A key area of focus for the YCNCC is to advance research relating to how we can scale and enhance the carbon stored in natural ecosystems including forests, soil, and coastal wetlands. Major initiatives include the Center’s Blue Carbon Project and the Yale Applied Science Synthesis Program.
What this project investigates: 1) The role industrial plantations can play in increasing the carbon stored in soils and above-ground biomass as…
What this project investigates: The potential for forest regrowth and regeneration in places where forests are “fragmented” or interspersed with…
What this project is about: Estimating the climate mitigation potential of liana management in Central Appalachian and Mid-Atlantic forests of…
What researchers want to know: The optimal locations of large-scale seagrass and mangrove restoration to lower global temperatures and reduce…
What this project investigates: How moose impact carbon storage in forests and what population size would be optimal for enabling carbon storage and..
What researchers want to achieve: To build and validate tools that quantify methane production and methane degradation rates in places where methane..
What this project investigates: How temperature, grazing, and acclimation affect carbon capture and storage by algae…
