Posts for tag "sampling"
Research and Conservation: Understanding the “Outsized Influence” of Intermittent Streams
It’s a chilly winter’s day in northwest Arkansas, and several University of Arkansas students trudge to an intermittent stream frozen over with a layer of ice. They bring normal water quality sampling equipment with them, and something...
- Posted October 15, 2025
Crowdsourcing Science and Curiosity Along the Middle Cedar River
Armed with smartphones, test strips, and sample containers, citizen scientists are testing water for nitrates in Iowa, and assisting researchers in the process.
- Posted May 3, 2018
Flood Chasers Monitor Water Quality in a New Way
A team of flood chasers are monitoring water quality in an Australian estuary, and putting new automated tools to work in the process.
- Posted March 27, 2018
Road salt runoff flowing into streams near Cornell approaches ocean-like salinity
Researchers at Cornell have found that road salt runoff flowing into streams near campus reaches salinity levels on par with the ocean.
- Posted April 14, 2015
Friday Follow-up: Sampling aquatic insects in Glacier National Park
Last December, I talked to USGS aquatic entomologist Joe Giersch about his work tracking down the western glacier stonefly, an incredibly rare insect that lives only in the cold, glacier-fed streams of Glacier National Park. Those bug...
- Posted February 20, 2015
