Student Collaboration
Past Projects
Along with the Green Student Initiative Grants our office partners with faulty and
students on projects that help boost our sustainability initiatives from our department.
Environmental Sciences 2025 Capstone Projects
- Tulsa Botanic Garden Trail
- Collaboration with Tulsa Botanic Garden on the Cross Timber Trail
- Mapping
- Identifying and removing invasive species
- Ecosystem revitalization/restoration
- Provided fire plan and prescribed burn schedule
- Oklahoma Kudzu Identification and Location
- Last kudzu map was 2015
- Comparison mapping
- Publication of a kudzu fact sheet
- Last kudzu map was 2015
- Sustainable Dairy
- Sustainable dairy wanted to expand their sustainable procedures on the farm
- Provided new plans for sand bedding being converted to manure based bedding
- River Sports OKC Recycling
- Preparing a recycling plan for the 2028 Olympics
- OSU Campus E-Waste Recycling
- Reforms
- Battery recycling information
- Stillwater E-waste day
- Make information from OSU public
- Reforms
- Student Farm Composting
- Continuation of previous year's work of getting compost from Campus Dining
- Determined different types of composting and what examples could be displayed and used at the student farm
- Ag Hall Recycling Audit
- Audit of number of bins and what is being thrown away vs recycled
- Survey of what kinds of bins are wanted in Ag Hall and where
- Worked with Facilities Management to clarify the bin placement process
- Virtual Fencing/Water Quality Research for Grazing Lands
- Continuation of 2024 group study of the water quality of pasture drinking areas
- This study was used to increase the data set and provide fencing recommendations
- Aquifer Testing
- Partnership with the Oklahoma Water Resources Board
- Testing and sampling around the state
- Collaboration with Tulsa Botanic Garden on the Cross Timber Trail
CEAT Project Collaborations
- 2025 - Partnership with Landscape Services/Office of Sustainability to implement a solar power charging trailer for use on campus for battery operated landscape equipment
Environmental Sciences Earlier Capstone Projects
- Recycle Bin Audit, Core of Campus
- OSU Sustainability Walking Tour: ArcGIS Stories
- Collaborate with Campus Dining for compostable food waste
- Storm Water Drainage Report