EMLab Honored with ASLA Professional Research Award for “Tides of Change: Adaptive Management for Coastal Salt Marshes”

The American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) has recognized the McHarg Center's Environmental Modeling Lab (EMLab) with an Honor Award in the Professional Research Category for their project Tides of Change: Adaptive Management for Coastal Salt Marshes. The research team, led by EMLab Co-Directors Sean Burkholder and Keith VanDerSys, and in partnership with the Wetland Institute, is working with federal and state agencies to model and monitor six wetland restoration sites totaling 500 acres along coastal New Jersey. This work aims to create high-resolution models to determine sediment placement and track salt marsh elevation and vegetation composition over time. 

The multi-year, transdisciplinary project has been supported by EMLab’s student research assistants Mariya Lupandina, Clarasophia Gust, Zicheng Zhao, Shuyi Hao, and Aaron O’Neil, and Research Associate Lucy Salwen. 

Read EMLAb’s recently published Q&A in the McHarg Center’s Perspectives series, here.