Matthew’s senior project: May 11: New England Weather is a Doozy.

When I woke up today, it was 34 degrees Fahrenheit. Brrrrrrrrr. Yet 6 hours later, it was 75 and buggy. I suppose that's what New England does best. While I planned to get a super early start today, I didn't. I stayed nice and cozy in my sleeping bag until it had warmed up to a sensible 45 degrees at about 8:00 AM. After a breakfast of jerky and yesterday's Jakes, I hiked off to polish up more reference flagging behind mud pond. A12, A13, A14, A15, B12, B13, B14, B15, C15, D13, D14, and D15 to be specific. Then I returned to the shelter, had a lovely Suprise encounter with Drew (out on a run, I'm not in trouble), and hiked in for lunch.

After a lazy lunch, I met back up with the dream team Laura and Isabel to take data. We drove up Meadowlark, to save an hour of hiking, and managed to do not one, not two, not three, but four sites of data. We saw some crazy regeneration, and a few early successional and a few wet loving species. Then we saw what has to be largest tree in the forest on our way back down.
Then, this night I threw together google slides presentation that I'll give at assembly tomorrow. A little treat of data is after the pictures. Oh, and a correction: I stated that the grid covers 3.7 acres when it in fact covers 370 acres. I forgot to square my 100. Also, as of today, I have worked about 20.3 hours total, or 27% of the required hours. I think I'm going to go over.