Aquatic Field Studies
Making your own gear to monitor aquatic environments offers many different values. Thinking about tools that help in observing calls upon a basic understanding of what you want to observe and how the device you want to make may serve the purpose. This involves exploring how others may have conducted similar studies. The design, building, testing then, redesign and rebuilding retesting serve to engage all the participants, build collaboration and share in the related successes and failures.
Collaborations often involve others outside the school setting and may extend over a period of years. Our long-term analysis show that these activities have similar long-term positive impacts.
These pages show how to make a number of different tools Experiential Science projects tools
Aquatic
The Chart below outlines many of aquatic studies
Making your own gear to monitor aquatic environments offers many different values. Thinking about tools that help in observing calls upon a basic understanding of what you want to observe and how the device you want to make may serve the purpose. This involves exploring how others may have conducted similar studies. The design, building, testing then, redesign and rebuilding retesting serve to engage all the participants, build collaboration and share in the related successes and failures.
Collaborations often involve others outside the school setting and may extend over a period of years. Our long-term analysis show that these activities have similar long-term positive impacts.
These pages show how to make a number of different tools Experiential Science projects tools
Aquatic
- Schuber samplers
- V notch weir
- Flow meters
- Aquatic invert key
- Sucker-uppers
- Diatom Key
- Stream flow dynamics tables
- Paleoliminology, under ice sampling gear
The Chart below outlines many of aquatic studies