MY RESEARCH
GEOSPATIAL INQUIRIES INTO CLIMATE CHANGE SOLUTIONS
From left to right, projects were undertaken (1) at Columbia University under the guidance of Professor Kytt MacManus, (2) at Penn State University under the guidance of Professors Jose Fuentes, Chris Forest, and Kennith Davis, with support from Project Drawdown, (3) at Columbia University under the guidance of Professors Kevin Griffin and Pierre Gentine, with support from Project Drawdown
Map: Albedo Warming Potential from Afforestation
Afforestation produces a global cooling effect through carbon sequestration, but it also warms the earth by reflecting less incoming sunlight back into space.
Knowing the relative scale of these effects across space is critical to land-use planning for climate change mitigation.
Working as a undergraduate scholar for Project Drawdown, I used NASA snow-cover and cloud-cover data to produce this predictive map of how much reflective (albedo) warming a hectare of afforestation would cause across the earth's surface between now and 2050.
The link to the full poster is above (quantifying albedo warming).