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The SC/SS 115 Ethnobotany class visited Totoa Fetalai-Currie at the Pohnpei Traditional Plant Garden. The plant is iuiu , Alpinia Carolinensis . Gendalin, Katielyne, Nayleen, Tracy, Francisca, Hermina, and Girlynn sit in the front, left to right. Behind them are Sylvana, Sue, and Emillia, with Gary just behind Emillia. Charmarie is behind Sue. Toa cover indigenous, native, and localized plants.

Laboratory 032 involves timing the fall of a ball to determine the acceleration of gravity g. Annie prepares to drop the ball from 180 centimeters while Clyde holds the meter sticks. Calvin and Aleen. Alisi perches gracefully on her toes atop the sink in A101 to make a drop from 300 centimeters. Mason holds the meter sticks, Antely and Brenda handle timing and data recording. Alisi drops the purple super ball as Mason holds the meter sticks. The final drops are made from a balcony outside that provide drop heights of 400 and 500 centimeters. Data from the laboratory ( OpenOffice.org Calc file).

Last term I noted the dearth of outdoor eating options for students choosing to eat outside the cafeteria on a rainy day. For those choosing to buy local take-out, there are no picnic shelters near the stores that provide the take-out. The only reasonable option is to hunker down on the cement with the cats and fly-bitten dogs. For an island that has already had a cholera epidemic that took 19 lives, leaving students such few limited options for sheltered, cleanly lunch feels inappropriate at the very least. Still, the students have yet to protest, and with no wheel squeaking, no oil gets applied.

In this season of the foment of the fern names, my students present on the plants that used to be considered bryophyta and the seedless vascular plants. Nicole starts at the very start, billions of years before mosses there was cyanobacteria. Jumping ahead a few billion, and skipping all manner of monera and algae inbetween, Aaron picks up the story with the life cycle of moss. Nick and Aaron's diagram was one of the best of the class. Riantho taught the class Faichuukese pronunciations of the plants seen on the class hike .

While in Wisconsin I took a camera on a couple of runs . This was made possible by the relative consistency and predictability of the weather there, especially that of precipitation. On Pohnpei, a tropical downburst can occur without any significant warning. Carrying a camera on a run is potentially problematic. This term, however, a FujiFilm Finepix Z33 WP, as in "waterproof" to three meters, permitted me to haul a camera on a typical run to the Nett river and back. Outbound, eastbound headed towards centerpoint, Angie's ahead on the left. The river is at the ridge in the distant background. Downhill just past the new US embassy is the future home of the Bank of Guam. The river is at the ridge on the left - no mountain too far. The interior of the island is rainier. The view south from the state hospital. On the bridge, a view south towards the interior of the island. Hidden behind the trees are the homes of Kamar, Meitik, and Lewetik, Nett. The view northwesterly toward...

Mason releases the ball from a fixed height. This produces a repeatable speed for the ball, allowing multiple identical runs. Gina holds the tape measure at the "origin" - zero centimeters, from which the timers started their stopwatches. Timers mark where the ball was at one second, two seconds, three seconds, and so forth. Each timer has a stopwatch, each keeps track of the their own "seconds" assignment. The three standing were three, four, and five seconds. In the background the measurements to the time positions are being made. This procedure makes time the independent variable and distance the dependent variable. Clyde and Warren work from chalk marks that denote the location the timer was at.

Cumulus castellanus producing rain over the lagoon to the southwest of the Palikir national campus of the College of Micronesia-FSM.