Student Spotlight  
ENST graduate student Jennifer Brundage examines the effectiveness of grazing by goats to control common reed, an invasive wetland grass known as Phragmites australis. In many regions of North America, land managers are using herbicides to control the invasive grass Phragmites australis. While herbicide control is often effective, it is labor, cost, and energy-intensive and often results in impacts to non-target native plants. Now, Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Science major Jennifer Brundage is studying how to control this grass in a sustainable way–through grazing by goats.
| Faculty Spotlight
 ENST professor Patrick Kangas' project aims to produce bio-fuel while cleaning up bay. Weird as it seems, the work of a coral reef is being replicated on the rocky banks of the Susquehanna River near Holtwood. Here at the Muddy Run Pumped Storage power plant, two scientists are convinced they have found a proven way to, at last, clean up the Chesapeake Bay and, at the same time, provide a renewable alternative fuel to oil. The goals may be huge but the technology for this "ecological engineering" is fairly basic. Algae. | News Soil Judging - Perfected at the University of Maryland.
Hapludult, redoximorphic feature, lithologic discontinuity – while
these terms for soil sound foreign to most, a talented team of
University of Maryland students know them well.ENST Collaborations Abroad. The ENST faculty members have established numerous strong international partnerships in Belize, Brazil, Germany, Russia, New Zealand, Italy, Africa, and more.
Awards and Honors in 2008. Dr. Robert Hill receives prestigious Landmark Award; Dr. David Ross named ASABE Fellow; Three Prizes at Gemstone Citation Ceremony, and more. Everyone is getting soil savvy. ENST Professors help to develop a permanent soils exhibit in the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History. |
