David Moorhead, professor of silviculture, and Chuck Bargeron, technology director at the Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health in the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, received $15,000 from the Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Piedmont to develop a smartphone application for the National Park Service that will help park visitors identify and report invasive plants. The application will allow users to take photos and map locations of non-native plant species, then send the information to park staff, alerting them to areas that need aggressive plant management. Moorhead and Bargeron are co-principal investigators, and Bargeron is also the lead developer for the project, which is expected to be completed by early 2014.
