Seattle Greenrail: modeling the effects of replacing impervious infrastructure with pollinator­-friendly green space

This was a mock research proposal created for a class in Landscape Ecology. I’m not a big fan of the monorail, and thought it might be neat to study replacing it with an elevated green space like High Line Park in New York. We’d just learned about the modeling program HexSim, so I proposed using it to model pollinator behavior in the Pollinator Pathway on Capital Hill, then applying those models to a greenified monorail, aka Greenrail. Below are my presentation slides, followed by the proposal paper.