November Public Library Teen Event: Darwin’s Finches and The Battle of The Beaks

All aboard the HMS Beagle, we’re headed to the Galápagos Islands to learn about Darwin’s famous finches and adaptive radiation! For this month’s library event, EcoReach hosted an ultimate foraging showdown to illustrate the advantages of niche partitioning via adaptive radiation.

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Read more about the article Lifespan Montessori of Athens: All about gopher tortoises!
EcoReach members, Zach, Carol, and Ashley all take turns explaining different facts about gopher tortoises. Here Carol is talking to students about the gopher tortoises’ habitat, the longleaf pine.

Lifespan Montessori of Athens: All about gopher tortoises!

EcoReach volunteers visited Lifespan Montessori of Athens and taught students, ages 3-6, all about gopher tortoises and the longleaf pine ecosystem where they are found.

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Katherine teaching the teens everything about pH measurements! Do you know what pH levels are necessary for healthy streams?

October Public Library Teen Event: A Water Pollution Mystery!

There has been a fish kill in Athens! However, scientists do not know what is to blame... it could be a harmful algal bloom, chemical spill, disease, or E. coli outbreak. In order to find out what has caused the fish kill, students visited 5 water quality stations to test water "before" and "after" the fish kill.

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