DEPARMENT OF PLANT SCIENCE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Spring Seminars
Date: Friday, February 8
Location: W.B. Young 002
Accurately accounting for decay & carbon loss in trees: A novel nondestructive approach using tomography
Dr. Marra will present a novel and potentially transformative methodology, using sonic and electrical resistance tomography, for non-destructively quantifying the mass of stored carbon lost to internal decay in the boles of living trees.
Reference:
Marra RE, NJ Brazee, S Fraver. 2018. Environ. Res. Lett. 13 105004
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aae2bf/meta
Join us for pizza!
Speaker:
Robert Marra, Ph.D.
Associate Scientist, Plant Pathology & Ecology
The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
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For more information, contact: PSLA at psla@uconn.edu