One of the most discussed topics in the Green Industry is Climate Change. On Saturday November 13th ,5 San Diego High students, participants in the Elementary Institute of Science's Commission on Science that Matters, spoke about climate change at the California Wolf Center, but this was no ordinary presentation. These students spoke to the Climate Change research they conducted earlier this July in Glacier National Park. On the original research trip 21 students and 10 chaperones traveled by train from San Diego to Glacier National Park in Montana for a 6 day in park research expedition. While there, students conduct 3 research projects, repeat photography, mountain goat survey, and pika survey. Each of the 3 research projects helped students to identify different areas within the park that are being affected by climate change.
Starting with repeat photography, students used old photographs of the landscape and took the exact photo in present day to see the physical changes to the environment. Both the mountain goat and pika are climate change indicator species and students studied their population and behaviors to see how both are being affected by climate change. The results from each of the projects helped to prove climate is happening in the park and it is affecting the park and its inhabitants. Repeat photography showed loss of vegetation and vegetation growth and take over due to warmer temperatures and shorter winters. The mountain goat and pika both showed students how the warmer temperatures are causing them to move further in to mountains to maintain their required cold core body temperature.
This presentation and students like these are important to the future of the Green Industry. These students are becoming knowledgeable and presenting on a topic that is accepted by some and shunned by others. Either way these students are the future of the Green Industry and presentations and students like this are what is going to keep the industry growing.
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