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Amy_Clapp
Joined: 23 Mar 2004
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Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:01 pm |
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Water Data Sheet
1. Date of Test: 4 June 2004
2. Time of Test: 9:45 am
3. Name of aquatic site or description of where it is located:
Lena River at Zhigansk, Sakha Republic, Russia
4. Latitude_66 degrees 45.98’ North Longitude__123 degrees 23.13’ East
5. Type of water: _____lake ___X__river _____other (explain)
6. Color of the water:
_____clear
__X___tea-colored
_____oily
_____cloudy
_____muddy
_____black
_____foamy
_____rusty
_____green
_____gray
___X__brown
7. Classify your site:
__X___rural
_____suburban
_____urban
_____nature preserve
_____other (explain)
8. What is within 10 meters of the water’s edge?
_____concrete
__X__soil
_____trees
__X___rocks
_____other vegetation
_____other (explain)
9. What land uses do you see around the study area?
_____roads
_____mining
__X___forests
_____discharge pipes
_____industry
__X___houses
_____recreation area
_____businesses
__X___schools
_____farms
__X___landfills
How would any of the land uses that you checked above impact the watershed?-
The land uses that we see in Zhigansk probably don’t impact the chemistry of the water that we’re sampling, but upstream impacts from larger cities (such as Yakusk) may.
10. What kinds of plants/trees do you see around the site? Describe them.
In the immediate vicinity of where we sampled from shore, there is very little vegetation (just a bit of some kind of grass). But a bit farther from shore, there are extensive forests of larch (we think).
11. Weather Observations:
Air Temperature:__6.3 degrees C___
Water Temperature:__1.8 degrees C___
Sky Conditions (circle): *_clear_* partly cloudy cloudy
Description, type, or drawing of any clouds present:
Current Precipitation: __X__none type_________________________
Precipitation within the past 24 hours: __X___none type________________
Wind speed (circle): calm, *_gentle breeze_*, moderate breeze, strong breeze, gale, storm, hurricane.
12. pH circle one 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 *_8_* 9 10 11 12 13 14
13. Current Speed:__about 300___cm/sec
14. Dissolved Oxygen-O_2 (use tablets) - high
15. Phosphate (use tablets) - very low
16. Nitrate (use tablets) – very low |
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