The images you see on the banner are of places and people involved in our research.

Surveying Image: Lindsey Ruhl (MS Student, Class of 2014) surveys small changes in elevation in a flood prone field near the Winooski River, Burlington, VT. This work is funded by a grant from the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education, SARE (http://www.sare.org/)

 

Earthworm burrows made by Lumbricus rubellus (Red Worm)in soil from an experimental microcosm designed to measure greenhouse gases. This work is part of Ryan Melnichuk’s thesis work.

 

 

Ryan Melnichuk inspecting a Amynthas agrestis specimen found at the Williston rest stop on I89 S.

 

 

Swiss chard plots at Bella Farm in Monkton (http://bellapesto.com/). These plots are part of Peter Austin’s (MS student and farm manager at East Shore Winery) thesis project on vermicompost. This work is funded by SARE (http://www.sare.org/)

 

 

 

The view within an earthworm burrow on a starless night. Soils are opaque…

 

 

 

 

View of the Adriatic sea near Izmir on a field trip with personnel form the  Olive Research Station in Bornova near Izmir (http://www.zae.gov.tr/)

 

 

 

Lake Champlain seen from Barton Island while surveying for earthworms this summer. The work was funded by a grant obtained By Don Ross et al. from the Northeastern States Research Cooperative (http://nsrcforest.org/).

 

 

 

A seepage face on a lime stone rock face at Hocking Hill State park, Ohio. Iron oxides (red ooze) are precipitating on contact with air (http://www.hockinghills.com/old_mans_cave.html)

 

 

 

Justin Richardson (PhD student, Dartmouth College) and Paliza Shresta (MS Virginia Tech. and a volunteer at UVM) weighing soil from a quantitative soil pit dug for Justin’s thesis work.