Summer Environmental StudyNatalie Howe
2015 The Caroline Thorn Kissel Summer Environmental Studies Scholarship
Natalie Howe is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University, New Jersey, where she is studying how lichens change soil chemistry and biology in the New Jersey Pinelands. She is investigating whether soil lichens can help prevent establishment of Teesdalia nudicaulis, an invasive mustard plant that can weaken other plants’ associations with mycorrhizal fungi (root-associated fungi that help plants get water and nutrients.
The Caroline Thorn Kissel Summer Environmental Studies Scholarship
To promote environmental studies by students who are residents of New Jersey or nonresidents studying in New Jersey or its adjacent waters.
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