The 2024 Schedule

• 10:00-10:15  pm Full group meeting on ZOOM with Christine and Paul 

• 10:15-11:00 am. Team meeting with your faculty on YOUR GROUP ZOOM

• This is an illustrated guide from EPA on habitat assessment - very useful to glace at before going to the field.

•  Habitat Assessment Fieldwork - Select a section of stream with at least one pool and riffle and grade the condition of the habitat according to your field data sheet.

• Do fieldwork - make sure to collect e. coli sample, process it and find a warm place for it to incubate until Tuesday night.

• Measure pH, Conductivity, temperature of your stream water.

• Do a written reflection with at least 2 sketches and 3 photos about what you did and saw today, what it looked like, how you felt. See a short video with Thomas' thoughts on how to do this.

• 4-5 pm Full group meeting on ZOOM with Marika to practice field sketching, get ready for Monday.

• 7-830 pm Small group zoom to work on web based portfolios together

TO DO TODAY: Make a a new page in your google sites portfolio entitled Riparian Habitat Assessment post some photos/ sketches of your stream and you sampling, post your reflection for the day on your portfolio. ADD FIELD DATA TO YOUR DATA SHEETsessm

Monday - Macroinvertebrates 

• TICK INFO - READ ME TO BE SAFE

• Check your  E. coli sample test - is it turning color yet?

• before 10 am (watch this preview video that is an overview and this video that is about sampling details, then review these instructions and data sheet 1 (which is in your bag)

• 10:00-10:15  pm Full group meeting on ZOOM with Christine and Paul 

• 10:15-11:00 am. Team meeting with your faculty on YOUR GROUP ZOOM

• There's a new app for Macroinvertebrate ID.  For Apple devices: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/macroinvertebrates/id895060595  and for Android devices: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=macroinvertebrates&c=apps

• Fieldwork Marcoinvertebrate sampling - check your list of gear for the day

• Fieldwork at your stream site (pH, Conductivity, temperature)

• Do a written reflection with at least 2 sketches and 3 photos about what you did and saw today, what it looked like, how you felt. See a short video with Thomas' thoughts on how to do this.

• 4-5 pm Full group meeting on ZOOM with Jerry Greenfield, that's Jerry of Ben and Jerry's, get ready for Tuesday.

• 7 pm Full group ZOOM  about watershed mapping techniques (Gabe) then small group zoom to work on web based portfolios together.

• Download the land use information for your watershed from WikiWatersheds and post on your page. Take a screenshot of your watershed delineation (WIkiWatersheds does not export watersheds as an image) and post on your page.  

TO DO TODAY: Make a a new page in your google sites portfolio entitled Marcoinvertebrates and post some photos/ sketches of your bugs and you sampling, post your reflection for the day on your portfolio. ADD FIELD DATA TO YOUR DATA SHEETsessmentassessmen

Tuesday -  Water Sampling  and Lead in Soils 

• TICK INFO - READ ME TO BE SAFE

• before 10 am. Review these instructions and BEFORE GOING TO YOUR FIELD SITE.

• before 10 am. Please also watch this intro video on samping for lead in soil. It's from a UVM class and the sample kit is slightly different than what you have. Please watch at least from 7:00 to 17:40 (but feel free to watch all of it! Nico, the narrator is our UVM lead expert.

• 10:00-10:15  pm Full group meeting on ZOOM with Christine and Paul 

• 10:15-11 am. Team meeting with your faculty on YOUR GROUP ZOOM

• Lunch break - check your list of gear for the day

• Fieldwork sampling water ( 2 water samples, pH, conductivity, temperature measurements). Begin to fill in your water data sheet (it is in your sample kit)

• Check what soil is under your home 

• Lead sampling at your homestead  (take a composite soil sample as in the video)

• Do a written reflection with sketches and/or photos about what you did and saw today, what it looked like, how you felt. See a short video with Thomas' thoughts on how to do this.

• TICK INFO - READ ME TO BE SAFE

• 4-5 pm Full group meeting on ZOOM with Paul to talk abotu peer review of portfolios

• IMPORTANT -  USE THIS CHECKLIST TO MAKE SURE YOUR PORTFOLIO IS COMPLETE

•  READ your e coli sample. Because you did a 10X dilution of your samples (see these instructions) so you should multiply your results by 10X after you count the blue dots. TAKE A PHOTO OF YOUR BAG AND POST IT TO YOUR WEB PORTFOLIO.

• 7 pm Individual group meetings to do peer review of personal portfolio web sites before leaving home for UVM.

• Ensure sure your portfolio is COMPLETE before going to bed. MAKE SURE all the photos of your sample site are loaded onto your web site so you can access them for your final poster and show them to your friends and faculty at GIV.

• PACKING LIST IS HERE! Download it and check you have everything

TO DO TODAY: Make a a new page in your google sites portfolio entitled Stream water and lead sampling and post at least 3 photos and at least 2  sketches of your site and you sampling and post a several paragraph reflection about your site for the day in your portfolio. ADD FIELD DATA TO YOUR PRINTED DATA SHEET

DOWNLOAD OUR SCHEDULE FOR OUR TIME ON CAMPUS (7/24/24 version)

Wednesday - UVM Move in and Sample Analysis 

• COVID-test before leaving home. Please email christine@giv.org a pic of your Covid Test result.

• Make sure your portfolio is COMPLETE before leaving home

• BRING your water and soil samples, the 15 ml and 50 ml tubes and the baggie with soil. BRING your data sheet.

• LEAVE your phone and computer at home

• PACK YOUR GIV SAMPLING GEAR and bring it to campus with you.

Thursday - UVM Technology, Pollinators, and  Energy Field Trip

Friday - Wastewater, Drones, UVM Research Vessel, and Data Analysis

Saturday - Poster Work and  Sustainability Field Trip

DOWNLOAD our collective data!

Please fill out final reflection by clicking here. We want to know how GIV affected you personally.

Wrapping up the  Institute - a discussion with David Zuckerman, Vermont Lt. Governor and Organic Farmer

Sunday - Poster Session and Closing

Parent Coffee 10am

Poster Presentations 10:30am

Closing Ceremony 11am

Move out of dorms 11:30am