{"id":357,"date":"2020-04-22T09:08:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T16:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/?p=357"},"modified":"2020-04-22T09:08:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T16:08:07","slug":"the-phenomenal-landscape-of-the-pumice-plain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/the-phenomenal-landscape-of-the-pumice-plain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Phenomenal Landscape of the Pumice Plain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/MSH5-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/MSH5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/MSH5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/MSH5-676x507.jpg 676w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/MSH5.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Ribbons of green show riparian vegetation along streams on the Pumice Plain. Photo by Shannon Claeson <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside getting to conduct research at Mount St Helens, our team has the opportunity to explore the beautiful landscape of the Pumice Plain.<\/p>\n<p>The Pumice Plain is a 20 km2 region, essentially devoid of life in 1980, but slowly being colonized by a riparian willows and alders.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/MSH5a-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/MSH5a-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/MSH5a-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/MSH5a-676x507.jpg 676w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/MSH5a.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption> Close-up view of Loowit Falls on the north side of the mountain&nbsp;(right) and a corner of Crater Glacier (left). Photo by Shannon Claeson <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Five new watersheds have formed on the Pumice Plain of MSH since 1980, each receiving water from different sources (springs, groundwater, snowmelt, glaciers). Crater Glacier is one of the only glaciers in the lower 48 to be actually growing! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\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\/MSHb-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/MSHb-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/MSHb-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/MSHb-676x507.jpg 676w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/04\/MSHb.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption> We get to spend hours gazing across fields of wildflowers on the Pumice Plain of Mount St. Helens. Photo by Carri LeRoy&nbsp; <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Landscape scale patterns across watersheds at MSH have allowed us to explore environmental differences across watersheds that don\u2019t vary in age, parent material, slope, or aspect on the sterile and relatively homogeneous Pumice Plain, that 40 years later, is bursting with life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alongside getting to conduct research at Mount St Helens, our team has the opportunity to explore the beautiful landscape of the Pumice Plain. The Pumice Plain is a 20 km2 region, essentially devoid of life in 1980, but slowly being colonized by a riparian willows and alders.\u00a0 Five new watersheds have formed on the Pumice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6,4,5],"tags":[43,38,40,31,44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357"}],"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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}