Surveying
With teams of students and volunteers, Susan Dudley and Chad Harvey have been using equipment generously lent by Civil Engineering to precisely impose a grid onto the property. The grid is a 500m X 500m square, with stakes every 20m. This spatial grid will be used largely for the permanent tree plot, but can be used for other monitoring projects or experiments.
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Permanent Tree Plot
Buckthorn Removal
Rhamnus Cathartica, or Common Buckthorn, is an invasive species of tree that has taken over the front of the property. About a square kilometre of former farmland and grassland has been transformed into a monoculture of buckthorn. Buckthorn is allelopathic, meaning its roots exude chemicals which harm other plants. This makes it a formidable competitor. The team is removing the buckthorn and re-introducing native grasses, with the hope that the front of the property can be rehabilitated into a grassland.
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Undergraduate Research
En Plein Air
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