Lakeview Elementary School GLOBE Program

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Lakeview Elementary School GLOBE Program

• Lakeview Elementary School
• Phoenix, Arizona
• Latitude 33 deg 26.30 min North
• Longitude 112 deg 4.4 min West
• Elevation 372 m
• Ms. Stacia Deering, GLOBE teacher, works with
  Project Potential (gifted) students from
  kindergarten to sixth grade. Lakeview students
  have been collecting data since January of 1996.
  The GLOBE Program gives students the opportunity
  to demonstrate extraordinary skills that may not
  be apparent in a regular classroom setting. It
  fosters independence, integrity, and curiosity
  about our environment.

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Our GLOBE Site

• Our GLOBE site is in a fenced area next to the
  school. It has a well occasionally used to fill
  an artificial lake. The site has been mostly
  undisturbed for 20 years and is left natural.
  Our hydrology site is an artificial lake near the
  school.

Ms. Deerings 5th Grade students dig
soil moisture monitor holes and soil horizon
pits. November, 1997.
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Effects of El Nino

• These pictures show the effects of El Nino at our
  GLOBE site. Notice the increase in rainfall in
  1998 and compare the vegetation at the GLOBE
  site.

May 1997
May 1998
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El Nino and the Sonoran Desert

• El Nino rainfall has transformed our desert with
  wildflowers, including poppies, lupine, owls
  clover and blue dicks. This site is about 4 miles
  from our school in the Phoenix Mountain Preserve.

March 1998