Erin Bucchin's Phenology Blog

I visited Centennial Woods during my second week at UVM. Since then, the Woods has become a place of familiarity, learning, excitement, sadness, and calm. As I walked to my place this past week I took note of the green buds and leaves and remembered what they looked like just eight months ago. I always […]

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I think it’s safe to say Spring has officially sprung! With warmer temperatures, longer days, more frequent sun buds and grasses are starting to pop up all over campus. This being said, the UVM lawn is not the only place where there is new growth. As I walked down the muddy path to my footbridge […]

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Being home for the week brought views of mountains, blue skies, avalanches, feet of snow, and warmth. Though my instinct was to run to Red Mountain, the site of my last home phenology blog, I chose to snowshoe in a new area and immerse myself in a new environment. Sunlight Ski Resort, the ski mountain […]

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I’ve been to Centennial Woods many times now, and seen the numerous kinds of trees all mixed together into one beautiful mass. Due to the large presence of a mix of Beech, and Yellow Birch within and around many Eastern Hemlocks would lead me to classify Centennial Woods’ natural community as a Hemlock-Northern Hardwood forest. […]

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It’s been a while since I last visited my site down in Centennial Woods, but this afternoon I gave it a visit. It snowed today after a week of brutal cold, so I was able to note some changes from the early thaw conditions of my last visit. I was able to note some buds […]

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I tried to document how the world moves without much of my own movement overshadowing it in an attempt to represent the idea of biodiversity not being connected or dependent on humans and their technology. Silently listening to the sounds of the wind, watching the sunset through the pines, and seeing the ice melt with […]

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Things have changed: the year, the season, and my Phenology Site. I have moved my documentation and observation to a plot within Centennial Woods near and around the first footbridge. Walking almost to Rockpoint was proving difficult with the weather and the elements, and I was ready for a change of scenery. When I first […]

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After watching some Burlington Geographic videos on the history of the Water Front area, I was able to ascertain a few things about the history of my site in particular. On the other side of the bike path, when you first enter the trail to my site, there is a large Cedar Bluff, which was used […]

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