In 2024, volunteers Charlie Staines, Sue Staines, and Erin Allen identified 133 species new to SERC's Edgewater campus, bringing the campus total to 1090! Inventory work will continue in 2025 and we hope to reach 1,200 species by the end of 2025.

In 2024, Charlie and Sue worked with the Spatial Ecology and Conservation Lab on a new ground beetle study at the BiodiversiTREE site on SERC’s campus, where a 100-year-long experiment is being done see if tree diversity (less or more) during restoration affects the ecosystem. The study aims to understand the effect of microclimate on ground beetle diversity and abundance. Stay tuned for results!