Project discussion notes
Day 1: March 12, 2024 - CU Boulder
Selected scientific question:
Overarching Research Question: How do different combinations of disturbances (fire, beetle outbreak, and drought) affect aboveground carbon in the Southern Rockies ecoregion?
Specific questions: - What is the relative importance of different disturbances shaping above ground carbon (or drivers of above ground carbon) - At what spatial scales do different disturbances affect above ground carbon? - How does time since disturbance impact above ground carbon in terms of recovery? (recovery) - How does the trajectory of carbon recovery vary among different combinations of disturbances (disturbance history) *
Project Goal
Train a predictive model across disturbance regimes while understanding drivers of above ground carbon storage across the southern rocky mountain region.
Minimum Viable Product
Model: Forest carbon ~ tsF * tsD * tsB + environment Environment - climate, soil, NDVI, spectral diversity, management status, elevation, slope, pft_class (plant functional type class),
Reach Goals
- Build wall-to-wall predictions of forest carbon
- Spatial scaling of model
- Causal model
- Ski resorts/other management regimes
Day 2: March 13, 2024 - CU Boulder
Dataset is accessible. Goals/splitting up work:
- Data cleaning/wrangling
- Exploratory figures
- Training RF model
- Baseline kriging model
- Documentation
Day 3: March 14, 2024 - CU Boulder
- Finalized presentation on github pages website.
- Split up presentation between group members.