Ecological Engineering Links

Oasis Project

The EES group attempted to take on a project in conjunction with the OSU organization OASIS (Ohio Agricultural Sustainable somethingorother). The project was to take an abandoned field which now functions as a detention basin and create a sustainable student farm. The stream going through the property was a channelized nightmare, and our EES group thought we just might have what it takes to restore it. We also had ideas for constructing a wetland for agricultural runoff treatment.

Our group, with help from Dr. Andy Ward's FABE 373 class, surveyed the site and performed a reconnaissance on some upstream reference reaches of the stream. We then put some restoration ideas together based on what we saw. Unfortunately, the OASIS group lost the funding that it thought it had secured for the project. We stopped pursuing the project after this point. Although we were disappointed at this turn of events, all of us who worked on the project value the experience we gained while working together. After all, that's what it's all about.

Check out the fruits of our efforts:

Below: Terry Stewart, first alum of the OSU ecological engineering program, surveys a stream transect at the OASIS farm site.

Below: A topographic map of the site created from the survey

Below: A sketch of our restoration idea, rotated 90 deg. clockwise from map above.