Cleveland State Grounds Department

Lunchtime Nature Walks

Would you like a guided tour of the CSU campus to learn about the many species of trees and plants you encounter every day? Join the Grounds Department The Cleveland State Rec Center for a lunchtime walk around campus. We'll meet in front of the Student Center and spend the lunch hour with a horticultural expert who will share some fascinating facts about the wide variety of plant species found on our urban campus.  Please reach out to the Rec Center or Grounds for upcoming walks.  Private Walks are available upon request. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Student Intern Spotlight

I want to introduce you to: 

Brodee Bocek

 

Brodee Bocek is a Student Employee that joined us in September 2021. He helps with campus horticulture, grounds maintenance, and special projects such as the FarmBot. He is an Electrical Engineering student with minors in business and math. He will be graduating in Fall 2024.  He came to Cleveland State University for their Division I fencing program.

 

Map of Cleveland State University Campus Plants and

Virtual Herbarium

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Creators: Heather Toll and Hanna Sauberan

Over the summer, we surveyed the campus grounds and created a map based on the collection of plants at CSU. While out in the field, we identified the plants, took pictures, and plotted points based on the location. Back in the office, we researched more details and characteristics of each plant species using data from North Carolina State Extension, Minnesota Botanical Gardens, United States Department of Agriculture, and Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). This map includes information such as scientific name, common name, habit/type (shrub, forb/herb, vine, grass, etc.), plant grouping in bed, bloom time, bloom color, pH range, moisture use, fruit description, if it¡¯s invasive and/or noxious, and leaf characteristics.

The dashboard is a visual companion to the web map to make the information more digestible. This visual includes bloom time of plants by seasons, a pie chart depicting the various plant types on campus, and two tables showing the total points of forb/herb species and shrub species. The original map is displayed within the visual. Moving or zooming in/out of the map will change the tables and charts to only show information for what is viewed on the map. You can also click on a point and a pop-up with more information, including pictures, will be displayed.

 

Shelbie Seeberg

Shelbie Seeberg is our GIS intern who joined us in January 2021. She is responsible for producing maps, maintaining GIS data, and conducting field surveys and data collection. She is currently updating our CSU Horticulture Tour, which is a 3D map that highlights our almost 1200 trees around campus. She is a triple major in Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, and Urban and Regional studies and will be graduating in Spring 2022. Shelbie is also a women's foil fencer on CSU's fencing team and has been fencing since she was eight.

To see an interview with Shelbie and learn more about the CSU Horticulture Tour please take a look at CSU Tumbler.

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Please allow us to introduce our Cleveland State University Tree Tour.  This an Interactive GIS-based map of the trees on Campus, It was developed through a partnership between:

 The Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs 

Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences  

and F.A.S.T. 

CSU Tree and Horticulture Tour

Click Here for the original Cleveland State Tree Tour

 

Timothy J. Square Jr.
Superintendent of Grounds and Motor Pool
Campus Location: PA 102
Phone: 216.687.6904
Email: t.square@csuohio.edu