Environmental Science and Design Research Institute
Kayakers to Paddle From Kent to Cleveland for 5th Annual Crooked River Commute
Two days and 50 miles. That is how long it will take kayakers to paddle the Cuyahoga River from Â鶹¹û¶³ to Kent State’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative for the 5th annual Crooked River Commute. The event is intended to promote the river as a shared asset for education, recreation,…
Road Construction Leads to Wetlands Research On Campus
For anyone who has traveled to Kent State 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.
Up On The Roof
What some call a sustainable answer to urban flaws, Anna Droz calls research. As a biological sciences doctoral student in Â鶹¹û¶³â€™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.
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 Â鶹¹û¶³, is an expert at crunching earth data.
Seeking Answers In the Arctic
Arctic permafrost typically functions as a vast freezer that preserves decaying plant matter for thousands of years, but rapidly warming climate is thawing permafrost and accelerating decomposition. Increased plant growth is needed to capture carbon that is released from decomposing organic matter, …
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.
Biologist Partners With Toledo Colleague To Make Water Safer
The toxic algae bloom crisis in Toledo in 2014 put the issue of water treatment front and center, and problems like those in Flint, Michigan, and Sebring, Ohio have only added more weight to the discussion. Xiaozhen Mou, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, is working with colleagues …
Turning Food Waste Into a Window of Opportunity
Kent State biology student rescues excess food for educational feast Imagine planning a dinner party for 500 of your closest friends and not knowing what you will serve until almost the last minute. It might sound stressful, but for Erin Shattuck it is a privilege. Ms. Shattuck is passionate a…
Kent State Architect Students Use Fabric, Rope and Ice to Construct International Recognition
The details are stunning. The size - mammoth. The temperature - frigid. They are some of the most awe-inspiring creations made out of mother nature’s most exquisite winter ingredients: snow and ice. Equally impressive are the artists, architects and engineers who take that snow and ice and design a…