Katherine will speak about voluntary carbon markets, both what they are and how they work with her recent research on market trends, quantifying prices and volumes transacted in the marketplace, and evolving standards.

Paul Hunt, Environmental Manager for the Portland Water District, Thom Kyker-Snowman, Environmental Analyst for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and Fred Gliesing, Senior Forester for the City of New York, discuss the management and protection of urban water supply systems.

Paul Barten, Associate Professor of Forest Resources at the University of Massachusetts, and co-author of Land Use Effects on Streamflow and Water Quality in the Northeastern United States, discusses the complex world of planning for watersheds and proposes a framework for answering the needs of...