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.
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Faculty Spotlight
Dr. David Tilley’s “Ecosystem Engineering Design Lab” receives funding for promising Green Wall experiment. When studying Green Wall efficiency, look no further than Environmental Science & Technology’s “Ecosystem Engineering Design Lab,” headed by Associate Professor Dr. David Tilley. Tilley’s research has catapulted the lab into one of the top centers in America to study vegetation-draped buildings’ effects on environmental sustainability. Now, ENST has received a joint $50,000 award with British Columbia Institute of Technology’s Centre for Architectural Ecology to perform cutting-edge Green Wall research in North America.
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News
ENST Student Gives Away Hundreds of Seedlings. David Ruppert has distributed hundreds of seedlings grown from acorns he collects as a way of encouraging the spread of local tree genetics.
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.
Everyone is getting soil savvy. ENST Professors help to develop a permanent soils exhibit in the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History.
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