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Balance in ecosystems is both crucial and fragile. When one species experiences population flux, others change in response. Often, dramatic population change can lead to permanent alteration of ecosystems. Human activity is a major driving force in…

Vassar College lacks a comprehensive inventory of its trees or estimates of their carbon sequestration, making it difficult to assess the campus's net carbon emissions. Yet trees play acritical role in climate regulation by storing carbon in their…

This experiment was conducted as a final project for ENST-124 in the spring of 2026. Our experiment built off of a previous one conducted in the fall 2025 semester. We replicated the methods of that project to continue evaluating the effect of lawn…

This class project compares the impact of the presence of leaf litter on the invertebrate diversity in various locations on Vassar's campus.

We cored ten Amur Corktree specimens (nine on the Preserve at Vassar; one on the Arboretum) to estimate their ages. The collected data aided our investigation into the spread of this invasive species.

This proposal outlines where we can put more picnic tables, trash cans, and benches around campus to make it more accessible for students to engage outside. This includes proposals for Joss Beach and Chapel Lawn, while including multiple other…

We studied two areas of stormwater institutes: a rain garden and a bioretention area, as well as two grass lawns. Through exploring these two environmental types, we attempted to explore if the green stormwater infrastructure is achieving its goal of…

This project investigates the efficiency of Vassar's heating system from the perspective of student residents and focusing on radiator controls.

In this project, we sampled soil from across Vassar's central campus to see if there was a noticeable difference in soil health. We measured the depth of OM, total depth, nitrate levels, and leaf litter presence, among other less noticeable things.