This pair of Landsat images shows the rapid loss of the fabled glaciers and snowfields crowning Mt. Kilimanjaro between 1993 and 2000. With the snow and ice nearly gone, the volcano's crater is...
In this exercise, students design and perform an experiment that helps them investigate the effects of habitat complexity on biodiversity in aquatic communities. In particular, students will glue...
In this exercise students gain hands on experience by conducting observations in the field. In groups students identify and record all the plants found in a sample plot. Using pooled data from the...
This picture was taken in 2005 along the Turure River before the mountain road had been widened. It contains one of the researchers for scale. The researcher is up to his knees in the pool, less...
Picture of Pool 17 taken in 2009 along the Turure River after the mountain road had been widened. To get to the rocks along the far bank in 2005, one had to wade in waist-deep (about 3 feet) water. ...
Picture of Pool 28 taken in 2006 along the Turure River before the mountain road had been widened. One can faintly see a rocky bottom to the stream. Pool 28 is downstream of Pool 17. The bottom of...
Picture of Pool 28 taken in 2009 along the Turure River after the mountain road had been widened. Water flows from the left to the right side of the photograph. The stream bottom is covered in...
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