Research, naturally: Cofrin grants recipients share results (and video)

Members of the UW-Green Bay campus and community are invited to attend a symposium presented by student researchers of the Cofrin Center for Biodiversity.

The 2012 Cofrin Student Symposium will be held from 1 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 6 in the 1965 Room of the University Union. Presenting their results will be nine UW-Green Bay students who were awarded grants generously donated by the Cofrin family to complete independent research at one or more Cofrin Biodiversity Center-managed natural areas. The schedule:

1:10 pm Lindsey Bender — “Effects of understory herbaceous community composition on soil microbial respiration, soil nutrient cycling, and microbial community composition.”
1:28 pm Nick Janak — “The effect of dead fine root inputs on soil microbial biomass and enzyme activity – the path to soil organic matter accumulation.”
1:46 pm Mark Wolf — “Spatial and temporal variation in frog breeding activity at the Toft Point Natural Area in Door County, Wisconsin.”


2:04 pm Jesse Weinzinger — “Mammal Survey of the Wabikon Lake Forest Dynamics Plot.”

2:22 pm Alicia Brunner — “Monitoring eastern bluebird (Sialia sialis) nest boxes at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus.”
2:40 pm Gary Wauters — “A Mammal Survey of the Brussels Hill Pit Cave.”
2:58 pm David Lawrence — “Continued Baseline Study of Fish Assemblages in the Wequiock Creek Estuary, at Point au Sable, Wisconsin, Including Quatrefoil Light Traps.”
3:16 pm Ashley Fehrenbach — “Diversity of the herbaceous layer with respect to light availability and topography at the Wabikon Lake Forest Dynamics Plot in northern Wisconsin.”
3:34 pm Kari Hagenow — “Examining the Potential for Density-dependent Seedling Mortality within a Temperate Forest Plot in Northern Wisconsin.”

Fisher video from Jesse Weinzinger’s project “Mammal Survey of the Wabikon Lake Forest Dynamics Plot.”