Hitchiti Experimental Forest

After arriving just a little late from the rest of the group. Nate and I took a chance, chose a route, and hoped to catch up. it was only about 7 minutes until we saw the rest of the group and was relieved to have found them. The trail was pretty tight and narrow, definitely not a bike trail. It did not look like many people go down this trail either. We came across many differnt plant species and also got to see Dr. Rood attempt to be Tarzen and swing from a vine. When we arrived at the river, it was really cool to see the rock formations coming in and out of the river.i enjoyed the hike because the weather was perfect out. everyone had to hug a tree, i chose a tiny one, while some tried to out do everyone and pick the largest one in the area. apparently i learned that they burn some of the tress down every two years to help control the forest. i found that to be very interesting.   

Mega Floods

Oh no, this ain't good.For this lab we watched a movie on Mega Floods and how a glacier was the sole creator of making the scabs lands. When this large glacier melted, it burst because of pressure and stormed the Wyoming terrain and created some spectacular hills and pot holes that created some predicament on how the terrain was actually made. what i did like about the movie that i found interesting was how the man at the end has a job where he goes to the glacier and does tests on it to check if it is moving.    

Ocumulgee National Park

I think the coolest part of our little trail walk was going inside the Indian mound. I also liked going on top of one of the mounds because you got a great view of the landscape. The tour guide was very educational, it was interesting to find out that this site was a very important trading ground for the tribes who lived there back in the day. 

Blood Sugar Lab

Negative Feedback

Negative Feedback

Negative feedback occurs when the output of a system acts to oppose changes to the input of the system, with the result that the changes are attenuated. If the overall feedback of the system is negative, then the system will tend to be stable.

Macon Roots/Soil Lab

The Community Garden behind Centenary Methodist Church

In lab this week our class a community garden behind Centenary Methodist Church. This specific garden was built by a company called Macon Roots. (Macon Roots) This is a company that was started by a man named Mark Vanderhoek. This company has set up community gardens in urban areas all over Macon. These gardens help people to get more involved with growing their own food. These gardens face a lot of challenges when getting started. When starting these gardens the planters and planners have to deal with contaminated soil and come up with ways to either clean up the soil or use raised boxes to get around the contaminates. These contaminants can include things like lead from cars and old houses. In our lab we used several different tools to examine the soil in the area. We used a split spoon corer and dug a hole to look at the different soil layers. We also used sieves and a dichotomous key to determine what type of soil was in the area.

Soil Types Dichotomous Key

Soil Types

1. Gelisols
2. Histosols
3. Spodosols
4. Andisols
5. Oxisols
6. Vertisol
7. Aridisols
8. Ultisols
9. Mollisols
10. Alfisols
11. Inceptisols
12. Entisols