David MacFarlane, a professor of measurements and modeling in the department of forestry at Michigan State University, recently completed a six-month sabbatical that took him from the mangrove coasts of Mexico to the alpine forests of Italy. His journey was part of a Fulbright Global Scholar Award aimed at advancing an emerging global approach to forest management known as Climate-Smart Forestry.
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David MacFarlane teaches students in the Alps.
MacFarlane and graduate students take a boat to a remote mangrove plot in the Celestún Biosphere Reserve.
MacFarlane scans mosquito-infested mangrove plot.
MacFarlane teaches students in the Alps.
The FARO Focus laser scanner is at the Orto Botanico of the University of Padova.
Windswept hybrid poplar plantation stands surrounded by a corn field in the Vento region of Italy.
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