BotanyIan Medeiros
2015 The Joan K. Hunt and Rachel M. Hunt Summer Scholarship in Field Botany
Ian D. Medeiros is a junior at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, majoring in Human Ecology with a concentration in Botany. This summer he will survey the plants and lichens found on outcrops of serpentine bedrock in western Massachusetts. Serpentine is a unique rock that often produces soils which are chemically stressful for plants. It has been studied extensively in California and moderately in Maine and Vermont however, there are no published biological studies of serpentine outcrops in Massachusetts. This research project will serve as his undergraduate senior thesis.
The Joan K. Hunt and Rachel M. Hunt Summer Scholarship in Field Botany
To promote the importance of botany to horticulture by encouraging young students to study field botany in the U.S., and to offer an opportunity to gain knowledge and experience in the field beyond the regular course of study.
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