Michigan Tech Research Institute maps spread of reed in Great Lakes basin

September 3, 2010 — Joy

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Michigan Tech News, Sept. 2, 2010:

Until now, no one has done a comprehensive map showing where Phragmites australis is established and where it is spreading in the Great Lakes basins. The Michigan Tech Research Institute (MTRI), based in Ann Arbor, Mich., has taken on that job. To do the work, the institute has received a $580,000 federal grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s $475 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.

MTRI’s goal is to map the likely extent of Phragmites in each Great Lakes coastal basin—the land occupied by a lake, its shoreline, and the areas near shore that drain into the lake—by 2011.

Read more here.

GeoConnect | August 02, 2010 | Students from Michigan Tech document their field research on Phragmites, showing how they get to the field, what they do there, and why they love doing field work.
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WHYY in Philadelphia reports on battling invasive Phragmites in Delaware

May 21, 2010 — Joy

“There are still no solutions,” says Harsh Bais, PhD, University of Delaware, about reversing the invasion of Phragmites australis, however, treatments are being explored and the plant’s aggressive mechanisms are being deciphered by chemists.

whyyphila — May 21, 2010 — In nearly all of Delaware’s marshlands, plants native to Delaware are fighting a losing battle against a successful invader, the reed Phragmites.

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