Asiatic Clam

The Asiatic Clam is the clam that we collected in the river. Its origin is in eastern Asia and Africa. Exactly when and how is arrived in the United States is unknown.  The Asian clam does well in estuarine habitats and river beds and is found in fresh waters throughout the United States.  The Asian clam is known to clog intake pipes, damage industrial water systems, alter aquatic habitat, and disrupt irrigation canals. There is also concern that Asian clams compete for food with native mussels and clams. 

The Spanish Flu of 1918

The Spanish Flu of 1918 was an unusually severe and deadly influenza pandemic that spread across the world.  Most victims to the flu were healthy young adults.  The pandemic lasted from June 1918 to December 1920, spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands.  3% of the world's population (1.8 billion at the time) died of the disease. 

Tree Love/Hitchiti Forest

The Hitchiti Forest Research Center was established in 1946 by the Forest Service, USDA, to find ways and means of producing more wood in the depleted forests of lower Piedmont Georgia, Alabama, and South Carolina. Sixty percent of the 18-1/2 million-acre territory is in forest. The forest consists principally of even-aged stands of loblolly pine on the uplands and a mixture of oaks, hickories, yellow-poplar, and other hardwoods on the moist sites.

Ocmulgee National Monument

This past week our class visited Ocmulgee National Monument for lab.  While there we learned that  there I  were two wars fought in Macon during the civil war on the monuments grounds.  In 2014 the park will commemorate the battles that took place at the Dunlap farm.

Rogue Waves!!

Rogue Waves which are also known as freak waves, monster waves, killer waves, extreme waves, and abnormal waves,are relatively large and spontaneous ocean surface waves that occur far out in sea, and are a threat even to large ships and ocean liners.  In oceanography, they are more precisely defined as waves whose height is more than twice the significant wave height (SWH).  Rogue waves are not tsunamis, which are set in motion by earthquakes [and] travel at high speed, building up as they approach the shore. Rogue waves seem to occur in deep water or where a number of physical factors such as strong winds and fast currents converge. This may have a focusing effect, which can cause a number of waves to join together.

Caught On Tape: Wave Crashes Into Cruise Ship

Soil!

link to 12 soil orders of world

      Ultisol

Georgia soils typically are lacking of nutrients, but support a variety of southern pine trees. Red clay soils in Georgia are not well aerated and must often be supplemented with manure and soil conditioners in order to support landscape features throughout Georgia's suburban areas.

One of the ways we identify soil is by looking at the soil and we also use the Munsell soil color chart to identify. 

Munsell Soil Color Chart pdf link

                               Soil Map of Georgia

 Soil Texture Dichotomous key