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	<img alt="" src="{filedir_5}AAC-shoreline-plant1(1).jpg" style="float: right; width: 250px; height: 166px; " />Our summer research students&#39; labors of love are starting to make ripples. &nbsp;Alex de Sosa&#39;s research has become front-page material for the latest <a href="{filedir_5}Invasives newsletter 9-11.pdf">Grand Traverse Regional Invasive Species Network newsletter</a>. &nbsp;</p>
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	While at Au Sable, Alex worked in partnership with the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy to catalog plant species found in six representative shoreline areas around Grand Traverse Bay. &nbsp;The&nbsp;<a href="{filedir_5}Invasives newsletter 9-11(1).pdf">93 plants species</a>&nbsp;she discovered would go on to make up a list of suggested species for homeowners, non-profit organizations, and government agencies to use when doing restoration work on Grand Traverse Bay shoreline.</p>
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	Au Sable representative Dave Mahan and members of the Grand Traverse Regional Land Conservancy presented Alex&#39;s research as part of The Watershed Center&#39;s annual <a href="http://www.gtbay.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Freshwater-Summit-2011-agenda2.pdf">Freshwater Summit</a>.&nbsp;</p>
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	The Au Sable Academic Council (AAC) visited one of Alex&#39;s sites, the Maple Bay Preserve, for a field trip during their annual meeting. &nbsp;The site was also used by Collin Whitsett for his&nbsp;<a href="/news_and_resources/blog/collin_whitsett_pitchers_thistle_research_part_1">pitcher&#39;s thistle research</a>. &nbsp;</p>
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	Read more about Alex&#39;s research experience this summer in her <a href="/news_and_resources/blog/alex_de_sosa_wetlands_research">end-of-summer&nbsp;</a><a href="/news_and_resources/blog/alex_de_sosa_wetlands_research">r</a><a href="/news_and_resources/blog/alex_de_sosa_wetlands_research">eflection piece</a>.</p>
