By jtsherkLAR 524, 2019, Carolina Campus Community Garden Raingarden Design and Phase 1 build, Chapel Hill, NC. The Carolina Campus Community Garden (CCCG) is a program of the North Carolina Botanical Garden where they grow vegetables and fruit so that all UNC employees have access to fresh, sustainably grown produce. This is made possible through the shared efforts of staff, students, faculty, and local residents. The garden serves as a learning community for developing gardening skills, healthy living, social responsibility, and interdisciplinary academic pursuits. |NC State, Teaching
By jtsherkHS 401, Spring 2015, Mary Yarborough Court Holliday Hall Landscape Improvements. At the macro scale, the benefits of the urban forest include; 1- improvement of air and water quality, 2- reduction of heat island effect (caused by pavement without shade to be 50-90 degrees hotter than the air), 3- Reduction in stormwater runoff and pollution, 4- capture and long term storage of atmospheric carbon dioxide CO2, (which helps to mitigate and/or defer global warming) 5- increase in aesthetic value, 6- provides human recovery from stress. |Teaching
By jtsherkHS357, Fall 2013 - Connections and an artful design for incorporating people spaces and the improvement of stormwater management for steps between Dail Field and Weisinger–Brown Athletic Facility which adjoins the Rocky Branch Creek stream restoration at NC State were done in collaboration with Dr. Barbara Doll, a civil engineer and Water Quality Specialist with NC Sea Grant, and the Design/Build team at the NC State Grounds Management and Landscape Construction Services (GMLCS) office in the Facilities division.