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Vassar College lacks a comprehensive inventory of its trees or estimates of their carbon sequestration, making it difficult to assess the campus's net carbon emissions. Yet trees play acritical role in climate regulation by storing carbon in their…

This is work for my thesis, in which I am examining the effects of urbanization on the abundance and diversity of birds in wetland habitats. I used the point count method to determine bird abundance and diversity at four wetland sites– Vassar Lake,…

This experiment was conducted as a final project for ENST-124 in the spring of 2026. Our experiment built off of a previous one conducted in the fall 2025 semester. We replicated the methods of that project to continue evaluating the effect of lawn…

This class project compares the impact of the presence of leaf litter on the invertebrate diversity in various locations on Vassar's campus.