Welcome to a description of our river study project that is part of "the Schoolyard Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) program associated with the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MCM) in Antarctica. As proposed in the National Science Education Standards by the National Academy of Sciences, the goal of this project is to make the scientific process more real for students by exposing them to hands-on methods and real environmental data collected by them, other students like them, and professional scientists."

Our site is sponsored by Dr. W. Berry Lyons, Director of the Byrd Polar Research Center
and Principal Investigator for the MCM LTER.
see:
www-bprc.mps.ohio-state.edu/EnvironmentalGeochemistry/slter/index.html

The MCM LTER focuses on stream ecology and long-term monitoring by high
school students and teachers at three schools in the United States. The
three schools are:

1) Tuscaloosa Academy, a private school in Tuscaloosa, AL, where a
stream that crosses school property has been monitored since 1998 by the
students of Ms. Kim Ouderkirk.
http://www.tuscaloosaacademy.org/

2) Lakeside School, Seattle, WA, where Ms. Barb Schulz's classes have been
monitoring Thornton Creek, which is an urban watershed.
http://www.lakesideschool.org/

3) Linworth Alternative Program, Worthington, OH, where Carol Landis's
classes have been monitoring the Olentangy River, part of the watershed
draining into the Ohio River.
http://www.linworth.org/a_river.htm

This site is being built through the efforts of three students at the
Linworth Alternative Program, Worthington City Schools, Worthington, OH.
It was begun in July, 2003, and will continue throughout the 2003-04 school
year. So, please check back for updates.

Please feel free to browse the site and send suggestions to:
joeschmo@columbus.rr.com