by Allison Meier

With each foot of sea level rise, four lines of cherry trees at the Climate Chronograph die. Eventually, the whole grove may be a ghost forest, its pink blooms withered for the last time as climate change shifts the shores in the surrounding Potomac River and Washington Channel. Designed by landscape architects Erik Jensen and Rebecca Sunter of Azimuth Land Craft, the grove is a memorial as much for the future as the past, and is intended to give each visitor a personal experience with climate change.