by Gabriela Carr | Jun 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
First soil sampling site! Soil corer and cooler containing sampling bags (plus our plant ID books) A beautiful site (although we got rained out the first day of sampling.) Right between the beach and Lake Shore Drive, so I suppose only a beautiful view on one side,...
by Gabriela Carr | Jun 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
We went on a field trip today with the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) students from the Chicago Botanic Garden and the Morton Arboretum! We went to the beautiful Illinois Beach State Park, where we learned about the restoration of Cirsium pitcheri...
by Gabriela Carr | Jun 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
Our first sampling site! We laid two 50 m transects (lines marked with a large measuring tape) across the site, which we marked with GPS coordinates, and we looked at a plot every 5 meters along the transect. We picked a plot using a dice to randomly select whether it...
by Gabriela Carr | Jun 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
Today was the first official day of research, so we went out to the Botanic Garden’s Native Plants garden, where Meghan, Alyssa, and Taran taught Bob and me how to identify a bunch of different species. Here are two: Baptisia alba (Wild White Indigo). This...
