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Point au Sauble Vegetation Survey
Cofrin Grant recipient Brad Herrick counts plants within a sampling quadrat.
UW Green Bay graduate student Brad Herrick received a
Cofrin Arboretum Research Grant last
summer to develop a permanent vegetation survey program at Point
au Sauble, a prominent peninsula located on the east shore of Lower
Green Bay. This natural area preserves one of the few unmodified estuarine
wetlands in the entire Lake Michigan ecosystem. Herrick conducted a baseline
survey of the vegetation at Point au Sauble. The purpose of this research
was to construct permanent sampling plots to be used in a long-term monitoring
program. The data collected will be used to construct Geographical Information
Systems (GIS) maps and to monitor changes in the vegetation composition
of this natural area.
On September 29th from 1 to 3 Brad along with six other students who also worked on Cofrin Arboretum Grants this year will present their findings at the Cofrin Student Research Symposium in the Phoenix Rooms at the UWGB Union . Thanks to a generous endowment from the family of Dr. David Cofrin and the late John Cofrin, annual awards are available for student research on the Cofrin Arboretum and UW-Green Bay natural areas. Students can apply online for this year's competition.
Biodiversity Topics: Introduction . Plants . Animals . Mammals . Birds . Reptiles & Amphibians . Arthropods . Spiders . Insects
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for Biodiversity and the University of Wisconsin Green Bay,
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Last
updated on
March 26, 2008