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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

DTM 9 help



Lapse rate is 6.49 oC/ 1000m.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

lab tests for wqi

TSS test


  1. Go to Dr. Lee's room and mass your filter paper
  2. Run 1 liter of water through filter funnel
  3. put filter paper in drying oven
  4. remass filterpaper tomorrow
BOD Test (wed) (when we get back from wwtp)
  1. take sample out of fridge
  2. Let sample warm to room temp
  3. Measure sample temp
  4. Bubble o2 into sample for 5 minutes
  5. transfer sample into glass BOD bottle (we will do a 5 day test for this)
  6. take DO of non BOD sample to use as a baseline

Labwrite

Work on writing lab report




Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Presentation Schedule

Thursday

  1. Pharmaceuticals
  2. DDT
  3. Neonicotinamide
  4. oil
Friday
  1. Lead
  2. Arsenic
  3. sedimentation
  4. Perchlorate
  5. Acid deposition
Monday

  1. Coal Ash
  2. PCB
  3. Mercury
  4. Floating Plastic
  5. PBDE

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Water pollution presentations


Powerpoint presentation

Slides to include

1. What is the pollutant
2. How do Humans create the issue
3.How does it influence waterways
4. Short term impact
5. Long term impact
6. How do we deal with it
7. Real world example/case study

Azcona, Lisa -Lead
Carroll, Victoria -Arsenic
Corrado, Matthew-Mercury
Daga, Keshav-Acid deposition/Acid mine drainage
Frawley, Colin -DDT
Gabriel, Simon - pharmaceuticals
Healy, Sage- neo-nicotinamide
Joshi, Maithili-perchlorates
Kang, Hyun Taek-PCB
Kioko, Harrison -PBDE
Lehman, Madison M-oil
Lipschutz, Jared-coal ash/slag
Naylor, Harrison-floating plastic
Patel, Brij-sediment
Peck, Merritt- sediment
Plage, Scarlett-floating plastic
Poddar, Ritika-Coal ash/Slag
Ransegnola, Monica-Oil
Raza, Syed-PDBE
Reyes, Eva- PCB
Robertson, Jane Campbell-perchlorates
Rothstein, Jessica-Neo-nicotinamide
Sawyer, John-Pharmaceuticals
Smallzman, Ben-DDT
Stanley, Robert-Acid deposition/Acid mine drainage
Tobias, Brian-Mercury
Waters, Eileen-Arsnic
Zheng, Edward-Lead