We had the pleasure of resurveying a portion of Fishback Creek this week. A cross-section was surveyed and the bedload sediment was sampled as part of a field exercise in fluvial sediment transport being conducted by Dr Kathy Licht’s G334 SedStrat class.
Service learning on October 24th took place at Holliday Park on the north side of Indianapolis. This project was done in conjunction with Don Miller, Land Stewardship Manager for Indy Parks.
Sustainability Day at IUPUI, part of the Campus Sustainability Day movement, was held October 22 at Campus Center. Campus Sustainability Day is a nationally-celebrated tradition since October 2003, and it is held annually on the 4th Wednesday of October at colleges and universities across the United States.
This semester we have scheduled thirteen projects which will serve up to 350 students. We have six sites of interest in and around Marion County. Eagle Creek, Marott Park, and Southeastway Park have alredy taken place with a great turnout!
In August we wrote that we were making significant progress on the Starkey Farms Edge of Field sampling, and the School Branch National Water Quality Initiative. Shortly after that post we identified some additional funding needs that slowed our progress.
A new project is getting ready to start at CEES: Edge of Field. Led by Dr. Pierre-Andre Jacinthe of the IUPUI Department of Earth Sciences, Edge of Field is designed to determine whether improvements in water quality can be achieved by altering farm management practices (like fertilizer application) at Starkey Farms in Hendricks County.
On Saturday, September 27, I had the privilege of attending the 2014 Indianapolis Prize Gala at the JW Marriott, which honored Dr. Patricia C. Wright, the 2014 Indianapolis Prize Winner. According to the Indianapolis Prize’s website, the prize is “given every other year to an individual who has made extraordinary contributions to conservation efforts involving… Read more »
On September 13, Indy Parks and our service learning team removed several invasive species from Eagle Creek Park.
The 8th Annual Indiana Bat Festival was held on Saturday, Sept 13 at both IUPUI’s Lecture Hall and Garfield Park.
Greetings to all! My name is Jessica Davis, and I’m the new Assistant Director of CEES. As a native Hoosier, I’m incredibly excited for the opportunity to get involved in ecological research, education, and outreach in my hometown of Indianapolis.