I have had the same Phenology Site since the first semester in NR-001. I have enjoyed watching my site transition from bright summer days into the fiery foliage of fall through a snowy winter into a budding spring. As the seasons changed so did the river that runs through my site. The Winooski was at …
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BOOM!!! NEW BLOG POST
What up, TREE VISIT #3!!!!!!!!! 🙂 Despite the blatant excitement that my blog title conveys, this site visit was a little bit underwhelming. I was excited to see if my tree had started to bud yet, but much to my dismay, it has yet to show signs of bud break. Today was much warmer than …
Revisiting My Tree: Spring Phenology #2
Things are starting to feel a lot like springtime. The air is full of the smell of the earth waking up, the smell of fresh dirt, and the warm wind is refreshing after the dark days of winter. There is still snow in the occasional spot here and there, but most of Burlington has shed …
Tree identification #1: Finding my tree :)
I originally didn’t have a plan for what tree I was going to search out among the many on my site, but after spotting a paper birch down by the water I figured I would use it for identification. I’ve always like Paper Birch. When I was younger I would harvest the peeling sheets of …
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Tracking stuff (like a boss?)
What up guys, went tracking the other day, super fun stuff. I remember Mike saying that tracking was a therapeutic practice and I couldn’t agree more, I had such a fun time in the woods stomping around and enjoying a cool new area. I drove up to Derway Island, the northernmost tip of Burlington at …
guess who back?
If you guessed Slim Shady, then you would be wrong… Answer: PHENOLOGY BLOG IS BACK!!! Returning to my site was a completely different experience as this time the landscape was shrouded in a fresh layer of snow! The snow changed the nature of my site in a variety of ways. Initially, the first thing I …
Hints of Winter and Rising Water
As I approached my site today I could hear an ambient rumbling. I thought that I was hearing noises from the road or the nearby airport, but as I got closer to the river I could tell I was wrong. The river was rushing and the dam upriver of my site had water cascading loudly …
Phenology Site Comparison :)
The site that I selected while home for thanksgiving break follows an old logging road above a class 1 stream that feeds into the headwaters of the Lamoille river. This site is a mix of early and mid-succession forest and sits at an elevation of 1400-1450ft abs. In the figure below the measured line represents …
A Whole Bunch of Questions
Today when I visited my phenology spot I sat and observed, I wrote a whole bunch of questions. The more I observed about my site, the more things I realized I didn’t have answers for. As I sat I closed my eyes and listened to the river bubble past, opening them I looked upriver and …
First Blog!
My site: Salmon Hole – Winooski, VT I saw this site a few weeks ago. I was biking from Burlington to Winooski along the bike path and off to my left I saw a dirt path gong down the slope towards the river. I figured it would be a good spot to set up a …