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Vernal Pool Project Field Reports

What We’re Learning

Every spring, intrepid teams of community scientists fan out across the Monadnock Region in search of vernal pools. Here’s what they’ve discovered, by year.

A hand holding a spotted salamander egg mass. (photo © Brett Amy Thelen) 2020 Four college students pose in front of a vernal pool. 2019 Two wood frogs in amplexus in a Peterborough vernal pool. (photo © Cynthia Nichols)) 2018 Jefferson complex salamander eggs, found in a Keene vernal pool in April 2017. (photo © Karen Seaver) 2017 Spotted salamander eggs documented in a Rindge vernal pool in 2016. (photo © Brett Amy Thelen) 2016 Spotted salamander eggs documented in a Harrisville vernal pool in 2015. (photo © Will Holden) 2015 Wood frog eggs, documented in a Keene vernal pool on April 21, 2014. (photo © Brett Amy Thelen) 2014 Spotted salamander eggs, deposited along a twig in a vernal pool. (photo © Brett Amy Thelen) 2013 Jefferson salamander eggs, documented in a vernal pool in the Greater Goose Pond Forest in Keene. (photo © Kelly Garner) 2012

Contact Us

For more information or to volunteer, please contact Brett Amy Thelen at (603) 358-2065 or by email.