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=__Green Roof__=

**Group Members:**
Jen Diehl - jldiehl@uvm.edu Nick Warren - ntwarren@uvm.edu Ben Galligan -bgalliga@uvm.edu

**The Goal:**

 * The goal of this project is to improve the green roof, the systems that work with it, and data collected from it. This goal will be achieved by completing the objectives listed below.

**Objectives:**

 * 1) Species Identification - There are 4 different treatments each replicated twice. 1 – Control, 2 – Standard plant and soil, 3 – Standard plants and biochar added to soil (carbon based, byproducts of burning organic material), 4 – Alternative plants and standard soil. Once weeding was stopped, a plant species sprung up only in the biochar soil treatments and we want to analyze how this came to be and why no other treatments have signs of this species.
 * 2) Data Analysis - Over the past years data has been collected even by previous groups and we aim to consolidate the data and visually portray it. Data includes things like flux of certain molecules that pass through plants, and total volume of water that passes through plants. This is important, because one of the goals of these plants is to transpire water to lessen the amount that goes into our sewage treatment water.
 * 3) New Data Loggers - Figure out the logistics of hiring someone to help on programming it. Look into how much insurance money we can get, and what that will cover.
 * 4) Fertilizer- Every couple of years the green roof needs to be fertilized again. We will look into different types of fertilizers, and look into multiple application techniques.
 * 5) Cleaning and calibrating current water buckets (8). Once clean, we will fine tune the buckets so that the data logger will read each time the bucket dumps and record what it finds.
 * 6) Linking live video camera to touch screen in Aiken. There is a touch screen in Aiken that plays through a bunch of pictures. We thought it would be interesting if we could have a live look on top of the roof to help people visualize the green aspects of Aiken better.