August 2010
How can you expand your reach and offerings to work with more schools?
Are the species we catch for our tank, how many are native versus non native, ratios of tidepool survey?
Interdisciplinary - how are invasive species affecting our community?
How do invasive species affect lobstering economy?
How can we find out more about state level priorities?
Should we be concerned about invasive species in our community? why or why not?
Why should we care baout invasive species?
Why is biodiversity important? Getting beyond labels (good bad)..what kind of biodiversity can we observe in our quadrat?
(Why) Does a school yard need biodiversity and why?
Can biodiversity change? What is the biodoversity on our school yard, how does it change over time?
Experiment with human impacts on on biodiversity.
How do humans interact with the biodiversity of our school yard?
New development impacts on streams, biodoversity?
What is the most diverse area of our school yard?
(How) does an invasive species disrupt/affect energy flow within a food web?
What affects do the introduction of x species have on the food web? x species may be a predator, such as wolf, what about behaviors?
Effect of climate on the distribution of species and trees and other elements of the ecosystem?
What about little invasives? bacteria? MRSA?
How can we increase local biodiversity and should we?
Why has the Asian shore crab travelled east and not north? Connections to geography? What vectors? Penobscot Bay specific factors.
What vectors might bring a new species to our town? Boat ramps, campers, wood, hay bedding, ballast water
Do public boat/foot wash/etc cleaning systems actually catch invasive species?
Experiments with invasives on why they are so successful. Time laps cameras for ex.
If mother nature is just doing her job (dispersal) what's the big deal?
Aren't humans an invasive species? Do we fit the definition? competition, disease, etc.
Using our data, can we make a predictive model about invasion and next place it will spread to? rate of spread? location?
How does disturbance, fire, drought affect (plant) community succession?
