• Wetlands Restoration of Prior Converted Cropland

 
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• Overview: Methodology to restore, evaluate, and predict restoration success on prior converted wetlands is being evaluated in field scale studies.

 
• Goal: Quantify relationships between hydrology, microtopography, soil and water chemistry, and water quality in restored wetlands and evaluate the potential for managing hydrology, microtopography, and soil and water chemistry to influence the structure, composition and development of plant communities.

 
• Wetland losses resulting from conversion to agriculture and other uses has generated public and political interest in wetland creation and restoration. Currently, there exist few site-specific, prescriptive, quantitative criteria for restoring wetland hydrology and water quality functions. Field and simulation results will be combined to develop objective design and management criteria for restoring wetland hydrology and water quality functions on prior converted lands. Study sites are located in Beaufort and Craven counties.

 
• Cooperators: M.J. Vepraskas (Soil Science), T.H. Shear (Forestry), G.M. Chescheir (Bio. & Ag. Eng.).

 
• Graduate Students: Kevin Tweedy, BAE (completed MS 98); Dwight McKinney, Forestry (completed MS 1997); Brian Smith, Soil Science (completed MS 1998); Elizabeth Scherrer, Forestry (completed MS 2000)

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