Effects of the Development of the Baikul-Amur Mainline Railroad on Patterns of Boreal Forest Cover and Carbon Fluxes in Southern Siberia

This document is the second annual report for Grant Number NAG5-6045 from ERIM International, Inc, titled Effects of the Development of the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railroad on Patterns of Boreal Forest Cover and Carbon Fluxes in Southern Siberia. During the second year of this project, ERIM activities were focused on three technical areas, as well as preparation of journal articles to document the results to date. These include: a) the BAM corridor: alternate coarse-resolution imagery and ancillary datasets (fire, carbon) b) analyses of land cover change in the Chuna River intensive site, Krasnoyarsk region c) analyses of fire activity in the Gursky intensive site, Khabarovsk region and greater Russian Far East d) Preparation of Tynda site data for analysis and e) one published article and working outlines for two additional articles in process.