What’s the Story of Soil in My City?

This blog post was written by Elizabeth Wilkes as part of the Spring 2018 UGA Urban Ecology class. Why Urban Soil Matters Soil is the basis for human life, supporting the life of plants which form the foundation of ecosystems. This fact can be easy to forget in the context of a city dominated by concrete and asphalt. Beneath roads, buildings, parking lots, and other impermeable surfaces in urban areas, dirt still exists, but most…

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Can Green Infrastructure Act As an Alternative Method to Improve Watershed Health?

This blog post was written by Mikala Newsom as part of the Spring 2018 UGA Urban Ecology class. As watershed health continues to decline with increasing urbanization and population growth, it is necessary to adjust infrastructure in order to mitigate water quality issues. (Tolbert & Hanson et al. 2012) Currently, gray infrastructure is mainly used when dealing with water distribution and how it is transferred from human facilities back into the environment. Gray infrastructure been…

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