The Madison-Hills Paleoecology Project ("MPEP")

Introduction

The MPEP is a privately funded endeavor that will drill and sample the layers of soft sediment that have accumulated in the deepest part of Big Pea Porridge Pond ("BPPP") in Madison, New Hampshire during the past +/- 14,000 years. The purpose of the work is to scientifically analyze, technically describe/catalogue, and radiocarbon/proxy date these progressively deposited materials to establish the ecologic change-sequence history of the Pond's basin since the departure of the last ice sheet. The work described above will begin in late January or early February 2008 and be completed by late Spring or Summer 2008.

Scientific Basis of the MPEP

Lake-bottom sediments represent the most continuously detailed records of post-glacial (Pleistocene to Holocene) climate and environmental change available, and such records provide the best long term context for the dramatic physical and biological/ecological changes that have occurred during what has become to be known as the "Anthropocene" period (time since the beginning of extensive human habitation).

Who's Involved

The scientific staff of MPEP includes the following individuals, all of whom are donating their professional expertise to the project:

P. Thompson Davis, Ph.D., Dept. of Natural & Applied Sciences, Bentley College.
Brian Fowler, Quaternary Scientist, Project Director.
Lee Pollock, Ph.D., Dept. of Biology, Drew University.
Lisa Doner, Ph.D., Center for the Environmental, Plymouth State University



Friday, March 21, 2008

Social Posting #7

With the success of our latest drilling day behind us I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to those who helped before, during and after the project on the behind-the-scenes activities. Firstly, and very importantly, a huge thanks go to Lee and Sylvia Pollock for their enthusiasm, encouragement, and support in so many ways I can't begin to describe. One way was in allowing us to use their house for the initial January introductory meeting where so many of you came to find out what this was all about. They have supplied food and drink for that first meeting and countless other informal meetings about the project. They put their heads together with us and came up with the "patch" design and it's name. And, they've been a constant source of project energy and creativity-intellectual, physical and psychological. I'm not sure we could have pulled this off without them.
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