Time To Get Into The Field

High: 12 C
Low: 8 °C
Sunrise: 7:02
Sunset: 19:14

Hello All!! First of all look back at the last days blog comments. I have posted answers to some of your comments. Remember, the newest comment is always on the bottom. Look for my lovely picture on the comment to know it is from me. We have another beautiful day in Churchill. I am really lucking out with the weather. Many students commented me about what to do with your weather calendars while I am gone. Remember, you can use the information I post from Churchill or you can look it up while you are in the lab. I have so many comments and really enjoy hearing from you. Remember, I will not post anything that I don’t understand or not appropriate for the blog, OR about anyone else. Most kids are doing a great job. MANY of you said I need to come back soon!! Well, I guess that won’t happen anytime for awhile, but hang in there you will get through it. Today we received information about what we will study and how we will go about studying the information. Early in the morning we had lecture time, now I know how you guys feel listening to me go on and on when I lecture. haha. But, it was needed so we know what to do once we get to the field. I will be sending many photos. Some of them I will ask you to respond to and others you can just respond to them on your own in your journal. The first picture is of an anemometer. It is a digital one that reads a satellite. Erin and I were messing around with it this morning and it was able to tell us the barometric pressure, altitude, wind chill, and wind speed. It was so cool to work with it. What we are going to be looking at is the tree line at the edge of the forest tundra. This is where the forest ends and the tundra begins. What we should see is that the tree line is stable, not moving in or out. The idea is that if the vegetation is stable, then the climate is stable. The way we will do this is by studying different plots of vegetation. We will study the small vegetation, medium size bushes, and larger trees. The pictures are of some of the vegetation that grows around here. Remember, the growing season isn’t long so much of the vegetation is very small. Look at the tree behind the scientist Steve. That short little tree is about 20yrs old. Think about the size of a 20 year old tree in Wisconsin. WOW! We will also look at the layers of soil, bore some trees, and count many plants. Watch the short video. It is of Erin and she is looking through a clinometers. Write down in your journal what we are trying to figure out about the tree. It looks like Erin is taking a picture of it, but she isn’t. What is she doing? I had a video of me using the clinometer, but it didn't turn out that great. Sorry

Cudahy Students: Make sure to look up the words in bold print. There are six of them. Don't forget to tell me what Erin is doing with Clinometer. Also, I would like you to research the different kinds of vegetation in and around the Churchill, Manitoba area. Look up what kinds of plants grow here. Also, find out how many of them you can eat!! Finally, see if you can find out anything about a plane crash. The picture is of the crash. Kind of cool to see, but kind of bad to have been on the plane. Let me know on your comments about the crash. Have FUN!!