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January 19, 2006 - He'eia Fish Pond - Thermal imaging/salinity studies

 

Students prepare for salinity sampling as Donald Frankel flies overhead with the FLIR (Forward Looking InfraRed) camera for thermal imagine studies.

 

 
Taking sediment core samples to measure the depth of the sediment and the percentage of organic carbon   Vicky is pouring the resulting sample of a plankton tow into a bottle

 

 

 

 
Deploying to take salinity measurements from kayaks   Jonathan deploying a sediment trap

 

 
Retrieving sediment cores   Kristen is counting zooplankton from her plankton tow sample

 

 
Measuring nitrate, ammonia, and phosphate for background nutrient measurements at the Fish Pond

 

Sheila Frankel lectures to local high school students on nutrient measurements and spectrophotometry

 

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