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To Survey a Sapling: The 2021
Community Trees Challenge
By Tommy Vinh Bui, MLIS Associate
Librarian , Inglewood Public Library
It’s veritably vernal outdoor these days
and a perfect opportunity to unfurl your face
from those onerous textbooks and studious
eye-straining studying you students have been
diligently attending to. And affix your eyes
upward and get all arboreal this Spring with
the 2021 Community Trees Challenge. Let’s
re-inject some fresh air into those wheezy lungs
and indulge in an invigorating (and sociallydistanced
and safe) activity that will behoove
science at the same time.
The Community Tree Challenge provides
intrepid science enthusiasts with a unique
opportunity to shore up their observation
skills and field experience as they contribute
to a critical NASA-sponsored citizen science
project. Additionally, your keen field notes and
evaluations will bolster a global database that
is free and open to all researchers and other
environmental advocates.
The fastidious observation of trees can sound
straightforward enough but thorough scrutiny
and attention to detail will best serve the needs
of this initiative. You can wander onto your
very own lawn and examine the dendrologic
denizens that might populate your property. A
useful GLOBE Observer app can be utilized for
this data collection. Your meticulous observations
might include measuring the angle of the
tree between the top and bottom along with
the overall circumference of the trunk using a
homemade clinometer. Photographs and reports
of the surface conditions of the tree will also
behoove researchers as well.
This is an ideal scenario for lugging on dusty
hiking boots and girding those neck muscles
craning upwards at the oxygen-producing
sentinels that stand tall around Inglewood.
All whilst improving your science observation
skillset, acquiring new knowledge about native
trees, and interacting hands-on with your
landscape and community topographic features.
These activities are suitable for anyone with
access to the outdoors and a healthy dose of
vigorous curiosity in tow. And together we’ll
learn and advance our understanding of the
Earth’s forests to the benefit of all.
And how does tree-gazing contribute to
scientific study and why are your observations
crucial, you thoughtfully inquire? Because trees
play an invaluable role in cooling and moistening
our air and rejuvenating the biosphere
with precious life-yielding oxygen and can
help maintain a sustainable balance in our ever
increasing global carbon output. Verdant and
healthy forests are considered one of the most
significant banks for all the carbon bulging
in our atmosphere via natural processes and
human activities. And the collective height of
trees are the most reliable indicator of any
given ecosystem’s capacity to keep pace and
expand as time goes by. Keeping a close eye
on the rate of growth and tree height provides
NASA scientists a better understanding of the
accumulated gain or loss of biomass in the
ecosystem. Which in turn informs potential
scientific calculations of the amount of carbon
that forests can feasibly absorb and release
into the atmosphere.
So let’s start leering at leaves and brandish
our binoculars at precariously high branches this
Spring. And collaborate with thousands of other
active professional and citizen scientists the world
over together strengthening STEM education and
providing inestimable data for tomorrow’s vital
student research.
Get gauging, eager arborists. •
Drift Into Serenity with
Max Richter’s Sleep
Morgan Rojas for cinemacy.com
“My personal lullaby for a frenetic world.
A manifesto for a slower pace of existence.”
–Max Richter
Max Richter is a composer that I’ve
admired for years. His beautiful, soulfully
constructed compositions have scored the
cinematic achievements of Ad Astra, Arrival,
and Shutter Island, among others. And now,
it’s Max’s turn to step into the spotlight as the
star of his own feature film, Max Richter’s
Sleep, now streaming on MUBI.
Directed by Natalie Johns, Max Richter’s
Sleep is an arresting look at the infamous
performance of his celebrated eight-hour
ambient opus “Sleep” at an open-air concert
in Los Angeles. Together with his creative
partner Yulia Mahr, the documentary explores
the genesis of the complex piece, as well as
the relationship that his fans have developed
to it after spending the night under the stars
while Max and company performed it live.
Max Richter’s Sleep is not only a groundbreaking
composition but also a massively
overwhelming physical performance. Running
eight hours long (his original performance–not
the doc) the “Sleep” composition consists of
204 classical movements and was composed
in consultation with American neuroscientist
David Eagleman, whose input was to scientifically
examine the relationship between music
and the subconscious mind during sleep.
Natalie Johns precisely documents the
strength that it takes to create the perfect
calming atmosphere, all the while emphasizing
Richter’s mission statement of “stillness
and meditation.” As the world seems to be
swinging from one disastrous news event to
the next, Max Richter’s Sleep aims to unite
all who watch in a collective moment of
musical reflection. •
Max Richter’s Sleep, courtesy of MUBI.
Morgan Rojas Tommy Vinh Bui
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