Students study microbiology, animal populations, plant life, and water flow rates and chemistry.
Throughout the process, each group is aware of what other groups are studying, and during the course of the year they will develop an understanding of interconnections between all dimensions of the Flat Rock Brook ecosystem. In addition, students have access to methods and results from past years' groups, and they therefore can learn from the successes and difficulties of previous student-researchers, and add to a continually growing set of data. The results of the studies are made available to the Flat Rock Brook staff and Board of Trustees, and hopefully will assist them in education programs and in making management decisions. In short D-E students are doing real science leading to positive goals. Click on the link below to see some representative samples of projects from the 1999-2000 school year.