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This entry involves a series of reports including Green Building Guidelines and Life Cycle Cost Analysis Guidelines from an EDF project in 2016.

This class project looks at the species diversity, age, and spread of the trees in Vassar's arboretum.

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…

The Billion Oyster Project was founded in 2014 with the initiative to engage New Yorkers in native oyster reef
restoration, which had been functionally extinct in New York Harbor since 1927 due to overharvesting and
pollution. In 2016, they began…

"My senior thesis explores community engagement with ecosystem restoration through the lens of oyster reef restoration. Drawing on connections from my personal and professional experiences, I used the Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group and Billion…

During the First World War, the United Kingdom created so-called “Pals Battalions” formed from groups of men living in the north of England; these battalions were, with little training and very little combat experience, sent into the frontlines at,…

Intending to accurately demonstrate the role of its forest conversation practices, Vassar wants to do a 3rd- party verification of the carbon offset generated through vine removal and reforestation. With these two goals in mind, I was asked to choose…