Diary of the Plant

Tuesday Feb. 15
Received the soil and seed today, planted about an inch under the soil and took it to classes.
Back at the apartment, I put the cup with the plant in the windowsill where there was sun.

Wednesday Feb. 16, Thursday Feb. 17, and Friday Feb. 18
Gave the plant about a teaspoon of water because the soil looked dry.

Sunday Feb. 20
The plant sprouted about an inch!!!

Monday Feb. 21 and Tues. 22
Watered plant- teaspoon
Plant grew and has two leaves

Feb. 26, 2011
Plant has 4 leaves and furry stem.

March 2, 2011

Gave plant teaspoon of water and left in sun all day, temperature of room around 70 degrees throughout whole experiment so far.

Plant is standing straight up and leaves look same as picture above.

March 15, 2011

Have been giving plant about a teaspoon of water ever other day including today and it is standing straight up with more leaves on the windowsill.

March 23, 2011

Plant has not changed much since last photo and must have stopped growing but is growing straight. 

Given teaspoon of water yesterday and every other day before that.

March 25, 2011

Replanted Audrey into a new pot with Miracle Grow.

April 4, 2011

Plant found wilted completely today, gave it quite a bit of water.

April 5th, 2011

Plant is back alive and well with a couple lost leaves

April 25, 2011

Pretty sure my plant has been dead for about 3 days now =(

May 1, 2011

The plant is still wilted and dead, may need more room to grow its roots or it is a lost cause unfortunately =(

Geocaching Lab

1,236.44 ft path

My first geocaching lab experience was on Tuesday, February 1 and shown above is the path around the Willet Science Center and Tarver library where the 8 containers were found.  I place a yellow marker at each coordinate in Google Earth and put the descriptions of the bottle and what was inside of each like so:

• #1: Black metal container with rolled piece of paper inside
• #2: Clear container with white lid, black eyed peas inside
• #3: Red metal container with rolled paper
• #4: Rx bottle, tabasco sauce inside
• #5: Rx bottle, soda can tabs
• #6: Clear bottle, chalk 
• #7: Clear bottle, battery 
• #8: Rx bottle, magnets and little toy car

Geocaching is similar to scavenger hunts but with GPS coordinates and a GPS device.  The idea is to locate hidden containers that have been hidden with your GPS device using provided coordinates on the geocaching site or elsewhere and to record what has been found for your records.  Then you are supposed to put the container back exactly where you found it.  On the official global website, http://www.geocaching.com/, they remind you that if you take what is inside the container you located, to put another object of equal or lesser value into the container. 

GPS and mapping can be used for environmental research in many ways.  From comparing amount of rainfall from one county to the next to elevation levels of Mt. Kilimanjaro; mapping has proven to be a great advantage in new tools and advances in environmental technology and scientific information gained.  GPS is used in so many ways as well, from fun geocaching to installation in airplanes that can capture information on the Earth and digitally process it to be analyzed quickly.  This can be used to forecast earthquake before they occur and analyze animal populations from the air.