The second cohort of Science CORPS students have completed the program, and they did a phenomenal job! Twenty community college students from across Indiana and Illinois conducted a distributed experiment studying seed predation, testing whether seed predation differs for native vs. exotic plant species, across an urban-rural gradient, and across a latitudinal gradient. They also came up with and tested their own research question: Does seed color affect seed predation? After the official end of Science CORPS, four students stayed on to co-author a poster of their research, and three traveled to Indianapolis last month to present their poster at the Indiana Academy of Sciences Meeting, where they presented two of their key results: seed predation tended to be greater greater in exotic plant species than native species, and seed predation was greater in light colored seeds than dark seeds. Huge congrats to Dylan, Cieara, and Hannah on their amazing presentation, big thanks to Colin for his contribution to the poster, and big thanks as well to the rest of the participants for collecting data and making the summer such a success!
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