Living Machine Projects
![Large plants get sun by the glass wall of the AJLC building lobby.](https://www.oberlin.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_760/public/content/basic-page/header-image/living_machine_plants.jpg?itok=535eIHDa)
The Living Machine in the spring of 2018.
Photo credit: Olivia Booth-Howe ’20
The Living Machine provides excellent opportunities for Oberlin College students and the community to explore issues of wastewater, wetland ecology, microbiology and plant dynamics.
It has served as a laboratory for students of systems ecology, mathematics, environmental chemistry and microbiology, and it has been the focus of several independent student research projects.
Area elementary through high-school students visiting the Living Machine learn about the importance of wastewater treatment for maintenance of healthy rivers and lakes and how wetland ecosystems purify polluted water.