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This week I hunted online for good allometric equations for calculating biomass and carbon stock of trees. I realize that I still haven’t used GIS for my GIS course project, but we’re getting there, and hey datas half the battle anyway! I finally found a good equation to calculate dry weight biomass (DWB), which isContinue reading “Post 2: baby steps”

This past week I measured DBH and calculated the height of the 21 trees on the lawn outside of Roger Bacon. Top angle, bottom angle, and distance weer obtained with a clinometer and distance tape and were used to estimate the tree’s height (in meters). The trigonometric equation to find the height is expressed inContinue reading “Post 1”

Carbon Stock of Campus Trees Eileen FitzgeraldSiena College515 Loudon Road, Loudonville, NYFebruary 3 2020 Introduction The global carbon cycle is a complex system of sources and sinks. The role of sinks in this system is of particular interest in determining climate change mitigation strategies, as one of the most prolific greenhouse gases is CO2. AmongContinue reading “Project Proposal”