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Governor's Institute SAT Page

(Science and Technology)

Kimberly Sonderland

I attend Oxbow High School in Bradford Vermont and will be graduating in 2001!

The Governor's Institute program is being held at UVM. We stay in the campus dorms and take field trips to local ponds and lakes.

June 27 1999: The day of our arrival (and my brother's birthday). It was today that we got into our dorms, viewed all the sites, and began our web pages. The site I will be working on during the week is Indian Brook.

---Indian Brook---

 

Indian Brook is in fact a reservoir. The land was flooded and a reservoir was created. It is possible to swim in the lake but because the site was rocky and steep the water drops off only a few steps off the shore. The original brook still remains and flows into the lake.

It is a beautiful site with a diverse collection of trees, flowers, and other wildlife. Our daily activities usually include a two mile hike along the lake where we observe and discuss the area and what we see. We have learned a great deal about the history of the area. Along the trail there are many signs of human impact as well as natural occurances.

 

 

A peaceful canoe ride on Indian Brook...

FLOODED!!!

June 29, 1999

Shelburne Farms

Here we enjoyed an evening of swimming, relaxing, eating pizza, talking, and looking across Lake Champlain at a beautiful sunset.

 

July 1, 1999

Today we visited a lab on the UVM campus.

Here we got to take materials we collected and view them under a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). Some of the materials were viewed included lichen, bark, pond scum, quartzite, leeches, and beetles.

Scanning Electron Microscope

Here are some examples of the creatures we got to look at up close.

Leech: Yes this is the end they suck with! Magnification: 50x

Eye of Beetle: Imagine what it would be like to see with these! Magnification: 150x

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Quartzite

Magnification: 1000x

 

 

 

 

 

July 1,1999 (Morning)

*A voyage to Lake Champlain on the Melosire.

 

The Melosire is a research vessel we took out on lake champlain. It carries many tools which can show the dept of the water below, objects on the lake floor, and the boats path of travel.

While on the boat we collected samples of mud and slit on the lake bottom. We used special nets and instruments and we able to retreve a sampling of phytoplakton and zooplankton. There were two microscopes on board which we used to view our plankton. We were able to look at a various assortment of snails, algae, slit, leeches, worms, zebra muscles, and many other wild creatures.