Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

Raise the Blade: Raise the Blade Metadata

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Metadata Provider

  • Forest Ecosystem Monitoring Cooperative

    • Address:
      705 Spear Street
      South Burlington, Vermont 05403
      United States of America

      Phone: (802) 391-4135
      Email: femc@uvm.edu
      Website: www.uvm.edu/femc

Abstract

    The Lake Champlain Sea Grant (LCSG) develops and shares science-based knowledge to benefit the environment and economies of the Lake Champlain basin. In 2017, Lake Champlain Sea Grant partnered with 10 Burlington-area businesses and organizations to establish "Raise the Blade" research demonstration sites. The research assessed if differences in soil and grass health exist between lawns cut to 2 inches (what most people in the Lake Champlain basin do) and lawns cut to 3 inches with clippings allowed to decompose (recommended best practices). Initially, an undergraduate fellow, supported by the Simon Family Foundation, established the paired study plots, and began managing them according to standard and recommended practices. After that summer, Lake Champlain Sea Grant hired other undergraduate student interns to manage the study plots and to monitor soil and lawn health over time. LCSG had anticipated running the study until 2027, as it was hypothesized that any changes in soil organic matter and compaction may take many years to occur. However, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 resulted in inability to maintain the study sites and the project became inactive.

People

  • Julianna White: Content Provider

  • Kristine Stepenuck: Principal Investigator

Organizations

  • Lake Champlain Sea Grant : lead

Geographic Coverage

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    Data Table

    • Title: Raise the Blade Metadata
    • Start Date: 2017-06-29
    • Description: Raise the Blade methods, sampling equipment, and description of field names.

    • Purpose:

    • Condensed Title: Z1727_3794_X1SCT0

    • Object Name: VMC.1727.3794

    • Data Type: mySQL
    • Citation: Meyers, L., R. Malone, I. Walls, J. Szymanski and K. Stepenuck. 2019. Raise the Blade Metadata. Lake Champlain Sea Grant. FEMC. Available online at: https://www.uvm.edu/femc/data/archive/project/raise-the-blade-/dataset/raise-blade-metadata

    • Online Distribution: https://vmc.w3.uvm.edu/vmcdevel/data/archive/project/raise-the-blade-/dataset/raise-blade-metadata

    Attribute List

      Attribute Name: Additional_Information
      • Label: Additional_Information
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: Methods
      • Label: Methods
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal
      Attribute Name: See_file:_Methods_2019_docx
      • Label: See_file:_Methods_2019_docx
      • Storage Type: text
      • Measurment Type: nominal

    Methods

    • No methods recorded for this dataset

    Sampling Equipment

    • No sampling equipment recorded for this dataset

    Site Characteristics

    • No site characteristics recorded for this dataset