Final Foxcroft Farm BioCube Journal 4/25

Vernal Pool Ecosystem Week 4, Thursday Lab Section

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Today was our last bio lab working on the vernal pond BioCube. We spent the majority of our time going through the materials we brought back from our excavated cube last week. We did not find any new species, but we did get better identification of many species. One surprising thing that we found was that the spiders we captured last week were still alive this week (and scared us a few times when opening their jars). Additionally, the water strider we got also was still alive and very feisty this week. Sifting through the mud we did not find any new species, mostly unidentifiable roots of grasses. We took a lot of time getting better pictures of species and looking through some literature.

I spent the majority of lab today working on developing our BioCube video as I was the cameraman and editor for our film. Due to that, I did not upload any new observations this week. Overall, I enjoyed this experience. It was a bit too cold a bit too early in the morning some days on the farm, but getting to do field work was a valuable experience and the project as a whole was fun.

- By Kevin