A final phenology post! It was a cold week since the last time I visited my phenology spot. It was about 50 degrees Fahrenheit and cloudy when I visited today. Maybe because it was a cold week, the phenological changes weren’t that extreme. The flowers from before were gone, there was more grass, patches of […]

This entry was posted on Saturday, May 4th, 2019 at 1:54 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.

My phenology spot looks quite different than it did before spring break (and what it most likely looked like a month ago)– no snow! It was just about 55 degrees Fahrenheit and mostly sunny when I visited. The first thing that I noticed when I got to my phenology site, besides the fact that it […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 25th, 2019 at 4:14 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.

Over spring break I spent some time on Egmont Key State Park off the coast of St. Petersburg, Florida. My surroundings were quite different than that of my phenology site’s in Burlington. First of all, it was 77 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny. Egmont Key is also a state park and a national wildlife refuge, designations […]

This entry was posted on Friday, March 15th, 2019 at 3:11 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.

I visited my phenology site today! It was about 18 degrees Fahrenheit and cloudy. Right before I went it snowed a bit, but it wasn’t snowing by 4 PM. The first new thing that I noticed when I got to my phenology site (and on the way there) was that the snow cover had decreased […]

This entry was posted on Thursday, March 7th, 2019 at 5:35 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.

Back in Burlington! Second semester and my second phenology spot. I decided to change my phenology spot from last semester partly because I wanted somewhere closer to campus and because I wanted to spend time in another part of Burlington. Now, my spot is in the Redstone Quarry, a place that I often ran by […]

This entry was posted on Monday, February 4th, 2019 at 3:17 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.

I visited my phenology site for the first time with snow and the for the last time this semester this week. Although there was not a crazy amount of snow, there was enough to transform the look of my phenology site. The light dusting of snow, the cedar trees, and the wind from the lake […]

This entry was posted on Friday, December 7th, 2018 at 1:39 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.

I went back home for Thanksgiving break. Home is Middleton, Wisconsin, right outside of Madison. Being in Wisconsin, it seems right to write in Aldo Leopold’s style, I mean the street that runs perpendicular to my own is named Aldo Leopold Way. I’ve become so familiar with the area that my temporary phenology spot is […]

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 25th, 2018 at 8:49 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.

My visit to my phenology spot was fairly sunny, especially for November! Although there was still wind coming off the lake, it did not feel too cold. The temperature lingered in the high 30s and low 40s (Fahrenheit). At my site, there was less color than last time. The ground had more down leaves, which […]

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 4th, 2018 at 7:12 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.

I visited my phenology spot again on Saturday, October 20. I visited just past noon, and it was 59 degrees Fahrenheit and a bit windy and cloudy. It was not as green as it was last time I visited. Even though my site has many northern white cedar trees, the white oak tree leaves were […]

This entry was posted on Monday, October 22nd, 2018 at 1:20 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.

Today I went to my phenology spot to do my first blog post! It was parent’s weekend, so I went out to my site with my mom. It was a good morning hike. To get to my phenology spot from campus I make my way down to the waterfront via Main Street or College Street. […]

This entry was posted on Monday, October 8th, 2018 at 6:33 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.