Over the previous 5 years, alongside companions and collaborators, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has been engaged on snowpack-tree cover interactions within the Japanese Cascades.
A brand new video from the College of Washington (UW) entitled, Frozen Frontiers: Decoding the Snowpack of the Japanese Cascades options this interdisciplinary analysis crew, together with Cassie Lumbrazo, a Ph.D. scholar from UW, who is devoted to understanding the connection between forests and snow.
The snowpack analysis collaborators embody TNC, UW’s mountain hydrology lab within the School of Civil Engineering, led by Dr. Jessica Lundquist, and Dr. Susan Dickerson Lange at Pure Methods Designs.
Collectively, we’re working on the intersection of land administration, water sources, and local weather change to make sure that we each advance conservation science on the world degree, whereas additionally offering actionable science on the local-scale.
TNC began working with Cassie 4 years in the past when she was a masters scholar in Dr. Jessica Lundquist’s lab, supported and inspired her software to NASA to gather the primary snow-on LiDAR knowledge within the Japanese Cascades, and labored with Cassie to develop and submit a challenge proposal to the Washington Division of Pure Assets to fund her Ph.D. analysis on Cle Elum Ridge.
Employees Aquatic Ecologist, Dr. Emily Howe sits on Cassie’s thesis committee, and labored with TNC employees foresters to implement the challenge’s experimental research design on Cle Elum ridge. The experimental design consists of the set up of thinning models on each the north and south facets of the ridge, permitting us to detect variations in snow-tree cover interactions as a perform of tree cover cowl and slope facet, the compass orientation of a slope.
Cassie has labored to increase the plot-level knowledge to bigger panorama scales by collaborating with UW’s RAPID LiDAR crew to fly a second set of snow-on lidar flights over the ridge, after forest restoration therapy.
