Smart Trees Collaboratory

The Digital City Testbed Center supports the Smart Trees Collaboratory, a group of researchers working to measure and monitor the health of urban trees in Portland and identify their impacts on human health and wellbeing and social equity. This group includes faculty members, students, and researchers from PSU, Reed College, Washington State University-Vancouver, and The Nature Conservancy in Oregon. Our research aims to build a new suite of digital tools for assessing and preserving tree health in cities, and combining that with socio-demographic research to help undo legacies of inequality in accessing the benefits that urban trees and parks provide.