
On February 19, members of the BAC Biology Department's Deer Study project presented at the Society for Ecological Restoration International Mid-Atlantic Chapter 2010 Conference.
The conference took at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and is the fourth conference that the Deer Study has presented at in the past three years. In 2008 they participated in the Conference of the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of Ecological Societies of America’s Conference held at Wilkes University. In 2009 they presented at the conference for the Mid-Atlantic Chapters of the Ecological Society of America and the Society for Ecological Restoration held at The College of New Jersey and the 7th Annual Pennsylvania Land Conversation Conference and Confluence: Working Together to Protect our Land, Water & Communities, at Penn State College.
Presenting at the most recent conference were BAC faculty members, Dr. Eugene Potapov, Dr. Allen Bedford, Dr. Fredrik Bryntesson and Dr. Sherri Cooper; BAC students, Bracken Brown, Laird Klippenstein and Jonathan Nash; BAC alumni, Dallas Hendricks and Alex Rohtla; and representatives from the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust (www.pennypacktrust.org), Brad Nyholm and David Robertson, who are partners in BAC's Deer Study.
At the Ecological Restoration International Conference, the Deer Study team presented a poster entitled "When white-tailed deer come to restoration plots: A case study at the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust." | View Poster
The poster was co-authored and co-presented by BAC faculty members and two BAC students, Bracken Brown and Laird Klippenstein. Also attending the conference were BAC ecology students Alexx Atkins, Joseph Grubb, and Mark Apedo.