Graduate student looks at native sedge grasses and the reclaimation of gravel pads in oil production

January 31, 2011

School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences graduate student Matthew Sean Willison is showing that native sedge grasses can play an important role in returning North Slope gravel pads that are no longer being used for oil production to their formerly diverse, natural state. This work is supported by a partnership among SNRAS, Alaska Sea Grant and BP.