Empowering Communities: Pollinator Monitoring in a "Smart" Rain Garden

• In Event: Poster Presentations

Session Submission Type: Poster Presentation

Summary

A National Science Foundation CIVIC Innovation grant was awarded to build a demonstration-scale ‘smart’ rain garden at a city park. As a part of the project, community members were trained to monitor pollinators at the site as part of the scientific data to gauge the garden's success.

Sub Unit

• Conservation and Environmental Education

Presenter

• Holly Abeels, University of Florida IFAS Extension

Non-Attending Contributors

• Mandy Baily, University of Florida

• Emily Surmont, FL Department of Environmental Protection

• Alexis Miller, City of Cape Canaveral