The LBIF Science Committee (LBIF SC) wants to make everyone aware of our various projects so they can enjoy them or help out.

Rain Garden

Sandy Anton planned and oversaw the installation of the rain garden in the northeast corner of the LBIF property. Local boy scouts constructed benches and bird houses for achievement badges. The garden has become a beautiful centerpiece of the Science Committee’s efforts to provide lessons in stormwater runoff, coastal ecology and soils, habitats and gardening is also the spot for creative art, peaceful walks and learning about the simple ways we all can protect the fragile coastal environment we all love living here on the Bay and Ocean.

View Youtube Presentation About the Rain Garden

 

 

What We Did and Why (3:52)

Which Plants and Why (3:56)

Raingarden Soils (5:02)

Resources

Low impact Rain Gardening  In NJ - Rain gardens, step by step.  What to do after you decide you want to have a rain garden but don’t know where it should go or what it could look like.

Rain Garden 1 to24

http://www.lowimpactdevelopment.org/raingarden_design/download.htm

Rain Garden 25 to 48

http://www.lowimpactdevelopment.org/raingarden_design/downloads/NPSNJRainGardenManual(Pages25-48).pdf

Low Impact Development (LID) Research Projects in Edison, New Jersey

In October 2009, EPA completed construction of an experimental parking lot and rain garden at its Edison, New Jersey, laboratory as part of a long-term project to research the capabilities of these LID features.

http://www.epa.gov/oaintrnt/stormwater/edison_swm_projects.htm

Botanical-based insecticides (aka botanicals) are pesticides derived from plants and plant products. Botanical-based insecticides without toxic synergists, are defined as 'low impact pesticides' under the New Jersey School IPM Act.

http://pestmanagement.rutgers.edu/IPM/SchoolIPM/NJAct/lowimpactbotanical.htm

Lecture 1: Course Introduction & Low Impact Development - Slide 1

 

File Format: Microsoft Powerpoint - View as HTML TOPIC: Low Impact Development and Sustainable Site Design. Meeting Time ... Rutgers Water Resources Rain Garden. Walnut Avenue School, Union County NJ ... www.water.rutgers.edu/.../BioenvironmentalEngineeringDesignIntro.ppt

 

New Jersey Information Network for Pesticides & Alternative ...

 

File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Quick View More than 70 project web pages (with 18 low impact pesticide pages added to the ... Home & Garden. – Integrated Pest Management. – Storm Drainage ...

 

Who created the Garden?

LBIF Staff

Christopher Seiz, Executive Director – Budget and funding

Science Committee Co-Chairs

Angela Contillo Anderson - Grant writer

Rick Bushnell

Science Committee - Rain Garden Project Manager

Sandra Anton

 Primary Partner:

Kline Landscaping, Barnegat Light - John and Tina Kline, proprietors

 Partners:

1.       Marilyn Schmidt - Local author - former long time resident of Barnegat Light and current owner of the Chatsworth General Store and Pinelands Press. Her book, Gardening on the Eastern Shore, in a newly revised edition, was used to help plan the garden. Marilyn consulted on plant selection and donated copies of the book to be sold to help raise funds for the garden.

2.       Rare Find Nursery - Jackson, NJ - Jason Austin - Donated plant materials and advised on plant selections. Rare Find Nursery wrote a letter of support for the grant to secure additional funding for the project.

3.       Pinelands Nursery - Columbus, NJ - Fran Chismar - Advised on plant selection.

4.       Seashore Nursery & Typestries Sign and Design - Rick McDonough - Manahawkin, NJ - Donated plant materials and expedited marketing materials.

5.       “For the Love of Trees” - Pine Beach, NJ - Stephanie Turner, Botanist Proprietor and State Licensed Arborist - Tree maintenance, feeding, and pest control. Donated specimen tree.

6.       Boy Scout Troop 65 and Cub Scout Pack 18 – Glenn Gautier, Scout Leader – Constructed benches and bat house for use in the garden.

7.       Pat Dagnall - Barnegat resident and LBIF Ceramicist - Planned and implemented Rain Barrel Garden on South side of LBIF Main Building.

8.       Paul Daukas - Harvey Cedars, NJ and Bucks County, PA - Artist donated artwork to be used for greeting cards for fundraising for the Rain Garden.

9.       Liz Oliner – Loveladies and Montclair, NJ - Graphic Artist designed the greeting cards for the fundraising effort.

10.       Forest Resource Education Center - Jackson, NJ - Terry O’Leary - Consulted on Plant selection and overall garden design.

11.       Soil Conservation District - Forked River, NJ - Dave Friedlander - Consulted on soil evaluation and treatment in preparation of the garden.

12.       Rutgers Cooperative Extension - Rich Mohr - Soil evaluation, educational materials, and general support.

13.       Master Gardeners (Ocean and Union County) - Soil evaluation, educational materials, and general support.

14.       Enrico Marini - LBIF Facilities Manager - Provided invaluable assistance to Project Manager with soil tests, site evaluation, irrigation installation, and rain barrel garden construction.

15.       Ocean County Recycling – Compost and Mulch from recycled materials.

16.       Jay Madden Architects – Harvey Cedars, NJ - Provided detailed renderings of the proposed garden  for marketing materials

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Other Projects:

Exploring Science at LBIF 2011

If you want to know more about the world in which you live we invite you to participate in some mind expanding activities! We invite you to explore with us. “LBIF Science Explorers.”   Science Explorers come in all sizes, ages and levels of knowledge, but we share one thing in common; a love of learning and a curiosity about the world around us.  So welcome to the club!

We will be offering an extensive schedule of science programming in 2011. As you know we have 21 acres of marshes and wetlands, as well as labs, classrooms, and an art gallery where people of all ages can experience fun and learning unlike anywhere else on Long Beach Island so we want to bring our members and our community here to enjoy and learn from our environment.

We are looking for volunteers to get more involved in our activities by learning and acting as informal guides. We’d call them Explorer/guides to welcome people at various LBIF functions (an hour at a time on certain days). We will offer training to these Explorer/guides and provide handout material. But the goal is for them provide a “personal touch” and find out visitor’s interests and encourage them to participate.  Here is where we can use some help:

• Project Power, a full scale alternative energy demonstration that provides a real learning experience for everyone, especially any homeowner considering energy independence. We’d like volunteers to how off the equipment and explain (in nontechnical terms) how it works.
• Marsh Tours – In 2009 we had more that 250 people visit our facility and, with a naturalist, visit the marsh. People learned about the unique habitat and the critters who call it home. We need volunteers to maintain the marsh path, to help the naturalist and tell visitors about all the things that LBIF has to offer.
• Started in 2010, the LBIF has teamed with Project Terrapin, a rescue mission initiated by Professor John Wnek, from the Marine Academy for Technology and Environmental Sciences. Because of its unique location, the LBIF was selected to help track and monitor the animals, and will eventually provide a hatchery for young terrapins that will increase their chances for survival in the wild. For more information, visit the Project Terrapin website at www.projectterrapin.org. There will be an overview at one of the Science Saturdays in April and then training and participation.
• Give us a call at the LBI Foundation 609-494-1241 and tell us how you would like to be a part of our science program. We’ll get right back to you!

LBIF Science Explorer (and Science Co-Chair) Rick Bushnell

 

   

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