Conodoguinet Creek Lab Report

Printed in Forest and Stream, Rod and Gun for September 26, 1903, 'A Yarrum Idler ' based in Washington DC, prepared for his Canadian fishing trip by first seeing if the Library of Congress could provide practical information in preparation. He found little. The large Michie & Co. in Toronto “who furnish tourists with anything from a motor launch to a box of candy” wrote back to him giving him some idea, but as he hadn 't been explicit enough, the details were insufficient. So he and his team had to wing it a bit. Once up in the Muskokas he noted how some rivers were of an “ugly color” due to the “immense tanneries”, not all that healthy for the fish.

Polymorphic Markers in Sailfin Molly at the STR5 Loci Introduction The purpose of this laboratory report is the explain and analyze the process used to determine the heterozygosity and the allele frequency of the SFMSTR5 loci in Sailfin molly, or Poecilia latipinna. Sailfin molly are a species of fish that inhabit fresh and saltwater bodies of water from South Carolina to Texas. The Sailfin molly examined in this experiment were collected from two different locations in Florida. The fish collected in one location are classified as a single population and the fish collected in the second location are classified as a second population.

Unfortunately, we were unable to determine what this species was, but it was very

The nematode or roundworm is a parasitic multicellular organism which inhabits a diverse range of environments including mountains, deserts and oceans. This ecology based seminar was about nematodes predominantly inhabiting bio crusts and desert landscapes and the research that was done by a grad student in the Mohave desert. Topics that were covered were the introduction of the love triangle (aka the study system), the landscape side of the relationship, bio crust side of the relationship, and finally the nematode side of the relationship. To begin, integrative studies were discussed which allow a holistic understanding of ecosystems. Landforms are the natural shapes or features of the earth's surface formed over time.

These animals were appearing for the first time. Another creature that also appears is the stromatoporoids, guessed to be a sponge-like organism. An increase in the amount of micro-plankton caused an increase in the number and diversity of filter feeders. The lophophorates

The tide pools were filled with hermit crabs, sea anemones, and crabs. They were all very cool to observe . The thing that made my trip scientific was that I got to observe sea life up close. I got to see different types of sea life in a variety of different tide pools. In the picture above you can see one of the many crabs me and my dad saw in a tide pool.

On the trip with SWEEP the health of the Susquehanna River was studied. In order to do that, chemical test, biological tests, and physical observations were made. Chemical testing showed the more scientific side of water quality, such as the amount of nitrates, phosphates, the pH values, temperature, dissolved oxygen, and turbidity. Searching for macroinvertebrates was the biological testing. Certain macroinvertebrates and the quantity found determines how healthy the stream is.

The newts and other native animals in the lake now have to compete with the crayfish for food, crayfish have even been known to kill newts at times. The park’s aquatic biologist, Mark Buktenica, says "You can hardly turn a rock over without finding a juvenile or adult crayfish. " Scientists and researchers are trying to quickly find a way to install barriers that wouldn’t be visible to park visitors, but will keep the crayfish separate from the native

When we think of creatures living in sewer systems, furry, four-legged rats immediately spring to mind. News has, however, surfaced that there might be another creature living in the underground sewer systems of North Carolina – a strange, unknown creature that has biologists baffled. A local North Carolina newspaper reported on a group of “unknown alien life forms” found growing in a North Carolina sewer.

One container held only crayfish, another snails, and the last one had everything else. Crayfish and snails are in separate containers from the rest because the smaller macroinvertebrates, like Mayfly larvae and Caddisfly larvae, would hide on the crayfish and snails. After about two hours of collecting, I began to identify and count all of the macroinvertebrates I collected using a macroinvertebrate identification guide. I released all the macroinvertebrate back into the stream. I measured the length and width of the site and recorded that into my data sheet.

The pH scale is a scale that is used to read weather a substance is basic or acidic. It also has different levels of how basic or how acidic said substance can be. the scale has a range of numbers from zero to fourteen. Acidity goes from the numbers zero to six, with zero being the highest level of acidity and six being the lowest.

About 85% of all animals on the planet are part of the scientific group called Arthropods. Some Arthropods are shrimp, crayfish, krill, barnacles, scorpions, spiders, insects, centipedes, mites, ticks, lobsters and crabs. You can tell that an animal is an arthropod because all arthropods have more than one body segment , a body segment is a body part like the abdomen like a whale for example a whale has one solid body that is not split into separate parts. This means that they have a body made up of more than one section, flies have three separate body sections . Another way you can separate animals and arthropods is that they can have many legs the average spider has six legs and a millipede has lots of legs up to thousands!

Eek! A shrill sounded through the air. Everyone turned to look at what the commotion was right as the camera snapped the photo. As I looked to the right, I saw my brother, Zak was the one who screamed and there was something emerging from out of the shell that he was holding. In June of 2013, my family had decided we were going to St. Petersburg, Florida for vacation.

Osvaldo Sandoval second semester glpo My second semester was a great year my grades didn 't start off too well but eventually I got all my stuff together and made one heck of a comeback. I started off with a gpa that I wasn 't proud of but I ended with a lot higher of grades. I realised that many things contributed to this and one was the history project we did about ww2. It involved me and a group of my classmates to study someone who was part of world war 2.

Six of seven species of sea turtles (Chelonioidea) are listed as either vulnerable or endangered by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The largest contributors to the decline seen in sea turtle populations are people, this being due to human activities such as fishing, tourism, shipping, industrial production, and coastal development, which have been scientifically proven to impact all seven species of sea turtles. Plastic pollution found in and around the ocean, light pollution along coastlines, and fishing are three of the main ways in which human activity impacts sea turtle populations. Sea turtles, also known as marine turtles, spend most of their life in the ocean, but they are found on land during their terrestrial birth process that involves laying their eggs in the sand; the vulnerable