Geology
| Monitor what | Why? | How's it monitored now? | Our plan (technical) | How we're an improvement | Cost? People? Maintenance? |
| soil pollution levels from agriculture | adverse effects of such pollutants on humans, crops, water sources, animals possible diseases caused by pollutants this data should be supporting evidence for the ecovillage's idea of promoting agriculture without pesticides |
nanosensing - chemosensors | low maintenance - nanosensors are mostly automated. they are relatively new and probably expensive. | ||
| tracking soil pollutants | important to know when certain pollutants are getting close to water sources, for example limited groundwater supply on islands, it makes sense to protect the little that exists |
nanosensing - chemosensors | see above | ||
| indicator microbe species | when they are under stress, it's a signal that the entire ecosystem is under stress, and that something needs to be done to fix the problem | as of 1997, such data was unavailable, meaning that it's probably not being monitored at all | population counts - field sampling | it's low on other's priorities - we'll be monitoring what others aren't monitoring | the population counts will have to be done by scientists after collecting the soil samples in situ. This requires more maintenance on the part of the scientists, but the equipment is probably less expensive |
| biogeochemical cycles | nitrogen and phosphorus are limiting factors in marine environments. Runoff from fertilizers increases the concentrations, causing algal blooms that blanket over entire bodies of water. This eventually leads to anaerobic decomposition and the death of fish or other marine organisms. This needs to be monitored in both soil and water (runoff) I'm still researching the reasons to monitor the carbon and sulfur cycles; all I know so far is that increased human activity is related to these cycles, but that's not a good reason since there are much easier ways of measuring human impact |
tracers exist to measure quantities of such chemical in the soil. Radioactive glucose is used, and can trace carbon, sulfur, and phosphorus. I will find out more from the senior who told me about it |
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