Alexa Davis, (right) graduate student with the School of Natural Resources, and Tiffany Messer, assistant professor and water quality engineer at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in the Messer Laboratory surrounded by floating wetland experiments.
The grasses are dormant, their brown leaves poking the sky as they float in one of the now-frigid lily ponds in Lincoln, Nebraska's Sunken Gardens — the 1.5-acre public garden at 27th Street and Capital Parkway. During the summer season, the garden contains 30,000 living plants,...
