Students from the Biology Core Curriculum have been collecting data on the plant composition of the marsh every fall and helping to monitor any changes that result from management activities, such as the burn that occurred in the spring of 2000.

	Students searching for invertebrates during a fall field trip to University Bay and the Class of 1918 Marsh

Students laying a transect through the marsh.  They then placed a 0.5 square meter sampling square every 5 meters and identified all the plants within the square.		Students identifying plants within a sampling plot.  The poles give them something to push on when they get stuck in the mud!