Campus Needs and Project Lists

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1		SUBMIT NEW projects at the bottom of ACTIVE Section	The following Living Lab PROJECT LISTS include projects that are active and historic. Use CTRL+F (Command+F on Mac) to search for potential projects relevant to your coursework or interests.
2	Living Lab Impact Areas	Project and/or Course Title	Brief Description	Project Partners (Academic / Operational Contacts)	Project Dates / Duration	Students Engaged	Needs Met	Active / Historic	Outcomes specific to campus needs and strategic goals	Successful Components / Outputs / Outcomes Achieved	Next Steps / Future Work / Areas for Improvement	Archive Ready Research / Reports / Data/ Maps	Web Links amd Other Output	Next Action (for supervisor or OoS use only)

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4	Energy	Campus LED Retrofit Analysis (2019-Current)	Student teams in the College of Engineering's Sustainable Building Design course are tasked with assisting UGA's Facility Management Division (FMD) in its LED retrofit project. The department has been actively replacing existing lighting fixtures or bulbs with high efficiency LED replacements. The teams identify the quantity of various fixtures to be removed and the associated costs for making the conversion in three campus buildings.	Jason Perry	2019-Current	Class capstone	Academic and Operational	Active	Reduce facility energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions related to the operation of campus facilities. (FMD Unit Goal)
5	Food & Dining	UGarden	UGarden	April McCoy		Multiple Student Types	Community	Active		Continued and new relationships with UGA classes (both experiential learning and service learning) where students are actively involved in the growing of food for the community. Established realtionship with SGA's Fresh Express to provide fresh produce for students in need on a weekly basis.			UGArden website
6	Food & Dining	Campus Kitchen	Campus Kitchen	Andie Bisceglia		Multiple Student Types	Community	Active
7	Waste	Trash Trap	Trash Trap	OoS, Kevin Kirsche, Peggy		Class module		Active
8	Waste	Dumpster Studies	Dumpster Studies					Active
9	Waste	Campus Compost Program	A team of Office of Sustainability Interns coordinates the pickup of compost from approximately 60 academic and housing buildings. The program is highly visible due to the use of electric tricycles and intern labor to service the bins. The goal of the program is for every student, faculty and staff on campus to have access to composting. The program is a stepping stone to making composting a component of routine material handling across campus.	Justin Ellis, program supervisor	When did the project launch?	Internship	Operational	Active		The linkage for this program is students actively involved in an operational component of campus which raises the visbility and interest in this practice.			Two StoryMaps under development	Justin to fill out description
10	Waste	Green Labs	Green Labs	Star Scott		Internship	Academic and Operational	Active	Reduce facility energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions related to the operation of campus facilities. (FMD Unit Goal)
11	Grounds	Polllinator Research	UGA Polllinator Project	Tyra Byers, Dr. Carmen Blubaugh, Dr. Richard Hall, others			Academic and Operational	Active		`
12	Grounds	Campus Arboretum	The Campus Arboretum project promotes the Arboretum as a educational and well-being tool through the development of GIS walking tours.	Steve Mitchum, Aleisha Gwin	When did this begin - current	Individual project	Academic and Operational	Active		Digitized past Arboretum efforts and made them available through the Living Lab Archive. Utilize GIS Storymaps to convey the Campus Arboretum Walks.	Make digital maps of the Arboretum available for use by other Living Lab projects through the Living Lab Archive. Promote as a tool for both well-being and education.	UGA Campus Arboretum Walk PDF - submitted 5 Story Maps - ready to submit with abstract
