Acknowledgements    

Our team, Lateefah, Kelsey, Joshua, and Tyler would like to thank the people who helped us with our research project.

To Dr. Snyder, thank you so much for helping us with our research project. We are very glad that you decided to help us as you are busy with college. Thank you also for providing all the data from your weather station so we will be able to gather information for our phenology research.

To Trudy Haselhuhn, Gallaudet Horticulture Specialist, thank you for explaining about our trees species in 2006 and comparing them in this year, 2007. You helped us understand how different these trees can be from year to year.

To all the ESS students at both schools, thank you for helping us to progress with our work. You helped us to get ready to work as we learned about the buds on our trees and you collected so much data.

To Mrs. Huckleberry, thank you for helping us to understand about the trees growing at both schools and how they can be similar or different. We learned a lot from you!   We thank you for helping us write our report.

To Ms. Ellsworth, thank you for helping us to learn about our trees at MSSD. You showed us a lot about trees growing from under the influence of each factor: light, water, or temperature. Thank you for helping us write our report, too.

To the GLOBE Program, thank you for all the data graphs and teaching us how to observe trees. Thank you for letting us participate in the GLOBE Program!