Hello and welcome to my blog about Climate Change and Forest sustainability. I am very privileged to have this great opportunity given to me by the Earthwatch program and HSBC. Over the course of the next few weeks, I will be writing about how scientists are able to monitor climate change and the effects that climate change has on the sustainability of forests. We have all heard about global warming in the news media and many of us ask ourselves, what can I possibly do to help this situation? My answer to this question was to join Earthwatch to find out how scientists are doing these studies and bring those lessons back to my students to figure out what we can do to help protect our environment. I am hoping that you will join my quest as I learn more about climate change and how that climate change is affecting our planet. Who knows, maybe this will inspire some of you to go out and become the engineers of the future who will be developing the technologies that will get us out of the predicament that we are now in. Perhaps we can envision a world where our fossil fuel use is minimal and instead we are using wind, wave, solar, geothermal or any of the other creative uses of renewable energy that your young minds may create. Because climate change is such a broad and challenging problem, I am hoping that we can begin to make a change by studying how this climate change is affecting forest sustainability and how forest managers may be able to help protect these forests with the studies that we do. Here are a few questions to some of my students that are related to lessons we have been discussing and the expedition I will be going on:
1. Why do you think it is important to monitor forests throughout our country?
2. What types of variables do you think would be necessary for a study such as this?
3. How do the scientists working on this project use the scientific method in order to solve this problem?
1. Why do you think it is important to monitor forests throughout our country?
2. What types of variables do you think would be necessary for a study such as this?
3. How do the scientists working on this project use the scientific method in order to solve this problem?
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posted by Brad Lewandowski @ 7:16 PM
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How would we encourage competition between these alternative energy sources, and how could we commercialize them? -Scott Y.
what experaments are you gunna do?
your best/and favorite student....Chris A.
Good questions Scott. It's nice to see that you are blogging right away and it's always nice to have your questions in class. In response to your questions, I would say that there already is competition among these alternative energy sources. There are scientists and engineers working hard on these issues and they are competing to see who can come up with the cheapest, cleanest, most abundant energy possible. I think that once the disadvantages of each alternative energy are worked out, they will be more commercialized, but some are beginning to become more commercialized each day such as solar and wind power. Thanks for your question Scott. - Mr. Lewandowski
how are you guys doing this expirement and where are you guys doing this expirement. Also where do these scientists come from?-Ernesto Salazar
Hey Chris, or should I say my best and favorite student. Funny Chris. We will be doing several experiments during the investigation. We will be monitoring temperature data of the air and soil, measuring tree size using instruments called dendrometers, and looking at local animal species as well. I will give you a lot more detail once I am in Maryland and I will also give all of you a research overview too, but thanks for the question.
-Mr. Lewandowski
What else besides global warming effects the sustainability of the forests?
And sorry to burst your bubble Chris but im his favorite, but u can be second.
Daniel Yu!
What Forest are you scientist going to be researching?What type of animals live there? and also after you study the forest, what can actually be done to preserve it as much as possible from the climate change? - Riken E. :]
How are you doing this research like what tools and what do you need to do with these tools to monitor these forests.- Isaiah B.
Is your team planning to invent a product to sell to the world? Chris A.
hey Mr.lewandwoski how would the scentist over there where ever your at do if in one area they found the most polution and how would they slove that problem ???
kelani quinata
pd.5
Hey Mr. Lewandowski,
When you are up in Maryland performing you experiment on climate change, what would be done in the step by step procedure to help you find out what's effecting the climate change? Also is it possible for animals that live in the environment to effect climate change, or even the decreasing of trees?
-Alissah Longboy
Why is observing the forest important? What can the forest tell us about climate change and global warming? How are the scientists going to monitor the forest?
Alex Luu
Hey that's an interesting research you're doing. So what will you guys do after the research? Is there a solution to stop Global Warming? To me, i think there is no solution to stop it. Here's a link i found. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqPjxsAuUxk
Haha:] Is putting ice cubes really helpful? Just curious.. Anyways im hoping to see a good results.
How much percent of the time do you think you will be out in the field? and what do are you gonna do when your not in the field.
- Daniel Y.
P.S. Dont forget, im the kid who's your favorit student
Hi Mr. Lew..
I'm just wondering..how do scientist project future climate?and how reliable are these predictions?..
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Is it possible for the scientists to effectively replace the ozone[with(3 oxygen atoms-O3), or more ozone], to create clouds(which, if I remember correctly, may lower greenhouse gasses), or to reduce deforestation, using recycled paper, and to create ways that trees can be quickly, and efficiently planted in mass numbers?
-Scott Y.
Two questions I have for you. One, what do you think is has the best chances of being a renewable sources. Two, what exactly would happen if there is no forests in the world?
From,
Melvin "K, so" Miyashiro
Period 6
I know that it's really important to monitor forests but are you guys going to monitor some other stuff like the sea?
Umm...
Mr. Lewandowski..
Are you planning to post the second set of questions?
Just wondering..
And also I was wondering how does measuring tree trunk sizes help with the research you are doing?
What would you use to measure the quality of the environment?(And by what standards would you use to tell of what quality it is?)
if the world would go without a forest what would happen to the human race ???
Mr. Lewandowski,
This is Ian from Pd. 3. I want to know how forests can help protect the environment and how they can be used to do so
Is global warming the only thing that affects thje forest?
Do you think it is more important that we invest more on looking for more alternative sources rather than trying to obtain more of what we have like fossil fuels and such. I heard several conspiracies that with all the technology we have it is inevitable that we should have already discovered at least one source that is much more efficient than what we currently use today. Instead the government is trying to hide that because of the personal financial benefits they obtain from oil. Do you have any comments on that?
-Prince M.
how would planting more trees in your local area impact global warming and what are some ways that we could help our environment at home? - melissa buck
how would planting more trees in your local area impact global warming and what are some ways that we could help our environment at home? - melissa buck
Jahdiel Seiuli
why is studying animal responses important in your research?
Are you gunna use satellites?
Mr.CHRIS
What are some other ways that we can help prevent Global warming right now?- Jon Nakasone
howzit mista lewandowski...now i noe dat daniel & chris sed their ur FAVE students but i tink me & camille got dat on lockdown auready..lol..well i jus wanted 2 noe if wen you guys or scientists or whatever, are gonna do dis experiment,will the weather change ur outcome? Although i have no idea wat i jus asked u my brother kinda helped me understand. haha...well have a gud trip & bring me somethin' baq plzz.Somethin' cute. ho, so podagee i stay riting...wen u cum baq u gotta check my spellin'...lol.
*precious akui* your FAVE student..like duhhh
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