Chastity's blog

What is C3 all about? Well, that is the same question I asked myself about the name of this YES component prior to me assisting as a mentor with it. I soon learned that C3 stood for Communicating Climate Change and the teens that are in the component are responsible for exactly that. The teens that are a part of the component are responsible for working everyday in the summer and on Saturdays in the fall and spring to research Climate Change in our environment in several different ways. Then of course they are then responsible for communicating this information to several different scientists and experts around the country who are also studying this phenomenom. Delighted to become a part of this component, I came to be astounded by the remarkable ways that the teens were studying. They were actually gaining the experience of real researchers and scientists. One of the main ways to study climate change is by studying amphibians. Amphibians are considered an indicator species which means that they are one of first living things that show us signs of something going wrong within our environment. So, one of the things that the teens study in the summer is frog calls. Studying the frog calls identifies the changes of species of the frogs in the area and also detects how much earlier or later the frogs are calling for the area.