Trashy! A multi-season study of anthropogenic and organic litter in riparian areas along the Great Miami River.

Trashy! A multi-season study of anthropogenic and organic litter in riparian areas along the Great Miami River.

Presenter(s)

Allyson A. Allen, Emily Marie Berkshire, Charles M. Brockman, Herbert K. Burroughs, Pepper Julia Cantwell, Olivia P. Fenner, Grace A. Janszen, Catherine G. Landry, Morgan E. Mieland, Miles Ellison Muratore, Emerson R. Phares, Megan Ann Poole, Kendall E. Ridgley, Michaela M. Rogers, Rianna Soltis, Adelaide Lorraine Starks, Amanda N. Thieneman, Valerie Nicole Thurston, Cheryl Vargas, Juliana Marie Vollmer

Comments

Presentation: 1:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m., Kennedy Union Ballroom

This project reflects research conducted as part of a course project designed to give students experience in the research process.

Course: BIO 459L

Description

Rivers act as conduits of both anthropogenic and organic litter that eventually reach oceans. Few studies have investigated how anthropogenic litter and organic litter vary along gradients from the river’s edge into riparian ecosystems, if anthropogenic and organic litter are spatially coupled with one another, and how anthropogenic litter composition varies across riparian areas. The ecosystem ecology lab (BIO 459L) has been studying riparian litter for the last couple of years along the Great Miami River. We set up transects to look at anthropogenic and organic litter from the river’s edge, and every two meters inland up to 10m. We found evidence that anthropogenic litter and organic litter are spatially coupled, and that the composition of anthropogenic litter changes along a gradient from the river’s edge to inside riparian areas. This type of information can help land managers understand how to manage litter in riparian areas of the Miami Valley.

Publication Date

4-20-2022

Project Designation

Course Project

Primary Advisor

Chelse M. Prather, Ryan William Reihart

Primary Advisor's Department

Biology

Keywords

Stander Symposium project, College of Arts and Sciences

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Life Below Water; Life on Land

Trashy! A multi-season study of anthropogenic and organic litter in riparian areas along the Great Miami River.

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