Forgot to note the wood frog chirping yesterday in one of the | dying tundra ponds |. Last year was the first year for frog sounds out here.
The wood frogs are found in the Interior (Fairbanks, for example) and freeze solid each winter. Remarkably, they thaw alive, too.
Wow, look what others are doing!
- http://aknhp.uaa.alaska.edu/zoology/Zoology_frogs.htm
We are asking you to help solve these mysteries by gathering baseline data on wood frog distribution and habitat. We provide the training, background, and materials, and you provide actual data to scientists! Do it yourself with the materials included in the links below, or attend a civic or classroom presentation in your area first
Other grassroots science projects,
Alaska Citizen Science Program
Our new Citizen Science Program is a partnership between the public and professional scientists providing opportunities for private citizens to assist wildlife biologists in collecting important information that will be used to support future research and conservation planning. This exciting program allows individuals, families, community organizations, and school groups – anyone interested in learning more about our local wildlife – a chance to get involved. We bring information to you so you can bring data to us! We are kicking off this ambitious program with three distinctive local projects: Wood Frogs; Loons and Grebes; and Alaskan Bats.
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:53:42 -0900
From: David Tessler
Subject: Re: FYI frog
To: “M. Pamela Bumsted, Ph.D.”
Thanks for spreading the word. We hope to have participants from all over the Y-K area helping to understand frogs. We’ve had regualr participation from a school in Shageluk [see Shageluk school of birds -
http://ykalaska.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/shageluk-school-of-birds/ ]. Next year I will have staff that will allow visits to towns and villages off the road system to give public talks and generate interest in volunteer participation in out Citizen Science Programs. You can list our easy websites for reference (instead of those long and difficult ADFG ones):
http://www.akfrogs.net,
http://www.akbats.net,
http://www.akloonwatch.net, and
http://www.akcitizenscience.net.
All of these programs are community related science programs that are generating data, not just disseminating information. We should have our wood frog updates web page updated later in the week and it shows where around the state volunteers have participated, and also describes in more detail how we are using data gathered by our citizen scientists.
Thanks again,
Dave