Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Albuquerque 2001

SS28 Innovative Approaches for Linking Science and Society Through Education (Science and Society Connections)

Date: Friday, February 16, 2001, Time: 10:30:00 AM

Location: La Cienega

Salinas, J, T, ROGUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, GRANTS PASS, USA, jsalinas@rogue.cc.or.us

US FOREST SERVICE COOPERATING PARTNERSHIP WITH ROGUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, OREGON, USA: SIX YEARS OF STREAM SURVEY AND LAKE MONITORING

US Forest Service hydrologists and fishery biologists are cooperating with faculty and students at a neighboring community college. Cooperation includes both planning aquatic science projects and sharing monetary resources. Students connect educationally with professional hydrologists and biologists to inventory streams and lakes for chemical, biological, and physical attributes. Stream surveys incorporate the USFS Levels one, two and three protocols as written in the western stream survey handbook. These protocols provide a method for surveying and recording the geomorphologic characteristics of streams. Lake monitoring includes profiling for temperature, pH, oxygen, turbidity, conductivity, four bandwidths of solar radiation and primary productivity. Grab samples are collected for zooplankton, phytoplankton, chlorophyll determinations and benthic invertebrate and macrophyte identification. Students take part in each facet of the summer’s aquatic research and learn both the methods employed in this special work and how professionals organize each study. Students attend pre-project planning sessions as well as post-project review meetings. Reports are generated by students and used by the cooperating professionals in strategic planning. Students are paid and receive cooperative work-study credit for their involvement.

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