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Ecological Succession Study

January 27, 2019

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Sophomore biology students in Mr. Watt's class are presently conducting a study to see how quickly life appears in samples of "dead" plant matter that they collected outside last week.  The plant matter was submerged in a jar of sterilized lake water from Lake Thunderhead.  So far, microscopic life has only been discovered in one of the twelve samples collected.  Students have studied the effects of volcanic eruptions on ecosystems, and have considered the explosion of Mt. St. Helens in Washington back in May of 1980 as well as the numerous eruptions on the Indian Ocean island of Krakatoa as recently as last month.