Four students presented three research projects at the annual Water Resources Research Institute meeting in Raleigh, N.C.
Brittany White’s presentation received second place in the student presentation competition, competing against mostly graduate students from regional research-1 universities. Their research advisor was Brant Touchette from the Department of Environmental Studies. The students and their presentations are as follows:
Morgan Booker (Biology major) “Responses of herbaceous wetland plants often used in bioretension basins to drought and flooding.”
Caitlin Byrne, and John Moody (Environmental and Ecological Science majors) “Clonal integration in a wetland plant: The importance of acropetal water transfer between mother and daughter ramets.”
Brittany White (Biology major) “Physiological responses in the coastal marsh plant, Spartina patens, following sudden increases in soil salinities.”