Can Adirondack Forests Help Fight Climate Change?
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 - 16:01
in Earth & Climate
Environmental studies and sciences professor Kurt Smemo and student researchers Daniel Casarella '18 and Jen Cristiano '18 have embarked on an ambitious, multiyear study to identify a primary factor for controlling organic-matter decomposition in forest ecosystems--processes that either capture or release carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and therefore mediate our climate system.