GLOBE Freeze Up Observations

GLOBE Freeze Up Observations

Naperville Community Unit School District 203

Mrs. Nolan's Students of Steeple Run School have been documenting the freeze up and break up of Lake Marmo when they meet Mr. Lopatka to collect GLOBE data on Saturdays.

Ms. Kouri's students of Highlands School have been watching the DuPage River for freeze up. Click here for pictures.

Green Arrow is where our weather station is located.

Red Arrow is where we took the pictures of Lake Marmo from shore.

Yellow Arrow is where we took the pictures of Lake Marmo from the bridge.

The surface area of Lake Marmo is 160,063 square feet (121.9 square Meters) or 3.67 acres with out the interior island.

The length is approximately 792 feet (241.04 M) and the width is 217 Feet (66.14 M) at it's widest point. The depth of the lake is about 10 feet (3.048 M) deepest point.

Looking South East, we observed one wet spot (Black circle just above the date stamp.) See Red Arrow on Map.	Looking South at Lake Marmo. GPS Reading: 216 Meters above Sea level. 41.81649 Degrees North and 88.02234 West	We were surprised to see that Lake Marmo, had ice from shore to shore. This view is looking southwest. See Red Arrow on Map.
This view is looking North from a bridge at the West end of Lake Marmo. See Yellow Arrow on Map.	This view is looking Northeast from the bridge. GPS Reading: 216 Meters above Sea level. 41.81533 Degrees N. and 88.0879 W.	This is the view when looking East Northeast from the Bridge. See Yellow Arrow on Map.

View A from Shore (See the Diagram Below)	View B from Shore	View C from Shore
View D from the Bridge	View E from the Bridge	View F from the Bridge

View A from Shore (See the Diagram Below)	View B from Shore	View C from Shore
View D from the Bridge	View E from the Bridge	View F from the Bridge

Lake Marmo at the Morton Arboretum froze up from shore to shore on December 1, 2007, but on January 8th, the lake started to melt. (Above) On January 11, 2008, all of the ice was melted! (6 pictures below)

View A from Shore (See the Diagram Below)	View B from Shore	View C from Shore
View D from the Bridge	View E from the Bridge	View F from the Bridge

On January 16, 2008, thin coat of the ice formed from shore to shore. The inlet creek was still liquid. On January 19, 2008 we had a low of -20 C and the creek was frozen and we had 5 cm of snow on Lake Marmo. (6 pictures below)

View A from Shore (See the Diagram Below)	View B from Shore	View C from Shore
View D from the Bridge	View E from the Bridge	View F from the Bridge

One of the volunteer students checks the surface temperature.

Surface temperatures were between -20 and -25 C.

We had a nice turn out on a cold windy day. Lake Marmo was frozen and snow covered, but 3 days later, all of the snow was gone.	The surface of the Lake was covered with ice, but we observed a lot of water flowing under the ice and under the bridge.
This is View D from the Bridge.	This is where the water goes after it flows over the waterfall.

View A from Shore (See the Diagram Below)	View B from Shore	View C from Shore
View D from Shore	View E from Shore	View F from Shore

Students and parents from Steeple Run and Highlands Schools

Mr. Lopatka with students at Lake Marmo.

View A from Shore (See the Diagram Below)	View B from Shore	View C from Shore
View D from Shore	View E from Shore	View F from Shore
View A from Shore (See the Diagram Below)	View B from Shore	View C from Shore

View D from Shore

View E from Shore

View F from Shore

View A from Shore (See the Diagram Below)

View B from Shore

View C from Shore

View D Just a little ice on the south shore

View E from Shore

View F from Shore

After doing our GLOBE activities, we went to see the Iditarod Dogs run.

This GLOBE Star showed up almost every week! Thank You!!

On the Week of December 17 Ms. Kouri's 4th and 5th grade students from Highlands School joined the Surface Temperature campaign. Click here for pictures.

Information about the GLOBE program

GLOBE is an acronym for Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment.

GLOBE is a global environmental program that uses the internet to share student’s observations and measurements with GLOBE scientist and students. My Randolph School students recorded over 8000 environmental measurements during my 6 years in the program.

I was trained for GLOBE at University of Illinois Urbana March 1995

I served as a GLOBE Teacher Trainer at the following places:

University of Illinois Urbana August 1995

Drexel University in Philadelphia August, 1996

New York University October 1996

Ohio Aerospace Institute November, 1996

University of Illinois Urbana March, 1997

New Hampshire April, 1997

University of Iowa October, 1997

University of Colorado January, 1998

Ohio Aerospace Institute November, 1998

GLOBE New Mexico Workshop May, 1999

Charleston GLOBE South Carolina Workshop October, 1999

West Chester PA October, 2000

Fairbanks Alaska March 2007

Fairbanks Alaska September 2007

In September of 2003, the Naperville School District 203 formed a partnership with the GLOBE Program. We have performed Teacher workshops in the following places:

Naperville IL September, 2003

Highland Park, Illinois July, 2005 Workshop

Park Ridge, Illinois September, 2005

Morton Arboretum, Lisle Illinois February 2010

GLOBE Stars

GLOBE Freeze Up Data at the DuPage River

GLOBE Surface Temperature at the Arboretum

GLOBE Surface Temperature at Highlands School

GLOBE Hydrology Study websites:

Bass release November 4, 2006

Bass Release November 3, 2007

Bass Release November 1, 2008

Bass Release November 7, 2009