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Schoolyard Field Sites in Winter

J.R. Briggs Elementary School, Ashburnham, MA

Blazing a trail to our field site!

Submitted by Kate Bennett

 Views from the North in New Hampshire

Hemlock Field Site

Exeter High School, Exeter New Hampshire

Submitted by Debra Kimball

Buds/Leaves Field Site

Hanover High School, Hanover New Hampshire

Submitted by Maryann Postans

From the East

Submitted by Janet Gordon

Views from Drumlin Farm Vernal Pool Field Sites

Concord Carlisle H.S. Eco-monitoring in Snow

Deer Rub? at Bathtub Pond

       

Eco Monitors Checking Ice Pond                 Rabbit Sign at Shopping Cart Vernal Pool 

Photos by Sally Farrow, Drumlin Farm

Central Massachusetts

Trinity Catholic Academy, Southbridge, Ma.  

I think we have enough snow!!!     Submitted by Colleen Casey

F.W Parker Charter School,Devens Ma.

From the West

Trudging out into the Woods                                                           Snow Depth?                                              

Observing the field site in Winter

Hawlemont Elementary School, Charlemont, Ma.

Submitted by Stephen Bechtel

 

Our after school vernal pool group finally made it up to the pool on March 6th ( all kitted out with snowshoes) We drilled down through 50 cm of frozen ice/snow to find water (very smelly but water none the less). 

Submitted by Judy Gibson

Holyoke Catholic High School

Swallowed by Snow 

This is one of my study trees. I wonder when it will be free!

Lise Letellier

Did you know we can take scientific measurements  with something we call a Snow Pillow?

 

The snow pillow, as pictured at left, measures the water content (snow water equivalent) of the snowpack during the winter months. Data for the current month are posted on the harvard Forest website at: archived snow pillow data .

See real time graphs such as the one at right for graphs of selected variables. - real-time-data-graphs

Views from the Field

Autumn 2014

Our Changing Forests Schoolyard Field Research- F.W. Parker Charter School, Devens, Ma. 

Measuring Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) of dead Tree 

Measuring DBH of live standing tree

Using DBH stick to indicate the correct height at which to measure DBH with diameter tape

Students at F.W. Parker Charter School began their first season of the Our Changing Forests project led by their teachers, Judy Gibson and Mitt Wanzer.   Judy Gibson, joined the schoolyard program years ago when she started bringing students outside to measure water depths, circumference, and temperature data as part of the Water in the Landscape: Vernal Pool study led by ecologist, Betsy Colburn. This year, Mitt Wanzer joined Judy Gibson in beginning a new study identifying, labelling and measuring diameters of trees within a 10 x 10 meter plot in their schoolyard.  Students record data for both projects onto paper data sheets they bring with them into the field on their clipboards. Teachers report that data to Harvard Forest on an online database.  Parker school data for this season has not yet been reported, but you can find other datasets from throughout Massachusetts for both studies at:  http://harvardforestonlinedatabase.

What does your Schoolyard field site look like?  

Send photos with permission to post on our blog and/or webpages to Pamela Snow, Schoolyard Coordinator at:  psnow@fas.harvard.edu