{"id":314,"date":"2020-04-20T09:40:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/?p=314"},"modified":"2020-04-20T09:40:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T16:40:31","slug":"data-collection-in-newly-created-watersheds-at-msh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/data-collection-in-newly-created-watersheds-at-msh\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Collection in Newly Created Watersheds at MSH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When Mount St. Helens erupted, it resulted in a massive landslide that buried existing forests, streams, and watersheds. Since the eruption, five (5) novel watersheds have developed on the Pumice Plain. These streams on the north face of MSH have been our team\u2019s main interest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Undergraduates, faculty and collaborators have been able to conduct studies on environmental variation and biotic communities across these watersheds to address in-stream primary succession because of the unique ecosystem the eruption of MSH created.<\/p>\n<p>We are especially interested in how riparian plants influence stream channel dynamics, increase shade, and input organic matter to these newly developing streams. Stay tuned for more about how willow sex differences and a wandering weevil alter in-stream ecosystem function!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day3b-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day3b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day3b-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day3b-676x507.jpg 676w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day3b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Stream gauges in all five watersheds help us track water flow and sediment movement- even through the dark and deep snow of winter.\u00a0 Photo by Carri LeRoy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day3-297x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-294\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day3-297x300.png 297w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/day3.png 459w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><figcaption>Tricky work of trying to keep our light loggers facing upwards in the middle of each streams \u2013 strap them to big rocks! Photo by Carri LeRoy <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mount St. Helens erupted, it resulted in a massive landslide that buried existing forests, streams, and watersheds. Since the eruption, five (5) novel watersheds have developed on the Pumice Plain. These streams on the north face of MSH have been our team\u2019s main interest.\u00a0 Undergraduates, faculty and collaborators have been able to conduct studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7504,"featured_media":171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6,4,5,9],"tags":[39,38,31,37,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}