Graduate Student Improves Large-Scale Marsh Restoration

Featured Faculty: Kara L. Nelson

Maddie Foster-Martinez, CEE Environmental Engineering PhD candidate, uses biosolids—treated sewage sludge from water treatment plants—as tidal wetland restoration material.  She uses a marsh organ, an instrument she has built, to measure the effectiveness of using this material for restoration.

After receiving an NSF fellowship for her research, Foster-Martinez joined CEE's Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory. For her doctoral research, she is studying the interplay of forces that build, or destroy, marshes. Foster-Martinez's faculty advisor is Professor Kara Nelson.

See Building an organ in the marsh (Berkeley Engineering, 12/16/15)

Published