Second Post
This is the second blog and the last one before I leave for my expedition. As we learned in class today from reading over the research overview, billions of people rely on trees and forests for shelter, fuel, medicines, stable soils, clean air and fresh water. It is vital that we protect our biodiversity because there are many resources in these forests that may have applications that are yet to be discovered. From the questions that I have been receiving from the students, I am excited to see that the students are thinking of questions that not only relate to the study that I will be doing, but also starting to think about solutions to these problems that we face. Beacuse of the large number of questions, I won't be able to answer all of them, but hopefully by communicating through this blog, I will be able to answer most of your questions. During this study, I will be in the Chesapeake Bay area to study the forest response to climate change. I will be working with some of the foremost forest scientists and institutions in the world at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute to understand these forest processes. We will be researching the climate, tree response and animal responses using several different methods that we will be discussing in class before I leave. Since some of you had such good questions, I will leave you tonight with questions to answer from some of your fellow classmates:
1. How do scientists project future climate and how reliable are these predictions. (Thanks for the question Mhary)
2. Why is observing the forest important? (Thanks for the question Alex)
3. What exactly would happen if there were no forests in the world? (Thanks for the question Melvin)
And thanks for all of the good questions that many of you have been coming up with. Please make sure to follow along in my blog while I am away in Maryland. Enjoy. - Mr. Lewandowski
1. How do scientists project future climate and how reliable are these predictions. (Thanks for the question Mhary)
2. Why is observing the forest important? (Thanks for the question Alex)
3. What exactly would happen if there were no forests in the world? (Thanks for the question Melvin)
And thanks for all of the good questions that many of you have been coming up with. Please make sure to follow along in my blog while I am away in Maryland. Enjoy. - Mr. Lewandowski
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posted by Brad Lewandowski @ 6:39 PM
25 Comments:
Mr. Lewandowski,
So we just had a power outage.. which brings up the question of...
If we use alternate sources of energy, would we have power shortages still?
Or are the chances smaller?
:)
How much pound of oxygen does a tree produce and how much pound of CO2 does a tree take in? Would a tree die if it is only surrounded with CO2?
Alex Luu
Ok.. I just had power OUT!!! wow.. it's crazy.. umm.. so i heard that the mall had backup power but the backup powers went out too! Is there anyway to make renewable energy from natural things like forests? Or like Backup energy?
Mr Lewandowski,
This is Ian from Pd. 3. After the blackout, I had a question stirring in my mind: Can alternative energy resources, such as solar energy, protect people if not decrease the number of power outages?
A question poped up in my head as i was looking at the stars today and was wondering how a moon lights up, but could power be harnessed by the moons rays?
-riken e. :]
What kind of information do you hope to learn from the plant and animal responses?
Also, how will you use this information once you get it?
Finally, why was Chesapeake bay used as the research zone(why not a different one)?
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Scott Ysmamoto
:] hEllo Mr. lEw.. [:
tNx foR apPrEciatiNg my question..
by the way..
i have a few questions again that i want to ask..
i am a nature lover so i'm curious on stuff about the environment..
and so my questions are how do changing climate affect the water cycle like rain..??? and how did plants and animals adapt on the climate change in the past..??
another question i just thought right now is how do climate change affect the balance of the ecosystem?
i'm sure i'll have lots of questions during your trip..
:] have a great trip mR. lEw.. [:
:] ♥♫ mHaRy ♫♥ [:
I was just wonderin. How much of the oxygen in the atmosphere is produced by trees? How much is produced by other plants on land and plants on water such as phytoplankton?
-Devon Tenney Pd1 chem
would it really matter if the earth got hotter by a couple degrees each day ? ~ melissa buck
If 100 trees died. Would it make a big difference in how much air there is in the world?
Is there a way to create "artificial" trees(fake trees that act like real trees, like exchange Co2 for o2, stabilize soil, etc.), to increase the rate at which trees exchange Co2 for o2, and to "disect" the tree to learn more uses for the tree, quicker than we are now?
-Scott Yamamoto
P.S. sorry, but what was that website you told me about in class( the really useful Wind Power site)?
Hey Mister Lew! i got a question too! Do we need forests to survive? I mean like, How does the forests affect us? How does forests stay alive?
Do you think the climate change is making our rainforests weaker, stronger, or having little to no effect?
I think it is making it weaker
- Daniel Yu. Pd.5
how helpful to the community do u believe dat goin on dis trip will be?
Daniel Yu Pd. 5
Hey Mr.Lewandowski,
I was Just wondering if we could get any alternate energy sources from the the star or moonlight.
Your student
Jon Nakasone
will the experiments you'll be doing effect the way that animals live?
How do trees produce water?
Is it possible to produce enough of other plants to break away our dependancy on trees for supplies?
Finally, is it possible to produce/discover a new type of plant that might/could be more effective at reducing greenhous gasses, and giving/providing us with supplies than trees?
P.S. I tried searching for the site you gave me, but no results(on google), so may I have the website again please?
PS II: If we could discover an artificial way of effectively reducing greenhouse gasses at the cost of reducing the amount of "supplies" our planet could give us, would you/us/the world use it, do you think?
Hey, Mr. Lewandowski, if we use too much power at a time,what exactly would happen, basing this off of Tiffany's question?
From,
The Melvin Miyashiro
Hello Tiffany,
Even if we had alternate sources of energy power outages would still occur because the electricty still needs to be transported over a certain area so the electrical lines could still be knocked down or interfered with. Thanks for the question.
Alex,
I don't know the exact amount of Oxygen that a tree takes in or CO2 given off because it depends on several factors such as the type of tree, the age of the tree and other environmental factors. Good question
Tim,
I'm not sure if there is a way that scientists may think of to get energy directly from the forest, but renewable energy doesn't necessarily mean we would have fewer power outages. Thanks
Ian,
Unless the solar power was directly connected to a house rather than a power plant, I don't think that the power outage would be stopped. Keep thinking of good questions
Riken,
The moon actually lights up because the suns rays are reflected off of it so in answer to your question, the moon isn't actually giving off any energy like the sun. But if we could figure out an efficient way to get that energy from the sun, it may be very useful to society. Good
Hey Scott,
Hopefully I answered the questions in my recent blog, but they are using this area because the person that used to own this land died and in his will donated this land to the Smithsonian Institution. It makes for a very good ecological study area as well because there are bay studies as well as land studies that the scientists can do.
i know that forests take up a lot of space and that we need trees to produce many different products that people need. but what happens if we cut down too many trees? how big of an impact will it have?
-- hannah arakawa.
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