Lincoln Park 9 Feb 2013 (Mainly trees)

Lincoln Park 21 Sept 2012

Lincoln Park, Night of 25 August 2012

Sky Over Lincoln Park

Some of my undergraduate urban ecologists and I spent the afternoon yesterday talking photographs of the tree canopy in Lincoln Park (in that section west of the Alfred Caldwell Lily pond and north of the Conservatory).  In all we processed 14 hemispherical canopy images (they overlapped to some extent) and calculated that in this section of the park the canopy is about 62% open (standard error of about 1.8%).  The canopy will provide even more shade as leaf-out continues. There are 2 fairly sizable sycamores there that have yet to emerge and they will shade the area quite nicely.

(The analysis was done with Gap Light Analyzer). 

Three Urban Pilgr-images Part II (23 March 2012)

Joggers, rain, Lincoln Park March 23 2012

Lincoln Park Pilgrimage - Bill Jarvis Migratory Bird Sanctuary

Three Urban Pilgr-images Part I

Three Tree Pictures - Foster to Lawrence

Previous post in this series: Near Kathy Osterman Beach/Lincoln Park, and Bryn Mawr to Foster for Lincoln Park, Chicago and Custer - Dempster/Chicago - Ridge for Evanston, Illinois

Three Tree Pictures - Bryn Mawr to Foster

Three Tree Pictures - Near Kathy Osterman Beach/Lincoln Park

Sneek a Peek at DeepMap Lincoln Park

A Small Sample of the Lincoln Park Tree Map

We are still in the early days of preparing our tree map of Chicago's Lincoln Park  DePaul undergraduates Core Cote, Jake Hartle, and Erin Weber worked on this over the last couple of years.  We have most of the trees in the park mapped, species identified, sized, and the condition evaluated. 

On this map (prepared by DePaul Geography major Alex Ulp) we display just a little taste of a large data set (this shows a fraction of the total tree population mapped). Ultimately, and hopefully before too long, we will complete the map.  I'll be recruiting more students to work on this in Spring.

I'll keep you posted.

A nice little Chicago Tribune piece on our work can be found here.  DePaul covered the story here.