Can you tell a spring peepers from a wood frogs? What does a carpenter frog sound like and do they live in your neighborhood? Join GSWA and FrogWatch partners Eric Jackson and Tedor Whitman from Cora Hartshorn Arboretum for this hands-on training session to learn your frogs and even become an official FrogWatch volunteer! FrogWatch is a citizen science program using volunteer observations to establish long-term and large-scale data on amphibian populations. Learn how to recognize different species of frogs and toads from their appearance and calls, and how to record your observations into the database. We will work with you to find monitoring locations and you will be frog counting in no time!

Together, we all just faced some of the most severe weather we've seen in New Jersey since Hurricane Sandy, causing wide-spread power outages, thousands of downed trees, and major structural damage. In less than four weeks, we went from a stone-cold winter, to a beautiful, 80-degree day, to relentless winds, to 26-plus inches of snow in some parts of the state.   In the past decade, New Jersey has experienced its wettest and warmest years in over a century of observations. Extreme events of late suggest that something is happening to our climate regime.   We've asked Dr. David Robinson, a professor in the Department of Geography & a NJ State Climatologist at Rutgers University, to help us explore the physical dimensions of the issue, both short and long term.  Dr. Robinson will also help us learn how we can get more involved in the monitoring of weather and climate conditions in our local regions.