Brrr...A MN vs. NS Similarity!
Good morning ladies and gentleman scientists of Glacier Hills! It is the start of Day 2 at the expedition site in Nova Scotia and really our first day of field work. I got up early from bed to take a 2 mile run - very cold and very hilly! It is already 8:45 in NS - what were you doing when I wrote this posting?
Watch this short video clip I posted on YoutTube (you may have to copy it into your URL field of Firefox) and listen to some of the things I've been thinking of since we arrived late yesterday afternoon. Inquiry Walk-About - Day 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgYWFeTgLGA
The title of this post reveals a striking similarity between MN and NS - it's still cold even though it's now spring! We arrived to pouring rain - just warm enough not to be snow - and we've barely seen the sun. Hopefully it warms up. I'm dressing in layers though...why is that so important?
Here is my schedule for the day, is there anything here you'd like to know more about?
9:00 Breakfast
10:00 Introductory talk about Mammal Monitoring Science
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Drive to Broad Cove for Field Sign Transect walk along the coast
17:00 Drive back to accommodation
18:00 Dinner
Pass the word around - I'll be live on TQ at 8 p.m. to IM with anyone who wants to - this is a trial IM to see if it is a good idea, if it is and there are a lot of people on TQ I'll do it again and often! Hope to chat with you this evening! Make it an awesome day...
Best Effort All Day Everyday -- G
p.s. Make sure your comment is an I-I
posted by Mr. Gasteazoro @ 6:34 AM
6 Comments:
Tanner and I would like to know what a Field Sign Transect walk entails? What do you hope to find?
Tanner thinks that you may see many sea birds but not many mammals. Is he right in his assumption or not?
Maybe he was on the side of nova scotia that you are facing the u.s.a so the sun looks like the sun fliped sides and is setting were in the U.S it is rising. what is that black ball in the sun shown in your walk about video?
I think I might have an answer to Mr. Pembroke's observation of the sun being in the wrong place! I know Nova Scotia is a peninsula meaning 3 sides of it are surrounded by water, so I think the sun rose on 1 side of Nova Scotia over the water, and will set on the other side of Nova Scotia over the water.
Do you think you will see over 100 mammals this week? Try to keep track of all the mammals you see.
There so many little ponds away from the Ocean by the rocks in your video? Koleton thinks that the water is underground and travels up through the earth, is this correct?
I noticed in your video the ground looked really wet. I'm wondering if it's like that everywhere or if it was just because you were by the coast. I noticed the rocks looked really dark- that makes me think they came from magma or lava. I wonder if Nova Scotia has any extinct volcanoes on it? I also noticed the smaller rocks looked pretty rounded, I'm wondering how they got that way.
A lot of great observations and inquiries!
Here are a few answers:
Mr. Pembroke is a pretty funny guy and was making a joke and a bit of a riddle at the same time. He lives in California where he always sees the sun set out over the Pacific Ocean to the west. In Nova Scotia we are looking out over the Atlantic Ocean which is to the east. The sun always rises in the east. Blake, I liked your creative response using what you know about peninsulas.
The water Koleton is seeing seeing pool in my photos comes from a couple sources: primarily from the tides. All of what you see is on the coast, high tide comes every 12 hours. Snow is melting and it continues to rain which contributes to the rest of what he is seeing. It is very wet here K-Man!
Mrs. Jensen had a really interesting question that I've been promised by our scientists that I'll much more to share about but here's a teaser: there are no extinct volcanoes here BUT Nova Scotia was once connected geologically to Africa! More on that later...
Tan-Man, you were right for today at least about mammals vs. sea birds. We saw a lot of sea gulls, a bald eagle (make sure Mom knows that I was a part-time "bird-ologist") and we think maybe an osprey. Look at my new post tomorrow morning and you'll see what we saw the MOST of...you'll think it's great!
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