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)
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.
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.