In July and August of
2012, the Baltimore Ecosystem Study sent two Baltimore area science teachers to
the Toolik Field Station in Toolik Lake, Alaska [ http://toolik.alaska.edu/index.php
] to participate in research funded by the NSF Arctic LTER.
The
teachers were part of a volunteer research effort to identify and catalog
species of vegetation in the Tundra. The
teachers spent up to 10 hours a day for six straight days doing field
and lab work. Work included harvesting plants from research plots,
breaking down the plants and sorting by species, separating out different parts
of each plant, and bagging and labeling.
A special thanks goes to
John Moore of Colorado State University for helping to organize
and sponsor the trip for our teachers.
Please click below links to see slideshow and
read about the teachers' experience at Toolik Lake.
Contributed by: Bess Caplan, BES Ecology Education Program Leader
