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Period of Performance
| July 2009 - October 2009 |
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Capabilities
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CMI Personnel
| Primary Contact Paige Marie Baldassaro
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Our overall project objective is to build on existing interagency efforts at state
and federal levels to develop web-based ecosystem service credit calculators using
remotely-sensed data and vetted best-of-breed models for both farms (tracts) and
watersheds at the 6th-order (12-digit) hydrologic unit level. We will focus on the
following ecosystem services: (1) carbon sequestration in woody biomass, (2) water
quality (sediment and nutrient loading), and (3) habitat/biodiversity as an undergirding
element. Our selected agroecosystem is Southeastern forests, which are at substantial risk for reduced delivery of ecosystem services from both climate and land use change.
Our initial implementation area will be the Commonwealth of Virginia with explicit attention on scalability to enable an eventual rollout to other states in the region.
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