Carbon Sequestration on Vassar Campus

Carbon Sequestration on Vassar Campus

carbon sequestration

In a world increasingly plagued by anthropogenic heat due to airborne emissions, the mitigation of such emissions is all the more effective when carried out by entities with more sway. Moreover, trees provide a critical sink of greenhouse gases through their utilization of carbon dioxide for photosynthesis and thus are crucial in analyzing the harms of emissions generated by Vassar College, a campus classified as an arboretum. As students and residents of Vassar, a school of almost 2,500, we set out to research the carbon sequestration capabilities of its standing biomass and, in conjunction, the magnitude of its CO2 emissions to quantify the necessity of a cutback in its emissions.

Rosner, Levi

05/13/2025

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ENST124

Essentials of Environmental Science

Knights, Deon

completed

10/2025