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NewsHow an organization grows... We've had an exceptionally busy spring, as we enjoyed ourselves at many green events and worked tirelessly on program achievement and creation. Thus, we have much to announce: Planting for Change has received funding from EcoAction and we have started plans and procedures to plant for Fall 2008. The six schools involved have all come through ACER's Summer Institute and implemented the Our Schoolyard program this year. They now have maps and a baseline inventory of their schoolyards; the next step is for the students to participate as we design and plant an outdoor climate change lab. Each school will monitor the trees planted and assess climate change impacts under the differing climate conditions on schoolgrounds, from the Lake Ontario shoreline to 50km north. This summer ACER starts another new program, the Humber Youth Stewardship, created in partnership with the City of Toronto, TRCA, YMCA, Humber Arboreturm, NERP and councillor Suzan Hall. An inventory of invasives and assessment of proper removal strategies will be conducted within the Humber River Valley, using ACER inventory methods and restoration methods agreed upon by all partners. Finally, the Niagara Peninsula Project has been inititated, which involves a reinvigoration of ACER's Go Global! program of established forest monitoring that started 10 years ago. The Environment Canada Courts Award program has sponsored continued monitoring research on the plots we have in the Niagara Penninsula, and we will track the changes that have occurred in this region within the past 10 years. We are extremely pleased to see how ACER's growing, how the Our Schoolyard Summer Institute for 2008 looks to be our best yet, and for the continued successes with all our other programs. Thanks for helping us get here. Thanks to our Measure & mulchers spring 2008
Thank you to all the students, teachers and volunteers who joined us for MEASURE & MULCH at ACER's Outdoor Climate Change Lab at Humber College. This Spring we had over 120 students come visit our field station, to care for and monitor the trees planted here five years ago. A special thank you to Jennifer Morrill, a student teacher who decided to hold her last practicum session with us at ACER (that's her teaching about students about climate change impacts on trees). This March 2008, at the climate change and biodiversity in the americas conference in Panama, Alice Casselman from ACER presented the results of the past five years of research here at Humber Arboretum. You can find the scientific poster illustrating the results on our new web page, www.measureup.ca, under Data. Contact us at info@acer-acre.org or call 905.275.7685 to book your class trip. |
EventsOur School Yard Summer Institute 2008 will be held August 18-20, hosted by Appleby College in Oakville. To find out more about the program click here. To see the status of current projects, please see our new website www.measureup.ca ACER Newsletters
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