New NASA grant funded to study forest regeneration!

The SEEDS lab, in collaboration with Duke University, has received approximately 1 million from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to study forest recruitment change in the eastern United States. We will partner with the Pennsylvania (PA) Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and develope end-user decision supporting tools to understand forest regeneration potential and the vast community that depends on it. PA DCNR is contributing approximatley $450,000 in-kind support for this project. Other PIs on this grant include Dr. Jim Clark from Duke University and Dr. Marc McDill from our department at Penn State. More details on this research theme can be found here.