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Current Projects
The UCF land management team works closely with the academic departments to support undergraduate and graduate research on campus.

Current field projects include:
* Restoration of Arboretum
* Reduction of fragmentation
* Wildlife/species identification and surveys
* Mapping (using GPS)
* Invasive and exotic plant control & education
* Herpetological surveys
* Ecological/habitat monitoring
* Invertebrate monitoring & sampling (conducted by the UCF Bug Closet)
* Stormwater monitoring
* Development of wildland-urban management techniques

Current research projects include:
* Effects of prescribed burning on vegetation structure and succession
* Effects of fuel load on vegetation response to prescribed fire (conducted by Restoration Ecology & System Sustainability classes)
* Hydrology of urban wetland fragments (conducted by land management crew)
* Wildlife Crossing Project (managed by Dr. Reed Noss, Biology Department)