{"id":1957,"date":"2019-06-27T17:51:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T21:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/?page_id=1957"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:27:23","slug":"morreale-arlington","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/internship-impacts\/morreale-arlington\/","title":{"rendered":"Planting Trees with a Purpose in Arlington, MA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Going from a study to a shovel-ready project for the Town of Arlington<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-1177 profile type-profile status-publish hentry\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/profile\/luca-morreale\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\">\n\t\t\t<img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_Morreale-Luca-e1530886841478-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Luca Morreale headshot\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_Morreale-Luca-e1530886841478-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_Morreale-Luca-e1530886841478-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\t\t<\/figure>\n\n\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Luca Morreale<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Partner:<\/strong> Town of Arlington,\u00a0Spring 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project summary: <\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every year, 200-300 street trees are planted in the Town of Arlington, MA. Most are planted by resident request, but a portion is planted at the discretion of the town. But how should the town decide where to plant trees? Luca created a ranking for all the possible street tree planting sites based on the potential for reducing temperatures as well as suitability characteristics such as land ownership, presence of power and gas lines, as well as existing tree canopy density. His work helped the Town of Arlington prioritize planting sites to maximize benefits for the community and environment. Through the process of creating a useful scientific product, Luca improved his ability to collaborate with multiple parties with different goals and resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Project deliverables: <a href=\"\/urban\/files\/2019\/05\/Morreale_Policy_Brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Policy brief<\/a> and planting priority index maps indicating which open tree pits in Arlington should be planted based on land surface temperature measurements.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1883\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1883\" style=\"width: 646px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/urban\/files\/2019\/05\/Morreale_ArlingtonMap.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2019\/05\/Morreale_ArlingtonMap-636x494.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"494\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1883\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2019\/05\/Morreale_ArlingtonMap-636x494.png 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2019\/05\/Morreale_ArlingtonMap-768x597.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2019\/05\/Morreale_ArlingtonMap-1024x796.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2019\/05\/Morreale_ArlingtonMap.png 1447w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1883\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Results for an Arlington neighborhood from a planting-priority index that ranks possible tree locations based on their temperature, availability of open tree pits, and other suitability factors.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going from a study to a shovel-ready project for the Town of Arlington Project Partner: Town of Arlington,\u00a0Spring 2019 Project summary: Every year, 200-300 street trees are planted in the Town of Arlington, MA. Most are planted by resident request, but a portion is planted at the discretion of the town. But how should the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14382,"featured_media":0,"parent":1881,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4086,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1957\/revisions\/4086"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}