Interns Tannis, Noah, and Katy, along with Drs. Williams, Conroy-Ben, and Muenich visited the Gilbert Riparian Preserve last week to sample from their groundwater recharge ponds. It was also a great lesson in soils and sampling techniques!
The Preserve was established as a way to help recharge the groundwater with wastewater, while creating educational and recreational opportunities to the community. Student interns will be evaluating the change in microbial communities across a transect of one of the ponds.
This work is supported by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Capacity Building Projects for Non-Land Grant Colleges of Agriculture project 1017146, grant number 2018-70001-28751.