[Education] Fwd: Invitation to Collaborate/Participate in Purdue University's Research about Greenspaces

[Lorraine Kells]

Begin forwarded message:
Hello CCGA,

If you have not already received this survey please consider completing it
and possibly sharing it with fellow community gardeners.  It is brief, easy
to complete in 5 minutes or less and very important.


*From: *Mayra I Rodriguez-Gonzalez <rodri479 at purdue.edu>
*Subject: **Invitation to Collaborate/Participate in Purdue University's
Research about Greenspaces*
*Date: *February 24, 2020 at 5:01:49 AM CST

Hello,

My name is Mayra Rodríguez and I am a graduate student under the mentorship
of Dr. Brady Hardiman (https://www.purdue.edu/fnr/sites/hardiman/) in the
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue University. You are
receiving this email because the contact information we are writing to was
linked to a community garden in the Chicago area.

In partnership with the Indiana Water Resources Research Center, we
developed a survey that measures value, accessibility and usage of
ecological goods in the Illinois and Northwestern Indiana communities of
the Chicago Region as part of a larger ongoing project in our laboratory.
In our survey, which has been distributed through email and social media,
we asked respondents to suggest who else to contact.

A common suggestion was community gardens, so we are reaching out for your
help. We kindly request that you consider sharing our survey with your
email contacts or in your social media (or that of your community garden,
if applicable) to better target our audience of interest, residents of the
Chicago region.

Our goal is to use the findings from our survey to inform future greenspace
planning and management of ecological goods in the area. The survey is
available in both English and Spanish, and it should take no more than 20
minutes to complete. It can be accessed using the following links:

English: https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0DFc6HAYBPbez0F

Spanish: https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8B6PEDNIiViujJj

We have also attached a promotional flyer that can be printed or shared
through email and social media. The flyer contains shortened URLs and a QR
code to the survey.

If you are interested in learning more about the project or us, we are also
happy to answer any of your questions or concerns. If you would like to
revise the survey questions beforehand, we can provide you with a sample.

Please let us know whether you would be interested in collaborating with us
by sharing our links with your contacts. Also, feel free to take the survey
yourself if you are interested. All responses from residents in these
locations are welcomed!

Thank you for your time and consideration,

Mayra I. Rodríguez González
Ph.D. Candidate
Forest and Urban Systems Ecology (FUSE) Lab
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources
Purdue University
rodri479 at purdue.edu

Brady S. Hardiman
Assistant Professor of Urban Ecology and Principal Investigator
Forest and Urban Systems Ecology (FUSE) Lab
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources & Department of Environmental
and Ecological Engineering
Purdue University
767-799 W State Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
hardimanb at purdue.edu
Phone: 765-494-3593
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