Earth Day!!!

This is from our adventure in the Hitchiti Forest. We we hugging trees because today is Earth Day!! Happy Earth Day everyone!!

http://www.earthday.org/
 This is a link to the Earth Day network which shows us some activities that we can do to help the earth!

What can I find on Mercer's Campus?

For lab, we had to walk around campus and find 5 different plants, trees, animals and areas where erosion could be a problem. Finding the trees and plants were very easy. It was the animals that was probably the hardest because the only animal that we knew for sure was always on campus was the squirrels. There are probably more than one species of birds, but to photograph them and identify which ones were different was going to be a hard thing to do. Tia posted some of the pictures that we took because Darius and I couldn't download them from our phones. This lab was fun because we got to explore campus and we were able to do it on our own time and with whoever we wanted which was nice.

Oclulgee National Monument

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkV-of_eN2w

This week for lab we went to Ocmulgee National Monument. It is places like these when I realize how beautiful the south is. Coming from a place where trees are sparse, it was refreshing to go on top of that monument and see trees all around me. It was an amazing experience that I won't forget. I think that I could have stayed up there all day and just looked out at the trees and feel the breeze. I posted this link because this is what came to my mind when I was there.

The Burgess Shale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1DPzY6o6hQ&feature=related

This is a link to an animation on the Burgess Shale. The Burgess Shale is located in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The fossils of several animals were found in this mountain. The idea that baffles the minds of scientists is that these animals appear to have just popped up overnight. The mystery of the Burgess Shale has still not been solved.