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Fun with Data Science. Free online activity.

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The Andrews Forest LTER site is featured in the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry’s (OMSI)’s Science At Home Weekly, which offers curated, digital content for K-8 students focused on weekly themes. 

Check out Fun with Data Science (week 12) at: https://omsi.edu/at-home/weekly-science-activities

The content, which includes a reading, DIY activity, a career connection, and a design challenge is aimed for a K-8 audience but is most appropriate for upper elementary - early high school audiences or anyone with an interest in Long-Term Ecological Research. Fun with Data Science is available free of charge to anyone with internet access.

We invite you to share this opportunity with a colleague, friend, or relative.

We hope these engaging at-home activities will keep you curious—inspiring you to conduct your own experiments and do your own research.

Lookout Creek 2019

OSU graduate students Emilee Mowlds and Francisco Pickens with undergraduate student Erik Swanson electrofishing for stream vertebrates in upper Lookout Creek.

Mack Creek 2017

A fallen tree in Mack Creek (tributary to Lookout Creek) has made a large pool below a small waterfall.

Mack Creek 2017

Large wood in Mack Creek (tributary to Lookout Creek) providing cover for fish and salamanders.

McRae 2019

A photo of McRae Creek, close to its confluence with larger Lookout Creek.

Mack Creek 2018

Complex stream habitat in Mack Creek, a tributary to Lookout Creek.

Lookout Creek 2018

Electrofishing site for stream vertebrate survey. Research for part of the SCALER project.

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