Lara T. Murray

Treesearch Publications

• Sonja Oswalt, Renate Bush, Lara T. Murray, David Walker. 2026. Forest Resources of the United States, 2022
• Holly L. Munro, Christopher W. W. Woodall, William R. L. Anderegg, Colin M. Beier, Bronson P. Bullock, Kendall DeLyser, David D. Diaz, Bianca N.I. Eskelson, Margaret E. K. Evans, Jeff W. Atkins, John D. Foppert, Bryan C. Foster, Thomas R. Fox, Jereme M. Frank, Robert E. Froese, George C. Gaines, Peter Gould, Temesgen Hailemariam, Edie Sonne Hall, Katherine A. A. Heckman, Eileen Helmer, J. Aaron Hogan, Coeli Hoover, Stephen M. Kinane, David W. MacFarlane, Lara T. Murray, Gregory Paradis, Krishna P. Poudel, Stephen P. Prisley, James L. Rakestraw, Hector Restrepo, Ajay Sharma, John D. Shaw, Erin Smith-Mateja, Curtis L. VanderSchaaf, Can Vatandaslar, Aaron R. Weiskittel, Sheng-I. Yang. 2025. Challenges and Strategic Recommendations for Enhancing Quantification and Projection of Forest Carbon Dynamics
• Katherine Renwick, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Christopher Mihiar, Lara T. Murray, Reid Lewis, Peter Beeson, John W. Coulston. 2025. Evaluating the current status of agriculture-driven deforestation across jurisdictional scales in the United States using foundational, federal datasets
• Christopher W. W. Woodall, Holly L. Munro, Jeff W. Atkins, Bronson P. Bullock, Thomas R. Fox, Coeli Hoover, Stephen M. Kinane, Lara T. Murray, Stephen P. Prisley, John D. Shaw, Erin Smith-Mateja, Aaron R. Weiskittel, William R. L. Anderegg, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Kimberly Novick, Benjamin Poulter, Ajdin Starcevic, Courtney Giebink. 2025. Prioritizing Opportunities to Empower Forest Carbon Decisions Through Strategic Investment in Forest Modeling Capacity
• Lara T. Murray, Sonja Oswalt, Sara A. Goeking, Katherine Renwick. 2025. Forest definitions applied for national United States forest reporting: Status, gaps, and opportunities
• Lara T. Murray, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Andrew J. Lister, Keith Stockmann, Hongmei Gu, Shawn P. Urbanski, Karin Riley, Eric J. Greenfield, Christopher Farley, Hans Andersen, Linda S. Heath, Jeff W. Atkins, Grant M. Domke, Andrew C. Oishi, James Smith, Richard Birdsey, David Skole, Stephen Prisley, Anthony D’Amato, Ethan Belair, Eric Marland, Prakash Nepal, Poonam Khatri, Indroneil Ganguly, Richard Bergman, Kamalakanta Sahoo, John D. Shaw, Jens Stevens, Thomas Buchholz, John Gunn, Lisa McCauley, Joe Fargione, Alexis Ellis, David J. Nowak, Mark Majewsky, Christopher Mihiar. 2024. Quantifying greenhouse gas sources and sinks in managed forest systems
• Kathleen McGinley, Lara T. Murray, Guy Robertson, Eric M. White. 2023. National report on sustainable forests, 2020
• Anthony W. D'Amato, Christopher W. W. Woodall, Aaron R. Weiskittel, Caitlin E. Littlefield, Lara T. Murray. 2022. Carbon conundrums: Do United States' current carbon market baselines represent an undesirable ecological threshold?
• Jennifer Hayes, Lara T. Murray. 2021. Research Improves Climate-Smart Management of America's Forests and Grasslands

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

• Dave, R., Saint-Laurent, C., Murray, L.T., et al. 2019. Second Bonn Challenge progress report: application of the Barometer in 2018. International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) ISBN: 978-2-8317-1980-1
• Bernal, B., Murray, L.T., Pearson, T.R.H. 2018 Global Carbon Dioxide Removal Rates from Forest Landscape Restoration Activities. Journal of Carbon Balance and Management, 13:22.
• Murray, L.T., Sidman, G., Grais, A., Bernal, B., Pearson, T.R.H., and Sohngen, B. 2017. Northern Ghana Land Use Environmental and Economic Valuation Study. A Report for the United States Agency for International Development Feed the Future Ghana Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Project (USAID Ghana AgNRM).
• Pearson, T.R.H, Brown, S., Murray, L.T., Sidman, G. 2017. Greenhouse gas emissions from tropical forest degradation: an underestimated source. Carbon Balance and Management 12 (1), 3. DOI: 10.1186/s13021-017-0072-2
• Goslee, K., Brown, S., Walker, S.M., Murray, L.T., Tepe, T. 2015. Review of aboveground biomass estimation techniques. Winrock International under High Carbon Stocks Study.
• Dietmar, S., Murray, L.T., Kirchner, A., Lindner, A. 2014. Influence of Soil and Topography on Aboveground Biomass Accumulation and Carbon Stocks of Afforested Pastures in South Eastern Brazil. Ecological Engineering 73: 126-131.

• Project
  

  Development of a standard quantification methodology for avoided wildfire emissions

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/bil-development-standard-quantification-methodology-avoided-wildfire-emissions
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Other Publications

• Business Report
  

  Research Improves Climate-Smart Management of America's Forests and Grasslands

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/understory/research-improves-climate-smart-management-americas-forests-and-grasslands

Multimedia

• Webinars

  SCIENCE x Planning for Forests of the Future: National Report on Sustainable Forests

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/science-x-planning-forests-future-national-report-sustainable-forests
• Webinars

  FFACCTS Webinar: Empowering Forest Landowners and USDA Programs - Progress on the Revised USDA GHG Entity-Scale Accounting Guidelines

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/ffaccts-webinar-empowering-forest-landowners-and-usda-programs

• Dresden University of Technology, Institute of International Forestry and Forest Products, MSc Tropical Forestry, Forestry, 2012
• University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences, MSc Forests and Livelihoods, Forestry, 2011
• Temple University, BA Geography and Urban Studies, Geography, 2009
• Temple University, Tyler School of Art, BA Art History, Art History, 2009