Lab Report on Carbon Sequestration at Vassar College Campus

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Title

Lab Report on Carbon Sequestration at Vassar College Campus

Subject

carbon sequestration

Description

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 biomass and sequestering it annually through growth. This project quantifies carbon storage and annual sequestration in a sample of campus trees and scales the findings to estimate total carbon offsets.

Creator

Li, Shawn

Date

05/09/2025

Format

pdf

Language

en

Class Project Item Type Metadata

Course Code

ENST124

Course Title

Essentials of Environmental Science

Professor

Knights, Deon

Status

completed

Last Updated

10/2025

Files

Collection

Citation

Li, Shawn, “Lab Report on Carbon Sequestration at Vassar College Campus,” Vassar Student Sustainability Projects, accessed December 5, 2025, https://sustainabilityprojects.vassarspaces.net/items/show/374.