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Ecology Stillwell, Jacob [1], Whitcomb, Sean [2]. Shade Tree Effects on Campus Energy Use: An Ecosystem Services Analysis. Building energy use in the Phoenix metropolitan area is greatly impacted by extreme radiant heat due to the urban heat island effect and limited green space. Urban trees provide a number of environmental and economic benefits, including a reduction in energy use for heating and cooling of buildings. Students at Mesa Community College have worked with the campus arboretum to collect measurements of the height and diameter at breast height (DBH) of campus trees for use in the analysis of campus sustainability. The authors contributed to this data set using standard field measurement tools and methods. In this study, the tree data were used to estimate the impact of tree shade on building energy use. We used ArcGIS to calculate the distance and direction from 470 trees to the nearest 44 campus buildings, for a maximum of three vectors per tree. We then used the open-source software package iTree Eco to model the interactions between trees and buildings. We will present the impact of tree shade on building energy use (MBTU and Mwh), effects on carbon emitted from energy generation, and the economic value associated with these changes.
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Mesa Community College Arboretum
1 - Mesa Community College, Life Science, 1833 w Southern Ave, Mesa, AZ, 85202, USA
2 - Mesa Community College, Life Science, 1833 W Southern Ave, Mesa, AZ, 85202, United States
Keywords:
Urban Heat Island
Ecosystem Services
Urban Trees
Geospatial
modeling
Carbon Emissions
Sustainabillity .
Presentation Type: Poster
Session: P1, Ecology Posters
Location: Virtual/Virtual
Date: Monday, July 19th, 2021
Time: 5:00 PM(EDT)
Number: P1EC024
Abstract ID:465
Candidate for Awards:None |
