The CEES team is preparing to survey new channel cross-sections for the Pleasant Run Stream Corridor Naturalization Project to monitor how the channel and floodplain are developing.
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Spring 2013 Educational Outreach: Out and About
CEES educational outreach staff members and Discovering the Science of the Environment’s popular watershed model will be attending the Metropolitan School District of Pike Township’s March 7 Math and Science Community Fair as well as the March 15 and 16 Indiana Going Green Festival at the Indiana State Museum.
Spring Service Learning to Begin in March
Our Spring 2013 service learning event dates have been set for March and April. Service learning coordinator and graduate student, Amy Smith, has arranged eight events in our local parks and greenspaces.
DSE Developing New Curriculum
Discovering the Science of the Environment staff are currently developing program extension kits that follow from DSE programs Ecosystem Investigation and Chemical Water Quality Assessment. The kit development and materials are funded by a Dow Promise grant, from Dow AgroSciences.
Comprehensive 3-year watershed baseline data collection project draws to a close
As a partnering organization with the Eagle Creek Watershed Alliance (ECWA), the IUPUI-Center for Earth and Environmental Science (CEES) has finished aiding in the completion of a second 319 grant as provided through the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.
DSE Programming Wraps Up For Fall
With these unseasonably warmer than average temperatures, it’s hard to believe that the DSE Mobile Technology Trailer Programs have officially ended for the season! In just 14 short weeks this fall, 1580 students in 62 classes received programs ranging from Pond Ecosystem Investigation to Woodland Soil Study to Wetland Chemical Water Quality Assessment.
Geist Reservoir has an unwanted visitor that may never leave: the dreaded Zebra mussel (Dreissena polymorpha)
Zebra mussels are very prolific breeders, with adult females producing anywhere from 30,000 to 1.6 million eggs per year. The zebra mussel is a filter feeder, with each adult capable of clearing the algae from a quart of water each day.