23.5 Mile Per Hour Winds

Hello Everyone - I am getting a lot of questions that I can not answer because of lack of time. I apologize for that and if you keep track of the questions in your journal or continue to ask them, but I may have to answer them when I return. Well, today we did a lot more tree coring. Someone asked me how many trees we had to core. We had to core 50 trees in the tundra forest and 50 trees in the forest. Now remember, we had to take the DRC (diameter at root crown) core and the DCH (diameter at chest height) core. Therefore, we need 100 trees total with two cores from each tree. We did a lot of drilling. So, once we core these trees what can we learn from the cores? (“comment” me the answer) Another person asked what we use the straws for when coring trees. We use them to basically hold the core until we get back to the lab. The core fits right into the straw and we tape both ends and label them. Once we get back to the lab we lay them on a board to dry. Again, we have to label them a second time once on the board. Now you know why this is so time consuming. Students, this weekend I have off on Saturday. We get the whole day to ourselves to do whatever we want. We will be going on a Trails and Roads tour. We get to go down all the different trials that may lead us to the infamous polar bear. In the afternoon I think we are going to visit a museum. So, I will most likely not post a blog on Friday night or Saturday night. I will check it for anyone who whats to comment. Especially my "emergency" kids. (you know who you are, I will be back soon. Hang in there) What I will do is post lots and lots of pictures. I will mostly likely make a link to a website that has all my pictures on it. I know you guys/girls would love to look at pictures and not read a long blog. Today was a VERY windy day. Watch the video of Erin and you can get an idea of how windy it was. The wind got up to 23.5 miles per hour. When you watch the video it is really hard to hear because of the wind. Basically, in the video Erin is using the anemometer and I was asking her the wind speed and temperature. But the only thing you can hear is the wind. Once we got done with the tree coring we moved to the next data collection process of looking for seedlings and saplings. Let me know what you find out about the difference between a seedling and sapling. We basically crawl on our hands and knees and look for the specimen. Once we find them we make qualitative and quantitative observations about them. The method we are using is called destructive sampling. What I mean by this is that once we make our observations we remove the plant and bring it back to the lab. Then the scientists can make further observations and conclusions. Again we need 50 seedlings and 50 saplings in both the forest and forest tundra. We have to carry all the material back to the lab. So it comes to 100 seedlings and 100 saplings. Although, I have included a picture of the seedling so you can see its size. Ok, That is it for today cause you guys only have a half day. Have a good weekend and be safe. Oh yea, do me a favor. My roomate is Mr. Hoovey and he is kind of sad cause he isn't getting many comments from his students. Go on his page and show him some support from Cudahy!!! Thanks guys. CUDAHY STUDENTS: Look up bold words, answer questions above, comment Mr. Hoovey (he is from Buffalo, NY and loves Labman)