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Spring 2015 Vernal Pool Updates from the Field

Are You on the Map? 

New Interactive Field Site Maps are available on Google Maps 

Field Site Locations For All Schoolyard Projects

Thanks to Greta Vanscoy,our field site maps now include new schools who have submitted data for  the first time this school year.  We have also added distinctive icons for each project on our individual project maps below. To use the interactive features on these maps, please see  links and notes following the figures below. 

Clickable Interactive Maps are available on Google Maps at: 

Schoolyard Interactive Maps

After linking to Google Maps,  click on an icon to find links to the name and address of the school along with the Schoolyard Eco. data for that site. 

Note that to use the Google Map for field sites, you will need to click on the box to the left of the Project Title or  The "All Participating Schools" category in order for the site icons to appear on the base map. Similarly, click any checked boxes if you want to clear the icons in order to view an alternative field project map. 

Link to Schoolyard Google Maps

Congrats to those schools who have made the map!  

Some schools have begun projects but have not been able to submit data yet.  Once data is submitted for additional schools, we will add those schools to our maps.  Please report any inaccuracies  or updates to Pamela Snow.

  

Show us  your Snow!  

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