Jock Marshall Reserve – Redevelopment Proposal

To restore and enhance the range of habitats and experimental facilities available in the Jock Marshall Reserve in order to foster teaching and research, and to provide a resource for public outreach.

• To re-establish indigenous terrestrial vegetation in order to provide opportunities for future research
• To re-establish mammal populations for public outreach and to provide the basis for a radio-tracking exercise (in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science).
• To establish a settling pond and treatment wetland, with radio-telemetry monitoring of water quality (in collaboration with the Department of Computer Science and the Faculty of Engineering).

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• To engage in public outreach via interpretive signage and opportunities to view aquatic and terrestrial vegetation and biota.
• To restore a range of habitats in the lake via dredging and shaping the lake bottom, facilitating additional teaching and research in the JMR.
• To improve access in the JMR in order to improve opportunities for teaching exercises and research, through the construction of a network of roads, boardwalks and sampling piers.
• To create the Facility for Aquatic Science, Teaching and Research (FASTR), a world class aquatic research facility by creation of experimental sets of microcosms, mesocosms and in-ground ponds in and around the existing Building 42.