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(802) 656-0683femc@uvm.eduwww.uvm.edu/femcNortheastern States Research Cooperative funderUnited States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service Northern Research StationleadA qualitative post-treatment tree damage assessment made with leaves off on treated and untreated plots. Forest Ecosystem Monitoring CooperativeJohnCampbellprincipalInvestigatorWallyShortlecontentProviderPaulSchabergcontentProviderLindsayRustadprincipalInvestigatorUsing methods like those used to make snow at ski areas, researchers successfully created ice glaze on tree branches (remarkably similar to conditions during the Northeast’s 1998 Ice Storm) over a large northern hardwood forest area. This novel experimental tool will allow scientists to study controlled icing events of different intensity and frequency in different forest types. Researchers also held a workshop with ecosystem scientists, climatologists, physical scientists, computer modelers, social scientists, and industry experts to define the state-of- knowledge on ice storms and examine the nature and extent of these storms in the Northeast. In addition, they developed machine-learning algorithms which allow computer models to identify unique ice storm climatology in past weather systems to better predict ice storms in the future.Tree Damage AssessmentA qualitative post-treatment tree damage assessment made with leaves off on treated and untreated plots. VMC.1108.2495mySQLhttps://www.uvm.edu/femc/CI4/data/archive/project/experimental-ice-glazing/dataset/tree-damage-assessment2010-12-012011-04-01damage_classDamage classInjury class value based on a visual inspection of the branchesint1No visible damage21% to 49%350% to 75%4>75%5DeaddbhDiameterDiameter at breast heightdecimalmeterrealnotesnotesNo description for this attributetextplotplotNo description for this attributeintno dataspeciesSpeciesTree speciestextabbaITIS #18032, balsam fir (Abies balsamea)acruITIS #28728, red maple (Acer rubrum)bealITIS #19481, yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis)piruITIS #183385, eastern white pine (Pinus strobus)fagrITIS #19462, American beech (Fagus grandifolia)acpeITIS #28754, striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum)bepaITIS #19489, paper birch (Betula papyrifera)tscaITIS #183397, Canada hemlock; hemlock spruce (Tsuga canadensis)tree_idtree_idNo description for this attributeintno data