciencesJ. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences479-575-8784, [email protected]
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