Tag archives for water quality
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Seeing the photos from the record-breaking algal bloom on Lake Erie in 2011 was like déjà vu for me. I grew up in the Great Lakes region in the 1960s and 1970s and remember the days when Lake Erie was declared “dead.” I later learned that the green scum that plagued the lake during summer…
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Text and Photos by Gloria Dawson Riverkeeper’s patrol boat glides along Newtown Creek in New York City. Like a cruise ship captain leading a voyage through environmental hell, Phillip Musegaas points out oil slicks, the sewage treatment plant, and the huge pipes where raw sewage flows into the creek every time it rains. He notes…
Counting Water Bugs for Rocky Mountain BioBlitz
Posted by Sandra Postel of National Geographic's Freshwater Initiative in Water Currents on August 25, 2012 Tiny bugs called macro-invertebrates help make freshwater ecosystems tick, and as a team of volunteers found out at Lily Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park, they’re diverse, abundant and just plain cool little creatures. Rachel Harrington, a freshwater ecologist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado, led the BioBlitz volunteers in identifying the water…
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We recently covered the expedition to Peru by the Amazon Center for Environmental Education and Research (ACEER) to measure water quality along the new Transoceanic Highway, which will cross South America from east to west when finished. The ACEER team has been using stream surveys and leaf packs developed by the Stroud Water Research…
