Indiana Dunes

Habitats and Microclimates

• Indiana Dunes State Park website
  
• See Indiana Dunes microclimate page
  
• Interdune Station (map and photo)
• Backdune Station (map and photo)
• Blowout Station (map and photo)
• Woodland Station (map and photo)
• Official Indiana Dunes State Park map
  

Plant Collections

We have been collecting in several location around the Dunes:

• Aquilegia (columbines) distribution map (Christos add .kml link)
• Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) distribution map (Google Earth .kml link)
• Interdune trough
  
• Blowout swale
  
• Black Oak savanna
• Wet prairie (remnants along train tracks)
• Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) distribution map (Google Earth .kml link)
• Dune flats
  
• Black Oak savanna
• Wet prairie (remnants along train tracks)
• Big Bluestem (Andropogon gerardii) distribution map (Google Earth .kml link)
• Black Oak savanna
  
• Wet prairie (remnants along train tracks)
• Indiangrass (Sorgastrum nutans) distribution map (Google Earth .kml link)
• Black Oak savanna
• Arabidopsis lyrata (Lyrata) distribution map (Google Earth .kml link)

 The lab everytrail account shows our collection trips.  Images of individual plants that we collected seed from can be found in Gallery. Recently we started taking Gigapan shots at a series of Dunes locations.

More about the Indiana Dunes

• Getting there: Train Schedule
• The Dunes system is a rapidly evolving  network of habitats that which change via succession. See this anonymous authored story of succession and Reading the Landscape by May Theilgaard Watts
• GIS layers, including land cover, habitat types, fire management, aerial photographs (provided by the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore)

• An updated version of how to geotag photos using flickr.com and everytrail.com can be found here. Instructions for GPS geotagging
• One of our favorite sites is the State Park. A 15k walk along Route #10 can start from Dune Park Station and end back at Beverly Shores. The E & E retreat walk.