Urban Effects on Tree Growth in the Vicinity of New York City
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
5 p.m. | Online
In this talk, Dr. Jillian Gregg will discuss her work determining the effect of multiple pollutants and elevated temperature, CO2 and nitrogen deposition in NYC on cottonwood clones grown in urban and rural environments. These are the results from her dissertation research at Cornell University that ultimately became a cover story in Nature Magazine.
About the Speaker
Dr. Jillian Gregg earned her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. She is the founding CEO of Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Associates (TERA), a research group determining the impacts and ecosystem carbon storage feedbacks of human-caused climate change.
