Yesterday we continued our search for beaver lodges and had quite the exciting day! The 11 of us students split into 4 groups, each covering a square mile of the park. Out of the 11 of us, 6 put a foot or a leg through the ice. One guy went through twice: The first time to his thigh, the second time, shin deep in bog mud. Good times. 
Anyway, I brought my camera on that trip, so here are a few images from that.
Today was our first day to work on individual projects. I’m working on an ice-coring project with two other girls, hoping to study the effects of global climate change on ice depth, snow depth, temperature, ice in and ice out times, etc. and how that all affects the surrounding ecosystems. It’s quite the project. Today, we drilled 6 holes in one lake to test whether there is a correlation between ice thickness and water depth. Our data was pretty inconclusive, but we think there’s more of a correlation between snow depth and ice thickness. More later on all this. I took my camera today too, though, so I have some images for you. We had good hoar frost on the trees today, so picture opportunities were great. Enjoy!
