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Bard grad students to pilot COMET model for Columbia County agricultural emissions

Columbia County Climate Task Force · December 5, 2024
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Bard Center for Environmental Policy instructor Jennifer will use graduate students to run the USDA COMET model to estimate emissions from field crops and test alternative practices; the pilot may inform county agricultural emissions methods and feed into CDRPC’s municipal inventory protocol.

Jennifer, an instructor at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy, told Columbia County’s Climate Task Force she will use her graduate students to pilot the USDA COMET model to estimate greenhouse‑gas emissions from field crops in the county. The exercise will model typical crop systems and soils, compare conventional practices to greenhouse‑gas‑sensitive alternatives (for…

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