Tule Ponds at Tyson Lagoon Special Events

Community Service, Service Learning, and Community Events
Tule Ponds at Tyson Lagoon

Tule Ponds at Tyson Lagoon, located in Fremont (1999 Walnut Ave, behind the Fremont BART station), is open for community service and service learning on the days listed below. You do not need to sign up for the event, just drop in. Wear appropriate clothes. Click here for more information on Tule Ponds at Tyson Lagoon.

Volunteer Dates
email: msn@msnucleus.org
SATURDAYS unless noted

Month	DATE TIME: 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
February, 2010	13, (Mon 15), 20,27
March, 2010	6(must email if attending), 13, 20

Volunteers are recommended to wear garden work clothes due to field work!

PLEASE CHECK WEBSITE IF RAINING

Community workdays are open to all high school students, Eagle and Girl Scouts, Senior Citizen groups, other community groups and individuals.

Please check our website for more information on volunteering: http://msnucleus.org/volunteer_schedule.htm or call (510) 790-6284 or email: msn@msnucleus.org

(collecting and/or sowing seeds)
Native plant installation (planting trees, shrubs or wildflowers)
Non-native plant removal
Trash removal from ponds and trails
Spreading mulch and chips around plants and on trails
Tree and trail maintenance (watering and pruning)
Docents for Open Houses
Transplanting nursery plants from the greenhouse

Service learning hours can be earned by designing and carrying out individual or group science projects. Some examples of projects are:

Increasing butterfly habitat
Habitat restoration for amphibians and reptiles
Water sampling from the ponds and/or lagoon to monitor water quality
Stream ecology (which may include monitoring aquatic organisms such as fish and invertebrates)
Bird studies and bird nest box monitoring
Removal of non natives
Growing native trees from seeds

Community service hours can be earned by working on the following projects:

The butterfly meadow
Creating and maintaining amphibian corridor(s)
Native plant propagation

Students, teachers, and community members interested in environmental restoration, volunteering, tree planting, or other functions of the Math Science Nucleus in Fremont, California area.

Community workdays are open to all high school students. You may email if you are planning to attend so we can have appropriate tools available. However drop in volunteers are welcomed. You should look at the information on our website on Tule Ponds. Projects that might be of interest to students can be found by clicking here. If you are interested please email Dr. Blueford (blueford@msnucleus.org) about a possible project. If you are not an Irvington Student and would like to do a longer term project, please email and we can arrange a project.