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EFETAC Research Work Unit Charter
Mission
The mission of the Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center (EFETAC) is to generate knowledge and tools needed to anticipate and respond to environmental threats. The most serious threats to forests, and the benefits they provide, inevitably involve complex factors interacting at multiple scales. EFETACs challenge is to maintain a holistic and integrated research program to tackle these complex issues. EFETAC is further charged to deliver knowledge to forest landowners, managers, and scientists in a timely, useful, and user-friendly manner.
Organization
EFETAC comprises three teams, each with regional, national, and international responsibilities. The Threat Assessment team emphasizes integrated approaches to detecting, predicting, and assessing threats to forest health; the Southern Global Change Program (SGCP) team develops conceptual and functional bases for understanding and mitigating forest ecosystem responses to climate change; and the National Forest Health Monitoring Research team develops new monitoring protocols and analytical tools in addition to performing national scale analyses and reports on the health and sustainability of the Nation’s forests.
Problem Areas
Problem 1. Forest Health Monitoring Research
Problem 2. Forest Ecosystem Responses to Global Change
Problem 3. Impacts of Biotic Invasion, Other Stresses, and Their Interactions
Problem 4. Integrated Risk Assessment
