Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 08/17/2008 - 08:00
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Arctic Tundra Dynamics 08

How does the gas chamber record information such as weather, wind, temperature, water depth, permafrost thaw and more? Also how will your results help the environment?

 

 

 

 

                                                                               Daniel Mayer

                                                                                Grade 6

                                                                                Saint Mark      

Sun, 08/17/2008 - 08:19

Elizabeth Eubanks

Great question Daniel,
I guess I should explain that better in my journals. It does NOT. Paulo has many different tools for all of those things.
Paulo built a weather station -central to all plots and also had little weather readers on each plots.
 

 
 

 
Jose actually measured permafrost thaw and water table with a ruler and some guidlines to keep his measurements accurate. I will upload other photos of him doing this to my library soon.

 
Paulo's questions go hand in hand with global warming. - How does water and temperature affect Carbon.
Carbon is one of the main global components when determining Global Warming.
His study will give us a few more answers about how carbon reacts when temperatures are warmer (which they are getting warmer) and also how water affects what carbon does. This information will let us know how the environment may react or at least allow us to make predictions about our futures.
 
Think about millions of years ago when things died, this is how we get our fossils fuels right? - Things die and are stored in the earth for millions and millions of years, then turn to coal and oil.
All things - living things are made of a lot of Carbon.
So Paulo goes all the way to the Arctic to look at the specific Carbon there, because if the permafrost continues to keep melting it will release that Carbon in the form of gases - Carbon Dioxide or Methane. We always have carbon moving all over earth, but this will be "extra" carbon if the permafrost continues to melt.
 
Make sense?
Thanks!
From the Tropics,
Mrs. Eubanks