Urban ForestryChristopher Nytch
2015 The Garden Club of America Zone VI Fellowship in Urban Forestry
Christopher Nytch, Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Science, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, wins the Fellowship for a second year for his research in an understudied area—tropical urban forests. He is researching the potential for storm water mitigation by urban forests in tropical urban watersheds. In 2014 he collected original data on the partitioning of rainfall by tree structure in the Rio Piedras watershed. In 2015, he will look at the collective role of urban forests and the amount of territory they cover from several geographic positions in San Juan. An immediate goal is to incorporate forests and other green infrastructure into urban landscape design to control flooding.
The Garden Club of America Zone VI Fellowship in Urban Forestry
To advance the field of urban forestry by encouraging students to study the planning, management, horticulture and ecology of urban forests, and the effect of healthy urban forests on people and the environment.
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