MOSS Day 2

Greetings Families,


We made it down to McCall and are really getting down to business!  Yesterday we filled the afternoon with CREW activities, team building initiatives, and goal setting.  We are really focusing this trip around effective ways to communicate.  In fact, we came up with a crew learning target that we are striving to accomplish by Friday: I can effectively communicate with my crew mates both academically and personally. 

A close up of our scale fire experiments.

Today we woke up to a cold snowy day.  We spent the morning working through a fire behavior workshop. This was a really cool lesson that incorporated previous work with the scientific process and fire behavior.  After finishing our scale fire experiments we set up and sampled a practice plot.  This was a big challenge as it was snowing and sleeting quite heavily.  After completing the activity we had a really nice reflection session on our successes, failures, and strategies for improvement. 



 

Tobias and Liam running their first scale test.

Kaylee and Jonna collecting data.

Rhett, Anna, and Lauren running their first scale test.

Noah, Hannah, and Sophia testing the effect of topography and ground fuels on fire behavior.

Ashton, Taylor, and Sarah setting up a test.

Getting ready to set up full scale research plots.

Tobias reviewing data.

Kaylee and Jonna conducting a fuel survey

Lena scribing data.

Noah, Sophia, and Hannah collecting DBH data.

Cathan, Tony, and Lena wrapping up their plot.