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Road Construction Leads to Wetlands Research On Campus

Road Construction Leads to Wetlands Research On Campus

For anyone who has traveled to ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ over the summer, the Summit Street construction project has been quite an inconvenience for drivers. For Lauren Kinsman-Costello, though, it’s an opportunity to make the campus more ecologically friendly and establish trends in biology, chemistry, geology and ecology.

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Up on the Roof

Up On The Roof

What some call a sustainable answer to urban flaws, Anna Droz calls research. As a biological sciences doctoral student in ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ’s College of Arts and Sciences, Droz’s curiosity has developed into a passion, maybe even an obsession, to discover the best vegetative roof combinations with the optimal plants, soil, and micro-organism communities.

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toxic waters

Teaming Up To Tackle Toxic Waters

Like a financial analyst who pores over numbers to predict the next big trend, Joseph Ortiz, Professor of Geology at ÌÇÐÄVlogÆƽâ°æ, is an expert at crunching earth data.

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Waste to Value

Waste to Value

Open water placement of dredged material in Lake Erie will be banned in the State of Ohio after July 1, 2020. However, eight federal navigation harbors built along Ohio’s Lake Erie coast still need to remove more than 1.5 million cubic yards of sediment.

What to do with this large amount of material removed from the ports in Ohio poses a major challenge. Securing the dredged material in a confined disposal facility (CDF) is costly. An alternative approach is to reuse the dredged material as a construction and landscaping material.

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