Student Spotlight 
ENST graduate student Jennifer Brundage examines the effectiveness of grazing by goats to control common reed, an invasive wetland grass known as Phragmites australis. In many regions of North America, land managers are using herbicides to control the invasive grass Phragmites australis. While herbicide control is often effective, it is labor, cost, and energy-intensive and often results in impacts to non-target native plants. Now, Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Science major Jennifer Brundage is studying how to control this grass in a sustainable way.
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Faculty Spotlight
Dr. Andrew Baldwin, an expert on wetland ecology and engineering, is undergraduate program director of the Department of Environmental Science and Technology. He joined the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources in 1996 and enjoys working with students outdoors, even in freezing rain or searing heat. "One time, it was raining and 35 degrees out, and I saw one kid had on only shorts and a T-shirt. After they do that once or twice, they seem to be more prepared," remembers Dr. Baldwin.
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News
ENST Student Gives Away Hundreds of Seedlings. David Ruppert has distributed hundreds of seedlings grown from acorns he collects as a way of encouraging the spread of local tree genetics.
Soil Judging - Perfected at the University of Maryland. Hapludult, redoximorphic feature, lithologic discontinuity – while these terms for soil sound foreign to most, a talented team of University of Maryland students know them well.
Everyone is getting soil savvy. ENST Professors help to develop a permanent soils exhibit in the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History.
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