The City of Newburgh Conservation Advisory Council (“CAC”) has been an awarded a grant from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (“NYSDEC”) Hudson River Estuary Program to complete a Natural Resources Inventory (“NRI”). The NRI will identify, describe, Read More …
Category: Projects
Beaver Pond Drone Imagery 2016-2023
Vassar Academic Computing Services (ACS) staff have flown multiple drone imagery capture flights over the Beaver Pond area of the Preserve at Vassar for several years in support of ongoing research and teaching about the influence of these animals on Read More …
Public Map: Bicycles and Bicycle Racks On Campus
Bicycles are an important part of Vassar College. Led by Director of Sustainability Cora Kenfield, Vassar students conducted a GIS project on the bicycle racks on campus to evaluate if the current infrastructure is able to support the bike community. Read More …
Mapping the Dutchess County Equality Trail
Dutchess County Historical Society (DCHS) is working to illuminate the path that led to a US constitutional promise of equality after the Civil War, and the ongoing effort to realize that promise. This is the story of individuals, regularly suffering Read More …
Mapping pollinator pathways in the Hudson Valley
Pollinators are animals that help fertilize plants through the spread of pollen, helping plants to produce fruit/seeds. Pollinators include butterflies, bees, flies, hummingbirds, wasps, beetles, moths and bats. With habitat loss being the major reason pollinator populations are in decline, Read More …
Mapping trade routes and ports on the Hudson River to assist Sail Freight
Regardless of how sustainably a product is produced, we are almost completely dependent on fossil fuels for shipping. In order to create a resilient regional economy we need local renewably powered shipping options. The Hudson River is the original super-highway Read More …
Community Greenhouse Gas Inventories
Led by Prof. Mary Ann Cunningham with assistance from Jennifer Rubbo, Director of the Environmental Cooperative at Vassar Barns (the “Coop”), Vassar’s introductory Environmental Science class completed preliminary assessments of community-level greenhouse gas emissions and sequestration for several communities in Read More …
Analyze the urban forest in Poughkeepsie using i-Tree
Building off of previous work mapping habitats and land cover in the City of Poughkeepsie Natural Resource Inventory, a worthwhile future project for the City of Poughkeepsie would be to use i-Tree to analyze the current canopy cover. This would Read More …
Brier Hill Cemetery
Building off of a 2003 study led by Dr. Brian McAdoo, then of Vassar College, Associate Professor of Anthropology April Beisaw and a group of Vassar students resurveyed the grave markers in Brier Hill Cemetery, the graveyard of the former Read More …
A Natural Resources Inventory for the City of Poughkeepsie
The Environmental Cooperative at Vassar Barns completed the Poughkeepsie Natural Resources Inventory over three years, between 2016 and 2019. We worked closely with Vassar College students, faculty, and staff to create maps and write the narrative contained in the report. Read More …
