September 3rd 2015
We had our second field trip of the semester at Cliff Stephens Park located in Clearwater off of Drew St. It was 90 degrees outside and sunny with minimal clouds, so yes as you can guess it was hot as ever. Luckily a lot of it was in the shade. We had 4 stations in which using various field tools to do different activities we had gone over in class on the previous Tuesday.
The park consisted of a a trail, many trees, frisbee golf, and a lake in which we even saw someone swimming in!
Station 1.
This station was at the lake. We got a sample of the water and tested it for a variety of things.
To get the water we tossed a net into the water in order to get a water sample.
Temperature: 91 degrees
Turbidity: (measurement of particles in the water) 16.5
Illumination: 5.04
Ph: 8
Station 2.
Consisted of 2 tests, one being the "open area test" and "quadrant test"
Open area test:
0 meters- grass
10 meters- grass/cloves
20 meters- cloves
30 meters- grass
Quadrant test:
0m- 10% leaves / 4% spanish moss / 86% grass
10m- 70% grass / 30% cloves
20m- 5% grass / 15% cloves / 80% weeds
30m- 10% grass / 4% cloves / 80% weeds
Soil = gritty + smooth = loam
Station 3.
Density of Canopy: We used a densitometer which is a circular instrument in which you look up into and if you see more trees it is positive and if not it is negative.
10m- neg
20m- pos
30m- pos
40m- pos
50m- pos
and continued to be positive for the remainder of the test. Meaning a lot of trees were above us.
Soil = gritty + smooth = loam
(remained in ball and not to dry)
Cruze-all:
5- 8 trees
10- 4 trees
20- 1 tree
40- 3 trees
Station 4.
We repeated the density test:
Getting positives at 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8
Getting negatives at 3, 7, 9, and 10
Conducted the height of the tallest tree: (A+B) x DISTANCE
Getting 19.5 feet
We also looked at the diameter of a various amount of trees.
Cliff Stephens Park was a fun field trip and differed from the first one a lot due to the actives and things we looked at! I had a lot of fun.
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