INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL PARK: Do you enjoy being outdoors in the winter? Are you available from 3-4:30 in the afternoon? If so, why not sign up to help Dr. Joshua Rapp of Harvard Forest collect data for a research project he is conducting at Indiana Dunes National Park? Dr. Rapp is investigating how climate affects the culture and ecology of sugar maple trees, and he is utilizing the help of volunteer citizen scientists. Staff from Indiana Dunes National Park and the Great Lakes Research and Education Center are looking for volunteers who live within a 30 minute drive of Porter, Indiana, who are interested in collecting data for this project on one or more afternoons each week from February 1st through approximately mid-March.
No experience is necessary. Training sessions will be held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1, and at 2:00 p.m. Monday, February 3. People may attend either session. The training sessions will begin indoors at the Park Connection Office on Minerals Springs Road, and will move outdoors to the actual sugar bush research site. Participants should wear boots and dress for the weather.
The Park Connection Office (formerly known as the Bailly/Chellberg Contact Station) is located adjacent to the Bailly Homestead/Chellberg Farm parking lot on Mineral Springs Road, just north of U.S. 20. For more additional information about this volunteer opportunity, call 219-395-1987. For information about other programs at Indiana Dunes National Park, call or visit our website at www.nps.gov/indu and our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/IndianaDunesNP.
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The Indiana Dunes National Park is one of 419 units of the National Park System ranging from Yellowstone to the Statue of Liberty. Located in Northwest Indiana, the park includes 15 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline and 15,000 acres of biodiverse beaches, woods, prairies, and marshes. Up to 2 million visitors come to the Indiana Dunes each year.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
