Integrated Pest Management is a continually improving initiative that is beneficial to both conservation of beneficial insects and ecological health in urban Cincinnati. However, landscape industry employees and environmental policy-makers require education on the four main strategies of IPM in order to carry out this initiative. This project explains the emerging educational strategies that landscape industry employees and environmental policy-makers need in order to fulfill this initiative.
This research investigates if there is a meaningful correlation between those living in low-income areas and the state of the soil’s health. Specifically, the neighborhoods of Lower Price Hill, Winton Hills, and Walnut Hills in Cincinnati, Ohio, are examined regarding socioeconomic class related to the quality of life for those living in these neighborhoods to determine if any quantifiable disparities in the aforementioned neighborhoods are perpetuated by or a direct result of poor soil health.
“Squinting at the Details” looks at an artwork by Guercino titled “Mars with Cupid: and attempts to identify possible references and symbolism in the smaller details found in the work.
This project explores certain methods for creating a living fashion to design a piece that communicates a message about environmental stewardship. The intention of the design is to promote conversation among viewers, inciting a passion for change.
This research shows the environmental benefits of implementing floating garden designs in ponds and lakes as floating treatment wetlands (FTWs). Research conducted by Virginia Tech, Rutgers, Floating Island International, and the International Institute for Sustainable Development indicates successful remediation and removal of nutrient runoff from agricultural production, wastewater treatment, and human and animal waste. Plants with different rooting depths and surface areas can phytoaccumulate phosphorus and nitrogen compounds. Like wetlands, FTWs create an environment for microbial life around the rhizosphere of plants and the island substrate, generating colonies of bacteria called biofilm that digest nutrients from water or sediment. Natural wetland habitats, one of humanity's most efficient biofilters, have been destroyed around the United States to make room for farmland and cities. This research has been aggregated to fuel an FTW design on a small farm in Waynesville, Ohio, and other lakes and ponds for people that this research may inspire.
This project consists of a living fashion design that conveys a message about environmental stewardship. The goal is to inspire viewers and promote conversation about stewardship of the earth.
Joan Miró, a Catalan artist, was religiously dedicated to the work of poets. In 1925, Miró felt it necessary to begin incorporating poetry into his paintings, shifting the essence of his work towards poetic impression. While his early works incorporated more obvious references to poetics, his large-scale murals of Blue I, II, and III from 1961 embody many of his earliest poetic influences in a less-obvious form. I will trace how poetics from the 20th century manifested in the works of Joan Miró to form the triptych of Blue I, Blue II, and Blue III.
Data from qualitative study "Employing Strategies to Address Implicit Racial Bias in the Home Visit Setting" Includes: written reflections by FM residents, resident focus group data, commitments-to-change, and 3-month follow up survey data
In a world where technology continues to vastly grow and improve, IoT devices have increasingly become more and more a part of people’s everyday lives. Although that is the case there is a need to understand how to better use these devices for threat detection. This paper presents early work to understand gaps in this regard using a review of previously used techniques to identify known threats to households. Through the use of smart home device clusters we seek to effectively reduce the amount of false alarms and create a more reliable resource for home residents.
