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Ten Days in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
After spending a day in Juneau gearing up, we flew over to Gustavus, Alaska and then got a ride to Bartlett Cove in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve. We then rented kayaks and headed into Glacier Bay. Shortly after … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Alaska Day 5 – Juneau
There are two legs to the project this summer. Lilly and Fred are headed back to the Wooster Tree Ring Lab with samples from Kake and Jacob and Jack have arrived. Jack, Jacob, Nick and I will now travel to … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Alaska Day 4
A view from the porch of the Forest Service cabin out into the Sound. Day 4 started in the intertidal zone at low tide. Identification of the various intertebrates included the limpet above. This large cockle was squirting water through … Continu… Continue reading
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Alaska Day 3
Coring the furthest north stand of Western Redcedar (Thuja plicata). Celebrating another successful core extraction by Siah. Banana slug on the forest floor. Mounting the redcedar cores at the Forest Service cabin. Also examining cores taken in previou… Continue reading
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Alaska_2022
We arrived in Juneau on Sunday flying from Cleveland to Juneau. The goal of the trip is to work with the AYLS youth group of Kake Alaska (formerly known as TRAYLS) coring trees with both the Wooster group of faculty, … Continue reading → Continue reading
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Remote Summer Sampling in Southeast, Alaska
We had the good fortune to work (remotely) with four TRAYLS groups in Alaska. The TRAYLS (Training Rural Alaskan Youth Leaders & Students) Groups from Southeast Alaska teamed up with Earth Scientist students Ricky Papay (’22), Wenshuo Zhao (‘23)… Continue reading
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Wolf Lake and the Surrounding Landscape, Glacier Bay, Alaska
Members of the Wooster Tree Ring Lab had a great opportunity to travel to a seldom-visited part of Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve – a transect from Wolf Lake to Burroughs Glacier. We were there because there is 2500 … Continue readi… Continue reading
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Apple Creek & Trout Unlimited
Guest bloggers: Chamari Abercrombie and Ellen Yoon. Good evening Wooster community, today the AMRE Water Team visited Apple Creek with Trout Unlimited to analyze the water quality of Apple Creek. To do so, we looked at macroinvertebrates and collected … Continue reading
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Wooster Memorial Park – Now Part of the Old Growth Forest Network
On 20 April 2021 Wooster Memorial Park became part of the Old Growth Forest Network. The founder and director, Joan Maloof, visited Wooster Memorial Park forest to officially induct the park into the Network. The Wooster Tree Ring Lab cored … Co… Continue reading
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A Day on the Lake
Another day on Browns Lake collecting and downloading data. Nick Wiesenberg (Geological Technician) and I had a quiet morning on a slushy/almost ice covered lake. Nick was trolling for diatoms and the like for sampling productivity in the lake. He R… Continue reading
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