A great tool to view and monitor the newly rebuilt wetlands adjacent to the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College - still one of the greenest buildings in North America (even after more than 10 years). This panoramic view is made possible using Microsoft Photosynth - an onsite, on-line camera feed.
More on this special restored landscape is available on the college's AJLC site:
"Wetland restoration entails three tasks: reestablishing wet hydrological conditions, reintroducing native species and selectively removing invasive and non-native plant species. With time, a complex set of relationships between living and non-living components develops and results in a resilient ecological system that is resistant to invasive species and to disturbance. The reconstructed wetland at the Lewis Center was initially planted with a diverse community of wetland vegetation in the spring of 2000. Fish and painted turtles were added. Song birds, ducks, toads, frogs and a wide variety of insects also inhabit the wetland but have come of their own accord. In 2010, in response to a breach in the lining the wetland system was rebuilt. The new wetland restoration was expanded in size in order to accommodate a more diverse and representative aquatic ecosystem at a scale that better matches the building. A number of the original plant specimens were saved and reused."
