Recent activities

Recontouring completed in late May

Four vegetative plantings have been conducted by the Wetlands Club to date (Planted species and numbers attached)

Two presentations of SEEP were made

Natural Resources Forum: Gainesville

International Society of Limnology: Dublin, Ireland

Weir

Discussion with PPD engineer

Some slumping of riprap around weir

Temporary, sandbag weir will be constructed

Present activities

Develop long-term research goals

Hydrology

Vegetation

Soils

Fauna

Avifauna

Fish

Herpetofauna

Water quality

Photographic record

Research goal implementation

Methodology

Hydrology (three stage recorders and one weather station)

Vegetative plots (stratified random selection based on community and soil type)

Soils (initial baseline survey at internodes of 10m grid. Later, subsampling of grid will be

conducted selected by vegetation and sediment type

Wildlife utilization

Avifauna: point surveys

Fish: nondestructive trapping

Herpetofauna: ?

Water quality (sampling to identify spatial, temporal and event concentrations)

Photographic record (photo stations)

Management of SEEP research, education and succession

SEEP sub-committee (Faculty/Student mix)

Prioritize SEEP objectives

Protocol for dealing with exotics or undesirable? Species

Data collection and organization

Plan Community planting and dedication of SEEP

Late winter/early spring to coincide with environmental day