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Michigan Tech is taking part in a multi-university to study how coastal land loss restoration practices impact ecosystems in coastal marshes.
Louisiana State University is leading the research with includes Tech and five other universities.
The project just received a $2.1 million competitive grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s RESTORE science program.
Some of those funds come from proceeds assessed during the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, which are being used to fund environmental research.
Michigan Tech’s principal researcher is Jill Olin, a research scientist with the University’s Great Lakes Research Center.
The overall goal of the research is to understand how river diversions and the salt-water concentration changes that result affect plants, animals and their interactions with each other in natural and man-made coastal marshes.
In addition to LSU and Michigan Tech, collaborating universities are Rutgers, University of Florida, University of Tennessee-Knoxville and Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium.
For the full story, see http://www.mtu.edu/news/stories/2017/july/michigan-tech-joins-louisiana-state-others-coastal-marshes-research.html
