BINGHAM — Collin Miller, a junior at Upper Kennebec Valley High School, was challenged through the Gifted and Talented Program to apply his knowledge and skills to a real life application. He chose to study the effects of weather on the movement of deer. He is an avid hunter and decided to use his abilities to carve out some revelations about the probability of finding deer relative to varying weather conditions. He used seven cameras on land typical of small Maine farms in the woods and fields. He was also able to access weather station data through the Greenville weather station. His study looked at unstable barometric pressure, wind speed, temperature, moon phases and precipitation.
His teacher James Tyler, reported Miller had to spend considerable time correlating the data and found that most sightings happened when the barometric pressures were 30.1 inHG and 30.2 inHG. The result of his investigation over a year was published in the September 2014 issue of Northwoods Sporting Journal.
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Miller was introduced to a wild life biologist early in his project and gained some motivation to pursue this kind of pursuit.
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