Water Quality B/C

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Personally I loved having the actual specimens at nationals, even though we had the last time slot and many of them were disfigured by then. What I didn't like was having those cloudy plastic pill thingies that obscured the macros and made it really hard to even see them, much less identify them. For the salinometer testing, the saltwater at regionals was in a huge tank and everyone was given their own sample, which is the method I liked the best because I feel like sharing the water just introduces a lot of impurities into it from previous teams (e.g. the salt from their clay dissolving into it) which makes it difficult to be accurate.
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Oh yea those pill things were bad! When we went to ours the girl before us didn't put two back in their labeled container (1, 2, 3, etc.) so we had to guess which one was which.
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Next year's Water Quality event involves Freshwater estuaries.
What do you suppose that means? Lakes?
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fanjiatian wrote:Next year's Water Quality event involves Freshwater estuaries.
What do you suppose that means? Lakes?
An Estuary is any point at which a body of freshwater (usually a stream) meets saltwater (usually an ocean) at a coastal location. Naming it "Freshwater Estuaries" is a little redundant, but this actually had a small importance in the event last year, as the topic may have popped up once or twice in the tests I took. This may have some to do with lakes (that was mostly just DP last year), but I expect that this will have to do with ecology (yay!), different estuaries, specific species, and the effects of humans on estuarine environments.
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So will we have to study things like juvenile salmon and what role estuaries play in the travel of anadromous fish, or more just the basics?
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Fossil Freak 25 wrote:So will we have to study things like juvenile salmon and what role estuaries play in the travel of anadromous fish, or more just the basics?
More then likely, yes. And I'm guessing we will need to know general ecology terms.
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So will it be more ecology based this year? Or the same 3 part thing as last year?
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tornado guy wrote:
Fossil Freak 25 wrote:So will we have to study things like juvenile salmon and what role estuaries play in the travel of anadromous fish, or more just the basics?
More then likely, yes. And I'm guessing we will need to know general ecology terms.
Well, you still had to know general ecology in 2012.
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