| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 67.17 |
| Liaison | Lori Collins-Hall |
| Submission Date | Feb. 17, 2015 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Sterling College (VT)
AC-9: Academic Research
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
12.00 / 12.00 |
Farley
Brown Faculty in Ecology Ecology |
Number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff engaged in sustainability research:
Total number of the institution’s faculty and/or staff engaged in research:
Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that include at least one faculty or staff member that conducts sustainability research:
The total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that conduct research:
A copy of the sustainability research inventory that includes the names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
Names and department affiliations of faculty and staff engaged in sustainability research:
Laura Spence--Ecology
Farley Brown--Ecology
Charlotte Rosendahl--Sustainable Agriculture
Louise Calderwood--Sustainable Agriculture
A brief description of the methodology the institution followed to complete the research inventory:
Information was collected from Farley Brown and Laura Spence in regards to research. All of the faculty that participate in research gear their research toward sustainability topics, particularly in the fields listed above.
A brief description of notable accomplishments during the previous three years by faculty and/or staff engaged in sustainability research:
Research by Farley Brown includes the following:
2008 - National Science Foundation grant to conduct a Bioassessment of the Wild Branch River. This included an assessment of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in three specific locations along the Wild Branch, a river that has been unstable for many years. Data was merged with a larger Streams Project in the Lake Champlain Watershed (along with other schools - Johnson State College, St. Michael's College, UVM, Middlebury College, and Norwich University). I hired 3 students to assist me in the collection of organisms in the field and then identification and classification in the lab. This information was presented at the Streams Project Annual Meeting in 2009
2012/2013 - Northern Rivers Land Trust Project: Hardwick Lake - Today and Tomorrow. We collected ecological, historical, and current land use information about a human made lake in Hardwick, Vermont. I worked with 4 students to collect field data and 1 student to help write the final report. This project was presented at the Northern Rivers Land Trust Annual Meeting 2013.
2012/2014 - Sterling College Land Management and Information Project:Development of a web-based mapping curriculum to enhance student learning and understanding of the use and management of Sterling College land. Funded by the Work College Consortium. Assisted by the Lands Communication Work Program student (actually we developed that position once we got the grant).
2014 - Upper Black River Stabilization Project: funded by Vermont Community Foundation through the Craftsbury Conservation Commission (which I chaired). I hired 1 student to assist me in the field documenting presences of Japanese knotweed as well as areas of unstable stream banks along specific reaches of the Black River. The student created GIS maps of these areas. The Watershed Analysis class and Wildlife Conservation class collected data which will be used in the final write up.
The website URL where information about sustainability research is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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