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Assunpink Greenway
We have compiled some of the data from previous researchand we have the restoration plan in hand for the Assunpink. To continue this project in 2008, we hope to talk to some of the decision-makers in Trenton about progress and hurdles left in the future for the Assunpink Greenway. We also plan to investigate Baltimore as an example of how ecological restoration has benefited the economy and "livability" of the city. Please see our previous research.
Curt Elderkin is an Assistant Professor of Biology. His research interests include population and conservation genetics of freshwater mussels, evolutionary ecology of freshwater invertibrates, quantitative genetics of environmental stressors, and population biology, ecology, and physiology of invasive species. He earned his Ph.D. in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology in 2001 at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
Alex Rass is currently an aspiring junior Biology major at The College of New Jersey. Though biology is his major, he is interested in many other subjects, including chemistry, psychology, mathematics, and computer science, the latter of which he plans to minor in during his tenure at TCNJ. This is his second summer participating in the Lancy project, continuing his work on the Assunpink Creek of Trenton. He is not positive about what the future holds for him, but plans to attend either medical school or graduate school, where he would continue some form of research.