13	Grounds	Plants, Pollinators, and You (HORT 4770/6770)	From syllabus -As a capstone experience, you will conduct a service-learning project that will employs skills and knowledge learned in the course. The project will be in collaboration with outside partners (HOAs, community gardens) to assess pollinator diversity and provide customized action steps to improve pollinator habitat. In your assessment of the landscape chosen by your community partner, you will apply a standard rubric (provided in the course materials). Based on the assessment, you will write a report which you will share with the community partner, along with detailed guidelines and recommendations on how to improve their landscape/garden as a pollinator space.	Dr. Bodie Pennisi		Class capstone	Academic and Operational	Active
14	Grounds	Forest Health and Protection (FORS 4210/6210)	One of the labs and the final lab assignment involve assessing the health of the landscaping trees on campus and scouting for the presence of biotic or abiotic stressors.	Caterina Villari				Active
15	Grounds	Landscape Architecture Studio II - Landscape Design (Land 2020), Landscape Lighting (LAND 4660), Soil and Stormwater Management for Landscape Architects (Land 5350)	All three courses use multiple sites across campus for existing conditions study and for proposed modifications modeling	Ronald Sawhill			Academic and Operational	Active
16	Water	Senior Project FANR 4500s	Service learning capstone project in Warnell. Spring 2022 had 3 students evaluate trail use, erosion,and water quality at Lake Herrick/Oconee Forest Park to prioritize trail mantenance with warnell staff	Peter Hazelton			Academic and Operational	Active
17	Water	Aquatic Biology (FISH 4200), FISH 8300 BIV - grad seminar	Reservoir residence time of Lake Herrick, Invasive Species Monitoring at Whitehall forest	Peter Hazelton			Academic and Operational	Active
18	Food & Dining	Sustainability of Resilient Food Systems	Students will be expected to complete a project that is aimed at addressing one of many challenges associated with resilient food systems (including local solutions).	Amrit Bart			Academic and Operational	Active
19	Grounds/Restoration	Center for Community Design and Preservation Director					Academic and Operational	Active
20	Purchasing	Green Cleaning Supply Chain	Student intern is expected to take ownership of work and implement sustainable methods of inventory and material management on the UGA campus	Latosha Pittard, Daniel Zhao	When did this project first start? Spring 2021	Internship	Operational	Active		Students get direct experience interacting with operational staff and implementing a project rollout.	Understanding and developing roadmap where material and inventory are accurately reported and accounted for. Expansion of the automated system to the entire campus is the end goal.		Are there some project outputs that we could link to? Fall22-SiR, Staff Training
21	Waste	Net Zero Emissions Plan for UGA Waste Reduction Services	Develop a GHG emissions inventory and reduction plan for WRS operations including vehicle fuel use, electricity use, waste generation, etc.	Mason Towe / Engineering, MIS		Class capstone	Academic and Operational	Active
22	Waste	Jenna Jambeck's class working with Vending Services	Get plastics out of the vending machines. John Hall from Vending Services. Microplastics in Housing. Matthew Deason head of facilities in housing.
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35	Energy	Solar PV Studies	Solar PV Studies					Historic
36	Water	Watershed UGA	Watershed UGA	Tyra Byers				Historic
37	Water	Water Quality Monitoring	Water Quality Monitoring					Historic
38	Water	Sediment Sampling	Sediment Sampling				Academic	Historic
39	Water	Lilly Branch Restoration Design	Lilly Branch Restoration Design				Academic and Operational	Historic
40	Water	Lake Herrick (Surveys, Floating Wetlands, Algae Monitoring)	Lake Herrick (Surveys, Floating Wetlands, Algae Monitoring)					Historic
41	Water	Cistern Assessment	Cistern Assessment	Ian Van Giesen			Academic and Operational	Historic
42	Transportation	Bike Infrastructure Stories	Bike Infrastructure Stories	Ian Van Giesen			Academic and Operational	Historic
43	Transportation	Bus Transit EV / PV Study	Bus Transit EV / PV Study				Academic and Operational	Historic
44	Grounds	IM Fields Nutrient / Water Study	IM Fields Nutrient / Water Study					Historic
45	Waste	Trayless Dining	Trayless Dining					Historic
46	Waste	Atlas Study	Atlas Studuy					Historic
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