[LTER-education] Cross-Site Activity - nascent development
O'Connell, Kari Elizabeth Bisbee
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Thu Oct 1 12:07:43 PDT 2020
Hi everyone,
What about a cross-site Data Nugget or two? With themes of precipitation? I’d be game to be involved with that.
For Andrews, snow vs. rain (so temperature interaction) is a big thing.
Kar
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Hi Jill -
Afraid that MCR is not going to be much help here. We do collect precipitation (and other standard met) data, but everything else we do is underwater in a marine environment. We are beginning to look at nutrient inputs from the various watersheds around the island and have developed some heat maps of nitrogen concentrations in the lagoons that we hope to match up with coral bleaching surveys, but that work is still in the early days. Good luck with the project. Perhaps the more marine sites could put their heads together and come up with a similar effort.
Best,
Andrew (MCR)
On 10/1/2020 8:45:33 AM, Jill Haukos <konzaed at ksu.edu<mailto:konzaed at ksu.edu>> wrote:
Great - momentum is building...
Here's what I'm hearing - we're looking at water and the connection life at each of our sites. Specifically - the difference between
* abundance - vs. - drought
* elevation
* temperature - melting
* salt level
I plan to put a series of standardized questions concerning water - I envision combining your answers into a common activity. It would be great to have a clear and easy data set that reflects water at each site too. Clear and easy meaning that it could be read and interpreted by children. This is obviously an evolving activity but we have something started...
Participation is not required - completely optional if you have the time and inclination.
Warmly,
Jill
Jill F. Haukos
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Subject: Re: [LTER-education] Cross-Site Activity - nascent development
To chime in with another coastal site:
I would say that VCR is combo between Katie's and Alex's responses. Presence of freshwater (more so than precipitation) x elevation shape the ecosystems along the Virginia Coast. For us, the elevation is more about escape from sea level/salt stress.
That said, we do collect precip data.
Best,
Cora
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Just also wanted to say that at Niwot elevation is a key driver of species composition… it interacts with precipitation to determine which habitats we see where. If we could add elevation along with latitude and longitude, Niwot would certainly be plottable on your graph. <http://www.virginia.edu/>
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Great idea Jill! Can you share the graph from your original email (I can’t find the one with the attachment!)?<http://www.virginia.edu/>
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Rain/drought, irrigation, ground water are all studied as part of the KBS LTER! Julie can speak more intelligently to the science than I can but we definitely have lots of water and precipitation related data! our plots have different biomass too from corn/soy/wheat rotation, switchgrass, ‘old field’, restored prairie so there is also a story about precipitation and its impacts on different plants.<http://www.virginia.edu/>
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I found this climate change and precipitation lesson from 2012 in our files: http://kbsgk12project.kbs.msu.edu/blog/2012/11/07/the-new-farmers-almanac-agriculture-and-climate-change/ <http://www.virginia.edu/>
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Thanks for working on this Jill! It would definitely be something that we could share with teachers and likely build a whole workshop around!<http://www.virginia.edu/>
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We do not currently do work with precipitation outreach directly through Harvard Forest Schoolyard LTER, although it impacts tree health/growth which is at the heart of much of our outreach. <http://www.virginia.edu/>
We do have a weather station here that tracks precipitation so I’ll be interested to see what ideas you come up with for cross site work, and how much time is required to participate.<http://www.virginia.edu/>
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Thanks for reaching out to the network and trying to come up with a cross site activity.<http://www.virginia.edu/>
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Precipitation, stream flow, and reservoir height are the primary datasets in our Luquillo Data Jam. The students have produced a variety of instantiations of your graph. Here is a link to the Dec 2019 posters that the students produced: http://criticalzone.org/luquillo/news/story/the-luquillo-lter-czo-schoolyard-data-jam-2019/ <http://www.virginia.edu/>
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They are in Spanish, but math is a universal language so you may be able to figure out which ones are rainfall.<http://www.virginia.edu/>
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On Sep 30, 2020, at 3:02 PM, Jill Haukos <konzaed at ksu.edu> wrote:<http://www.virginia.edu/>
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I've been thinking about the development of our long-awaited cross-site activity. So, what connects each of our sites - what do we ALL have in common that can be quantified, evaluated, and shared? The answer = precipitation<http://www.virginia.edu/>
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I'm beginning to put an activity together about the effects of water on the tallgrass prairie. Other than sunshine, oxygen and CO2, there is NOTHING more important to the growth and health of the tallgrass prairie than water. That's the crux of my story. If we had more water, there'd be a forest here rather than a prairie. If we had less water, we'd be a short-grass prairie. One can look at the average amount of precipitation along with the latitude and longitude and guess what kind of plants grow in that area. <http://www.virginia.edu/>
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The question is: can we do that with your site? Can we look at the latitude, longitude and average precipitation and guess what would and would not grow there? <http://www.virginia.edu/>
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How does precipitation affect aquatic sites? Can we include aquatic sites in this activity? <http://www.virginia.edu/>
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I'm attaching a graph of precipitation at Konza Prairie. The total height of each column reflects total annual precip. Each color represents the amount of precip per month. The monthly precip is important because it affects the height of the tallgrass species. When we get lots of rain in July (navy blue) we get really tall grass. When July's precip is low, the grass is shorter. <http://www.virginia.edu/>
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Would you be able to make a graph like mine? Would I be able to tell a story about your site just by looking at your precipitation graph? <http://www.virginia.edu/>
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These are my first steps for a cross-site activity. Tell me your thoughts.<http://www.virginia.edu/>
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