Hello! My name is Brian Knoop. I teach 7th & 8th grade science at St. Henry School in Nashville, TN. Please join me as I travel to Churchill Canada to study Climate change.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Answers to some of your questions

Hey Mr. Knoop !! Hope you're having fun being a tourist !!
How big is the largest polar bear that the scientist who researches them has told you about ???? In talking w/ one of the researchers who is currently up here he said they had one the other day who is two meters in length and weighed slightly over 700 kilograms.

juan josé r. 7p

How many whales, if any, did you see in Churchill ??? We did not count. There were many in the bay out by the grain elevator. They were easy to spot.

Juan José R. 7P

What is your favorite activity at the CNSC ?? Sleeping or eating. :) The rest of the time is working.

Juan José R. 7P

Hi, Mr. Knoop!! what kind of bugs are flying around you in that picture, and are they poisonous? Have fun on your tourist day! The bugs are tiny black flies or mosquitoes. They are not poisonous, but the black fly bites can cause swelling and redness.

<3 TORI C. :D

hey mr. knoop! i have some questions:
-How long does it take you to find decaying organic matter? Not long at all. Most of the time is it close to the surface and in some locations in goes down quite deep.
-How much organic matter have you found so far? A bunch, anywhere we dig it is there.
-Do you measure the seedlings and look for organic matter in the same day or do you do them on separate days? We do that at each site. We dig and get samples of organic matter and count seedlings in each location. That has been our primary focus on the expedition.
-What did you do as a "tourist" today? We saw polar bears, bald eagles, falcons, whales, a fox, jellyfish on the beach, sandhill cranes, canadian eskimo dogs along with many other wonders of nature.
Hope your having fun and I hope these are considered legit questions! Great questions.
Sarah G.

2 Comments:

At September 13, 2009 7:18 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

hi its emily m. and i want some clipboard points and im kinda bored so here are some great questions(only answer th eones that I will get points for idf oyu want to):
when you were on your tour did you see any sharks?
how big were the baluga whales and do they live there all year?
do the whales have a horn like unicorns do?

 
At October 14, 2009 4:37 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dear Mr. Knoop,

I personally think that humans are causing drastic speeding up of the Earth's natural heating and cooling cycle. I believe that this will cause a problem if now but in the distant future.

Also, heating Earth is causing the polar icecaps to melt, which then cause flooding and rising of water levels. The rising water levels can put certain cities in danger, and destroy communities with floods.

I also think that the levels of pollution, which are extremely high, are causing many people to fall ill when otherwise they might be fine.

I think that humans are causing drastic changes on Earth and that we should change our ways so to reach a better world for us and our posterity to live in. If we try hard enough and stick to it we can save the Earth from any further damage. After all, Earth is all we've got.
Rebecca Clark

 

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