The Finger Lakes Payment for Ecosystem Services Pilot Program and Cornell Cooperative Extension host Nicholas Cranmer to share the LiDAR field methods that were trialed to assess above ground woody carbon, the protocol that was developed, and opportunities to improve future carbon quantification in agroforestry systems in our region, particularly small-scale farms with diversified production. 

 Nick is a PhD student in Cornell’s Biosphere Modeling and Monitoring (BioM2) Lab - which is a nationwide leader in forest carbon research. Since 2024, Nick has led efforts at the BioM2 Lab to develop protocols for quantifying carbon sequestration on small-scale farms with diversified production systems that include agroforestry practices. The work has focused on a set of three LiDAR scanning approaches, and from November 2024-April 2025 Nick and collaborators at CCE Tompkins piloted these measurement approaches on seven farms in the broader Tompkins County region.

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