Garth P. UR - Since when was a dog a clown and what does this have to do with global cimate change?

SO, IRP topic...well since I am going into forestry conservation I found it particularly important to make that great connection between the land and the sea. I have always been like a clown for trees. They have their red noses and tiny bicycles…I have trees. I tell you what, all the crazy stuff I did as a child, like jumping tree top to tree top 30 feet in the air, swaying the tree to build momentum for the jump. Awesome. Also, incredibly dangerous.

Now having never personally studied that connection I understood that there is a deep relationship between ocean temperature and climate. Climate is everything for an ecosystem. You change that and the organic world bows to mother nature. Another point I would like to address is how climate change has affected weather patterns. Briefly I would like to touch on ecosystems and talk about how the average temperature and rainfall is potentially effecting our national parks. I plan to pick several national parks in separate climate zones within the United States to build a statistical outlay of data to compile, collect, collaborate and study these variances in climate change or lack thereof.

Dr. Woodall has shown me that vast resources are available for global/regional, climate/change and more specifically climate data which is available from reliable organizations through the internet. With these sources and others, I might find.  I plan to compile and contrast recorded changes in different state park climate zones. So, my scientific question might read…How do our oceans effect inland climate and weather patterns and has global warming and rising sea levels affected weather patterns/climate, creating changes impacting our forest ecosystems and overall health. Or so, I think.