Austin Arrington

Plant Group · Engineering

Community gardens are collective projects in which participants collaborate to maintain a garden. They provide many biophysical and cultural ecosystem services, contributing to individual and community resilience and wellbeing. These benefits may be even more appreciated during a crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic. However, since community garden...

Community gardens are collective projects in which participants collaborate to maintain a garden. They provide many biophysical and cultural ecosystem services, contributing to individual and community resilience and wellbeing. These benefits may be even more appreciated during a crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic. However, since community garden...

The practice of collecting wild plants, fungi, and other materials occurs in urban and peri-urban communities around the world, across various socioeconomic, ethnic, and cultural groups, providing sustenance, medicine, materials, social cohesion, and an increased sense of connectedness with nature. Invasive plants, many of which were introduced and...

Data mining of social and photo-sharing websites such as Flickr is a growing research trend in both computer science and for use in ecological monitoring. [1, 2] Analysis of extracted image tag information has been compared with MODIS vegetation indices. However, tags are not always ideal for estimating phenology, and color analysis of visual conte...

Foraging provides decentralized access to food, medicines and other resources for communities across the planet. In urban environments, foraging can support social cohesion, food justice, and ecosystem restoration. Given growing urban populations and an increasing need for sustainable food systems in cities and surrounding areas, urban foraging is...