This year, we welcomed over 10 new educators into our Schoolyard Ecology community. One of them is Jason Young! Though this is his first year working with the Buds, Leaves, and Global Warming project he has been in education for 24 years. He works with 8th graders at Overlook Middle School in Ashburnham, MA. In their schoolyard they have a wide range of planted and naturally planted tree species from Sugar Maple to White Birch, American Beech, and Witch Hazel among others. Jason is continuing the data collection first started at Overlook by long time schoolyard collaborator JoAnn Mossman. This year his student’s found that the Sugar Maples dropped their leaves first, a big change from previous years. Jason values that his students are really doing Science and collecting data and analyzing results that are used by others. Welcome aboard Jason! We are so grateful to you and your students for ensuring the continuation of this long-term dataset.
