Summer Environmental StudyNicholas Henshue
2015 The Caroline Thorn Kissel Summer Environmental Studies Scholarship
Nicholas Henshue is a third-year doctoral candidate at Rutgers University, New Jersey. His field is Ecology and Evolution and he will be studying how different earthworm species can possibly be used to clean up polluted industrial sites. He theorizes that five of the most common types of worms to the northern United States have the ability to change soil composition enough for plants to grow. Preliminary research suggests that while the pollution will still be in the soil, it could become modified chemically to pose less harm to the animals and plants in the ecosystem after being consumed by either the earthworms or the literally thousands of microorganisms they bring along with them.
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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