Water Quality B/C

Competition Results · Post by **mnstrviola** » September 19th, 2012, 7:16 pm

At states we had to do stuff like habitat, indicator factor/stability thing and also larvae identification. It was about 20% of the test.

fozendog · Post by **fozendog** » September 20th, 2012, 3:18 pm

Yea and it nats. they had the real macros there and you had to identify them with a microscope. Will organisms be included from estuaries this year?

fanjiatian · Post by **fanjiatian** » September 22nd, 2012, 7:03 am

Proficiency in DP Freshwaters would definitely be useful.
Then all you'd need to learn is some aquatic biology.

CulturallyScientific · September 22nd, 2012, 6:00 pm

fozendog wrote:Yea and it nats. they had the real macros there and you had to identify them with a microscope. Will organisms be included from estuaries this year?

If you read the new rules, they're pretty much exactly the same-- the macros haven't changed at all, so no new estuary macros.

fozendog · Post by **fozendog** » September 22nd, 2012, 6:16 pm

CulturallyScientific wrote:
fozendog wrote:Yea and it nats. they had the real macros there and you had to identify them with a microscope. Will organisms be included from estuaries this year?
If you read the new rules, they're pretty much exactly the same-- the macros haven't changed at all, so no new estuary macros.

Good. I don't want to have to memorize anymore...

fanjiatian · Post by **fanjiatian** » September 26th, 2012, 4:41 pm

I'm probably missing something, but I don't see anything new in this year's rules. What new stuff is there?
The rules have in bold "estuary scenarios". What does that mean?

cupcakegirl · Post by **cupcakegirl** » September 27th, 2012, 1:19 pm

Well if you remember last year, everything was for freshwater only. This year, I think it means you will need to know how everything is different for estuaries. Also, sometimes there were questions about evaluating a freshwater environment, so this year there could be questions about evaluating freshwater and estuaries.

ptkid · Post by **ptkid** » October 10th, 2012, 6:31 pm

Can someone make the Water Quality ID thread again? It would be appreciated.

Post by **sciencegeek999** » October 13th, 2012, 9:05 am

I've never done this event, what exactly do we do in it?
I think I want to try it this year.

rtunnel97 · Post by **rtunnel97** » October 19th, 2012, 7:23 pm

It involves studying water quality indicators and how they determine the different organisms that might live in these environments. This event is highly focused on ecology of freshwaters but the addition of estuaries involves salt water. There is a portion of this event that requires making a salinometer, a device that measures salinity. There is also a macro organism identification portion of this event.

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