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🏫This past February 6th, the Luquillo Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Schoolyard program celebrated the Data Jam Student Symposium at the Centro de Resiliencia para el Cambio Climático (CRCC) in the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras.

🌴The project looks to help middle school students explore, analyze, and interpret data collected through long-term research in El Yunque National Forest.

✏️For a second year in a row, Deyaneira Ortiz Iglesias, TRACE’s Environmental Equipment Technician, revised and provided feedback on two posters by students in 8th and 9th grade from the school Emilio Scharon Rodríguez in San Sebastián, and got to see them present their research posters. So exciting!🤗

Decomposition experiment - Time point 3

🍂Removal and processing of bags from the decomposition experiment after two months in the field.

🌱We saw greater evidence of fine roots growing into the mesh bags. These are being removed, dried, and weighed to account for root biomass.

Storing leaf litter samples for future grinding and nutrient analyses🍂

The samples shown on the first image are dried leaves from the decomposition experiment, focused on Cecropia schreberiana, Guarea guidonia, and wooden popsicle sticks.