01/2026
Two new position statements that will be published in the next few weeks where Dr. Kaarakka served as the lead author. More here.
08/2025
Research coming from great grad-students (Rose, Garcia, Bencshing) this fall on carbon offsets, forest modeling and redwood fire management. Stay tuned!
11/2024
I am looking for 1-2 MS-students to work on exciting topics in forest ecology and forest policy. More here: https://nres.calpoly.edu/ms-environmental-sciences-and-management
10/2024
New, updated Forest Carbon offset – policy statement from Society of American Foresters available here. Happy to lead the effort! And statement on Biodiversity as a co-lead also out!
02/2024
10/2023
Short blog post on ECE’s website. If you are an early-career person (remember that this includes students!!) – consider joining our section, we are super active!!
10/2023
Our work on forest carbon offsets has been featured in recent articles in the Crosscut and phys.org
08/2023
Excited to take over as the Chair of the Early Career section of Ecological Society of America for 2023-2024.
07/2023
New work on forest carbon offsets in PLOS Climate.
https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000158
05/2023
Suomeksi Helsingin Sanomat-lehdessä.
https://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/art-2000009529637.html
05/2023
Carbon and forest management – thoughts and findings here.
01/2023
Preprint out!
New work on #forest #offset out as a preprint *while it is being peer-reviewed
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.21.500541v1
02/2023
Work from 2021 was one the top articles in Ecological Solutions and Evidence.
10/2021
I was interviewed (In Finnish) for Suomen Kuvalehti (about the drought in California)
05/2021
Honored to be invited to join the Young Academy Finland (sub-section of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters) for the term 2021–2025. Young Academy Finland is a multidisciplinary organization for young researchers that aims to promote research and strengthen the status of science and scholarship in society. Members are invited and nominated by the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters for four-year terms.
03/2021
Two new papers out, check them out here
09/2020
I am happy to announce that I’ll be joining the Department of Natural Resources Management and Environmental Sciences at California Polytechnic State University as an Assistant Professor starting early 2021.
06/2020
Short article about my research at University of Colorado, Boulder (In Finnish)
02/2020
Career story (In Finnish) in Loimu-magazine
Dr. Lilli Kaarakka 
