Virtual Environmental Field School
The 2021 Environmental Science Field School (ENVS 2523) made a quick switch to a fully virtual field school this year with the help of many amazing instructors. While we hope this will be a one-time event, it did showcase the dedication and ingenuity of both professors and students. The 8-day field course contained modules on coastal Erosion (Spooner), Plant Ecology (Belliveau), Fungi (Walker), Salt Marsh Ecology (Hill), Entomology (Hillier), Plastic Pollution (Mallory), and Sample collection and quality control analysis (O’Driscoll). A combination of hands-on field videos, iNaturaltist collections, and digital imagery exercises were combined with live TEAMs lectures and projects.
day 1 - coastal erosion
Day 1 - Ian Spooner, Nelson O'Driscoll
Day 2 - Fungi with Nelson O'Driscoll, Alison Walker
Day 2 - Fungi
Day 3 - Plant Ecology, Alain Belliveau
Day 3 - Plant ID
Day 3 - Plant ID
Day 4 - Salt Marsh ecology - Hill
Day 4 - Salt Marsh ecology - Hill
Day 5
Day 5 - Nelson O'Driscoll
Day 5 - Salt marsh pollution
Day 6 - Entomology
Day 6 - Kirk Hillier collecting insects
Day 6 - launching iNaturalist
Day 8 - plastic in the environment, Mark Mallory
Day 8 - plastic in the environment, Mark Mallory
Participants in the field school