Dr. Royann Petrell has engineering students growing eelgrass in four tanks located in the courtyard of the Chemical and Biological Engineering building on East Mall as part of a community service learning (CSL) partnership with the Comox Valley Project Watershed Society. Dr. Petrell integrated CSL components into her second- and fourth-year chemical and biological engineering courses last year in an effort to evaluate carbon storage by estuarine vegetation systems and to assess the effects of community based restoration efforts on eel grass meadows and how well these plants remove the greenhouse gas from the atmosphere.

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