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The PIE LTER is collaborating with the Massachusetts Audubon Society and the Governor Dummer Academy to provide local middle and high school students with opportunities to perform hands-on scientific research throughout the various ecosystems in the Plum Island Sound area.

Massachusetts Audubon Saltmarsh Science Project web site describing various activities that students, teachers and scientists are engaged in. Activities include: monitoring the growth of Phragmites in salt marshes, studying the affect of salinity on the growth of salt marsh vegetation, assessing tidal restrictions and sampling fish above and below tidal restrictions to determine the impact of these restrictions on fish.
Massachusetts Audubon Saltmarsh Science Project

Students in the News:
Science lessons head out to the local environment by Sally Kuhn (Daily News)

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Governor Dummer Academy (GDA) teachers and students have been participating with researchers investigating populations of mussels and snails in tidal creeks around the Rowley River.

	GDA Rowley River Mussel and Snail Presence:
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Governor Dummer Academy (GDA) teachers and students have taken several vegetation surveys near the Middle Road bridge, on the Parker River. Survey Transects extend away from the river edge. Presence/absence is recorded for one meter intervals.