CTPA Compartmentalization workshop May 20, 2010

[KTSmith]

The Connecticut Tree Protective Association is hosting a workshop on compartmentalization at the Sessions Woods Wildlife Management Area in Burlington, CT on May 20th. I'm expecting to do some autopsy/dissection stuff. Should be fun! More information is at:
http://www.ctpa.org/TreeDecayWorkshop.pdf

 

[Starlet]

thanks for the info. kt, i will be there sounds interesting, i just printed out the form. look forward to seeing you.

 

[KTSmith]

The organizers have been doing some tomography at the site, followed by tree dissection. I'm hoping we can do some real-time comparisons. Whether or not that happens, we should be able to look at boundaries in wood and the how/when/why they form. Of course, this sort of thing is "performing without a net" in that we never know for sure what we will see. That helps make it fun!

 

[guymayor]

What did the real-time comparisons reveal?

 

[KTSmith]

The "real-time" was a little less than real, but my verdict was "OK, not great". Bob Marra of the CT Ag Expt Station is working with a grad student on this, not so much for arboriculture as it turns out, but to estimate carbon storage (or carbon not stored) in stems. Folks seemed to enjoy it, though.