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Here
you will find student projects monitoring
the current status of water resources and pollution
in field sites in western Washington.
This
webpage also serves as the center for data
collected in TESC 431 so that long term trends
can be monitored and analyzed by students of following years.
Students
monitor local areas for basic water quality
chemistry parameters including oxygen, conductivity,
temperature, turbidity and nutrients.
They
measure biological parameters such as
plankton diversity and abundance and
chorophyll a concentrations.
They
measure physical parameters such as
flowrate in streams and thermal stratification in lakes.
They
also learn about local water resources,
watershed delineation, local history, and
local organizations doing monitoring and restoration work.
As
final group projects they present their experiences, methods,
findings and comparisons online.
Field
sites vary from year to year but typically include
Commencement Bay, Hylebos Creek and Big Beef Creek
and small local constructed wetlands and lakes.
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