CAFRI-NY
News & Research Highlights

News

2023

Researchers at ESF Build a Map-Based Carbon Accounting System to Help NYS Meet Net-Zero Goal

2022

October 24 | CAFRI Oak Barrel Project in the News

September 20 | Governor Hochul Announces New York State Awarded $60 Million in Federal Funds to Advance Smart Climate Practices for New York Farms and Forests

Research

2024

• Estimating merchantable and non-merchantable wood volume in slash walls using terrestrial and airborne LiDAR

2023

• Mapping historical forest biomass for stock-change assessments at parcel to landscape scales
• Forming regional soil carbon networks to support effective climate change solutions

2022

• Fine-resolution landscape-scale biomass mapping using a spatiotemporal patchwork of LiDAR coverages
• Ground-Truthing Forest Change Detection Algorithms in Working Forests of the US Northeast
• Filtering ground noise from LiDAR returns produces inferior models of forest aboveground biomass in heterogenous landscapes
• The Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Electricity Production in New York State from Distributed Solar Photovoltaic Systems

2021

Carbon Cycling and Environmental Impacts from Growing, Harvesting, and Processing Forest Biomass in New York State