{"id":1391,"date":"2021-09-24T16:08:29","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T16:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/ecology-sustainability\/sausi\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T09:25:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T14:25:18","slug":"sausi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/ecology-sustainability\/projects\/sausi\/","title":{"rendered":"SAUSI"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"content-block content-block--has-menu wp-block-butler-content-block\">\n\t<div class=\"content-block-container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"content-block-layout\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content-block-menu-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<nav class=\"content-block-menu-nav\" aria-label=\"Site menu\" id=\"page-nav\"><div class=\"content-block-menu-wrapper\"><header class=\"content-block-menu-header\"><span class=\"content-block-menu-header-label\">CUES Research Menu<\/span><button type=\"button\" class=\"content-block-menu-mobile-toggle\" title=\"Toggle menu\" aria-label=\"Toggle menu\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><\/button><\/header><ul class=\"content-block-menu-list\"><li class=\"content-block-menu-list-item content-block-menu-item-initial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/ecology-sustainability\/indy-wildlife-watch\/\" class=\"content-block-menu-list-link\">Indy Wildlife Watch<\/a><\/li><li class=\"content-block-menu-list-item content-block-menu-item-initial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/ecology-sustainability\/window-strike\/\" class=\"content-block-menu-list-link\">Bird Window Strike<\/a><\/li><li class=\"content-block-menu-list-item content-block-menu-item-initial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/ecology-sustainability\/sausi\/\" class=\"content-block-menu-list-link\">SAUSI: Sustainable Agriculture in Urban Systems of Indy<\/a><\/li><li class=\"content-block-menu-list-item content-block-menu-item-initial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/ecology-sustainability\/diversity\/\" class=\"content-block-menu-list-link\">Urban Plant Diversity &amp; Invasive Species Monitoring<\/a><\/li><li class=\"content-block-menu-list-item content-block-menu-item-initial\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/ecology-sustainability\/past-projects\/\" class=\"content-block-menu-list-link\">Past Projects<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/nav>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"content-block-content-container is-layout-constrained\">\n\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SAUSI: Sustainable Agriculture in Urban Systems of Indy<\/h1><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sustainable and local urban agriculture is often touted as being able to restore ecosystem function, including soil health, water quality, and biodiversity. This may be especially important in cases where urban agriculture has replaced abandoned or heavily managed land uses such as conventional agriculture and manicured lawns. Yet, little is known about the extent to which urban agriculture does, in fact, provide these ecosystem benefits and how long it takes for these benefits to be realized.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This project is quantifying carbon and nutrient cycling and microbial community structure and function at four urban farms in Indianapolis to explore how ecosystem function changes through time and how urban agriculture soil health compares to both prior land use and natural ecosystem types. Eventually, we hope to tie farm productivity and profitability to ecosystem services.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Get Involved<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Butler Students.<\/strong> We offer for-credit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.butler.edu\/academic-services\/ecology-sustainability\/get-involved\/student-opportunities\/\" title=\"CUE student opportunities page\">internships<\/a> during the fall and spring semesters for third and fourth year biology, chemistry, and environmental studies majors.<\/p><div class=\"butler-accordion-container wp-block-butler-accordion-container\" data-allow-multiple=\"false\" style=\"--butler-accordion-title-bg-hover: ;\">\n\n<div class=\"butler-accordion-item wp-block-butler-accordion-item\">\n\t<div class=\"butler-accordion-header\">\n\t\t<h2 class=\"butler-accordion-title wp-block-butler-accordion-item\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"butler-accordion-toggle\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\tFaculty Leadership\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"butler-accordion-item-content\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Professor Sean Berthrong,\u00a0<\/strong>Department of Biological Sciences<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Professor Julia Angstmann,\u00a0<\/strong>Center for Urban Ecology and Sustainability<\/p>\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"butler-accordion-item wp-block-butler-accordion-item\">\n\t<div class=\"butler-accordion-header\">\n\t\t<h2 class=\"butler-accordion-title wp-block-butler-accordion-item\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"butler-accordion-toggle\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\tStudent Interns\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"butler-accordion-item-content\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Spencer Lybrook<\/strong>, Biology &#8217;21<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Past<\/h3><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Becca Lewis<\/strong>,\u00a0Chemistry and Biology &#8217;18<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Nick Bantz,<\/strong>\u00a0Biology &#8217;20<\/p>\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"butler-accordion-item wp-block-butler-accordion-item\">\n\t<div class=\"butler-accordion-header\">\n\t\t<h2 class=\"butler-accordion-title wp-block-butler-accordion-item\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"butler-accordion-toggle\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\tCourse Connections\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"butler-accordion-item-content\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A portion of the data for SAUSI will use data collected in three Butler courses as part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) project entitled\u00a0<em>Cultivating Scientific Literacy and Action through Place: Using a Campus Farm as an\u00a0Interdisciplinary Learning Hub<\/em>:<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BI230 \u2013 Fundamentals: Ecology &amp; Evolutionary Biology \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Instructors:\u00a0<\/em>Professors Travis Ryan, Sean Berthrong, &amp; Andrew Stoehr<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Module Title<\/em>: Soil Respiration, Arthropod Biodiversity, and the Analysis of Variance<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BI408 \u2013 Topics in Biology, Ecosystem Ecology \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Instructor:\u00a0<\/em>Professor Sean Berthrong<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Module title:<\/em>\u00a0Bringing Microbes and Carbon Cycling Down to Earth<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CH465 \u2013 Environmental Chemistry \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Instructor:<\/em>\u00a0Professor Elizabeth Davis<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Module Title:\u00a0<\/em>Urban Agriculture and Environmental Health: Characterizing Risks of Soil Contamination<\/p>\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"butler-accordion-item wp-block-butler-accordion-item\">\n\t<div class=\"butler-accordion-header\">\n\t\t<h2 class=\"butler-accordion-title wp-block-butler-accordion-item\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"butler-accordion-toggle\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\tPublications &amp; Reports\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"butler-accordion-item-content\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moskal, B.T. 2016.\u00a0<a aria-label=\"To make this website accessible to screen reader, Press combination of alt and 1 keys. To stop getting this message, press the combination of alt and 2 keys\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.butler.edu\/www\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/08093128\/moskal-indy-soil-health.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Indy Soil Health 2016 Moskal Thesis\">Soil Health within Indianapolis Urban Gardens<\/a>.\u00a0Honors Thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, Butler University.<\/p>\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"butler-accordion-item wp-block-butler-accordion-item\">\n\t<div class=\"butler-accordion-header\">\n\t\t<h2 class=\"butler-accordion-title wp-block-butler-accordion-item\">\n\t\t\t<button class=\"butler-accordion-toggle\" aria-expanded=\"false\">\n\t\t\t\tPresentations\t\t\t\t<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Open<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/h2>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"butler-accordion-item-content\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Moskal, B., Berthrong, S., Angstmann, J. 2016. 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