Skyping with Norwich University Students

 

  We have been working for several weeks now with students from the Norwich University Environmental Studies class.

They have been helping us with our water studies, running water tests for students that we can't do here at school.

We have been Skyping with them...

 and they came to visit us on November 12th, to take a look at our river, show us how to take flow rate measurements, and answer our questions.

Using Digital Probes for Water Tests

 Students have been using digital water test devices at the river.  These Vernier test devices allow us to view, collect, and analyze data from our studies.

This equipment was purchased with a grant from VSAC.  Thank you  VSAC.

Macro-Invertebrate Studies

We have been bringing our classes down to the river once a week for the last 3 or 4 weeks.

The weather has been warm and pleasant, and the water level has been low enough for the students to wade across.

 We recently did a macroinvertebrate study where the students took a tally of all the different macroinvertebrates they found.  It is a way to measure the health of the river.

   Lots of Caddisfly and Mayfly larvae means low pollution levels. We found pretty high numbers.

We will keep this data and compare it to future data at different locations, or different times of the year.

We have been taking our students to the River. While there, we have been exploring the riverbank to look for evidence of wild life, erosion, pollution, etc.

Click this link to see a short video

Sleepers River Studies

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/DZyZ4BgTkzs

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Video of Sleeper's River  - June 2014

June 2014

Sleeper's River Bank Photos