The project focuses on the efficiency of Vassar's heating system. Vassar students were surveyed about their experience with dorm heating and those responses were compared with the temperature of their rooms.
In this project, we sampled soil from across Vassar's central campus to see if there was a noticeable difference in soil health. We measured the depth of OM, total depth, nitrate levels, and leaf litter presence, among other less noticeable things.
In this project, I am focusing on estimating the standing biomass in large campus trees due to prolonged debates about maintaining, tending, and protecting large campus trees for reasons including aesthetic values, carbon storage, other ecological…