Project Updates
Fall 2013
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Over the last few months the Healthy Trees, Healthy People
research team has conducted a needs assessment survey to identify how urban forestry professionals throughout the US identify and prioritize
tree planting locations. Our aim is to understand how and in what way we can
assist urban foresters, urban planners, and public health officials identify tree planting locations for improving the quality of
life for residents.
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Summer 2013
Visit our Mid Project Summary Report for more detailed information!
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A special thanks to our summer volunteers for all their hard work helping gather data!
Christine Kendrick, Linda George, Jacinda Mainord, Timea Deakova, Travis Gobbi, Jeremy Parra, Lynda Byers, Sarita George, Meenakshi Rao, Laura Krause, Bennett Battaile, Eileen Lorber, Hannah Davidson, Vivek Shandas, Silas Aho, Desiree Arceneaux and Heather Justus | |||
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Needs Assessment Survey
One of the primary goals of Healthy Trees, Healthy People is to develop a an online mapping tool that helps in identifying locations where urban canopy can improve public health conditions. In order to ensure the tool is sensitive to the needs of professionals currently working in the field, the team will conduct a survey to identify these needs. The survey will cover 2 primary areas: 1.) current program goals, priorities and challenges and 2.) how an online, spatially explicit tool can best help participants address goals, priorities and challenges. If you would like to participate in this survey please contact Graduate Research Assistant Mandia Gonzales at mandia@pdx.edu. |
Field Campaign
The team is gearing up to perform an additional field campaign. In addition to N02, this campaign will also measure N0. The team will also be extending measurements to include areas of Vancouver, Hillsboro, Gresham & Wilsonville. 
Summer Campaign Sites
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Travel awards, UEP presentation, and the HtHp Environmental Pollution paper
Healthy Trees, Healthy People has been invited to present their research findings at this years Urban Environmental Pollution conference in Beijing, China this November. One of our big focuses this fall will be to find funding attend the UEP in Beijing, preparing the best presentation we can for the UEP, and working on our paper titled “ Healthy Trees, Healthy People: Assessing the relationship among urban trees, nitrogen dioxide, and human health” to submit to the issue of Environmental Pollution based on the conference proceedings. |
Spring/Summer 2012
- HtHp Core Team developed a sampling strategy for the summer air quality monitoring field campaign
- Selected our 200+ sampling sites to be split up between two 2-week sampling events
- Aug/Sept - Distributed and collected sampling devices throughout the Metro Region
- Devised methodology for calculating canopy height/density at each sampling point using LIDAR
Winter 2012
- Held meetings with Advisory Council and PI 's (March)
- Completed website - launched in March
- Began spatial data analysis for Portland
- Coordinated April meeting with the TAC
Fall 2011
- Project Kick-off
- Meeting with Primary Investigators to discuss beginning stages of project
- Outreach to urban foresters and public health officials in study area cities for Technical Advisory Committee (TAC)
- Began project website construction
Summer 2011
Received US Forest Service grant for Healthy Trees, Healthy people.
Received US Forest Service grant for Healthy Trees, Healthy people.
