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Sean Chung

Sean Chung

Sean Chung moved to Bloomington in 2018 for graduate school and studied Energy Policy at Indiana University. After receiving his M.P.A. and M.S.E.S. from the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs in December 2020, Sean became a volunteer at Monroe County–Identify and Reduce Invasive Species (MC–IRIS). A passionate supporter of renewable energy, Sean hopes to pursue a career in developing solar and wind energy.

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It wasn’t until Sean Chung volunteered for a local environmental group that he realized how destructive invasive plants were to the integrity of local ecosystems. In Monroe County, the invasion is held at bay by individuals, neighborhood associations, nonprofit organizations, local government, and even the U.S. Forest Service. The Park Ridge East neighborhood, for example, took advantage of a city grant program to install a native plant garden (pictured) to provide a habitat for butterflies and other pollinators. | Limestone Post

Keeping Invasive Plants at Bay to Prevent ‘Ecological Collapse’
Sean Chung
Before volunteering for a local environmental group, Sean Chung was unaware of the problems invasive plants were causing here in Monroe County and “every single community in the U.S.” For this article, he interviewed people working to “contain the invasion” and prevent the kind of “ecological collapse” that invasives can cause. Click here to read the article.
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