BotanyQuinn Zacharias
2023 The Garden Club of America Summer Scholarship in Field Botany
Carbon Sequestration and Impacts on Vegetation and Soils from Enhanced Silicate Weathering
Zacharias’s research will facilitate a better understanding of the terrestrial environmental response to enhanced silicate weathering. An application of crushed basalt will be applied to a small dairy farm in northern Vermont this summer, and the impacts will be monitored over subsequent years. Rapid field scale trials will evaluate where sequestered carbon becomes stored, possible fertilization effects to vegetation, and elemental tracing. Vegetation will be monitored for species composition, root growth, hay yield, and leaf nutrient/elemental quality within the application site and several control zones.
The Garden Club of America Summer Scholarship in Field Botany
To support students' field studies and offer an opportunity to gain knowledge and experience beyond the regular course of study.
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