Environmental Science and Design Research Institute
Up On The Roof
What some call a sustainable answer to urban flaws, Anna Droz calls research. As a biological sciences doctoral student in ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø’s College of Arts and Sciences, Droz’s curiosity has developed into a passion, maybe even an obsession, to discover the best vegetative roof combinations with the optimal plants, soil, and micro-organism communities.
Teaming Up To Tackle Toxic Waters
Like a financial analyst who pores over numbers to predict the next big trend, Joseph Ortiz, Professor of Geology at ÆÞÓÑÉçÇø, is an expert at crunching earth data.
Seeking Answers In the Arctic
Waste to Value
Open water placement of dredged material in Lake Erie will be banned in the State of Ohio after July 1, 2020. However, eight federal navigation harbors built along Ohio’s Lake Erie coast still need to remove more than 1.5 million cubic yards of sediment.
What to do with this large amount of material removed from the ports in Ohio poses a major challenge. Securing the dredged material in a confined disposal facility (CDF) is costly. An alternative approach is to reuse the dredged material as a construction and landscaping material.
Biologist Partners With Toledo Colleague To Make Water Safer
Turning Food Waste Into a Window of Opportunity
Kent State Architect Students Use Fabric, Rope and Ice to Construct International Recognition
Operation: Restoration
