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Troubled Skies Troubled Waters

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Troubled Skies Troubled Waters

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    1. Troubled Skies Troubled Waters What are the effects of acid rain in the metropolitan New York area…New York City, Brooklyn, and Ridgefield, Connecticut? How does the rain in each area have an impact on the health of a lake (marine ecosystem)?

    3. Eco Thought

    4. Winds Carry Gases 105 Miles from the power plant….

    5. Sulfur and nitrogen oxide enter the atmosphere and team up with H2O to produce: sulfuric and nitric acid

    6. “Acid Rain” falls on these lakes:

    8. Is “Acid Rain” Only Wet?

    9. The “IMPACT” OF ……..

    10.

    11. Procedure

    12. Procedure…….(cont.) With access to 3 lakes… New York City, Brooklyn, and Ridgefield, Connecticut Collect 3 (1 liter) samples from each lake…using a closable container to scoop the water from the surface… Repeat the procedure in each lake…keeping the collection process consistent Cap each collection sample and label Return with samples to home lab

    13. Procedure…(cont.) Set up the “plankton collection net” Pour water out of each 1 liter container …using the 3 samples collected for each lake Establish the pH of each lake Completing the collection process, after the water from Lake 1 is processed, (collection tube is filled with plankton) distribute the contents into 3 (100ml) beakers…top off with distilled water if needed …to reach top of beaker Repeat process on water from Lake 2 & 3

    14. Procedure (cont.) There are now 9 samples of plankton filled water ( 3 from each lake) Using a pipette to put a .1 ml drop of each sample on a slide after gently stirring the water…cover with cover slip…and put Under a compound microscope Using a plankton identification guide Count and score each algae identified using the Palmer Pollution Index

    15. Procedure

    16. Needed for Plankton Identification

    17. Palmer Pollution Index

    19. Palmer Scores…… Palmer, C. Mervin. 1969. A composite rating of algae tolerating organic pollution. Journal of Phycology. 5 (1): 78-82

    21. Precipitation Samples & pH Levels

    22. 3 Lakes….3 pH Levels

    29. If I were to do this experiment again:

    38. Works Cited Books Boyle, Robert H. Acid Rain, New York: Random House, April, 1993 Dashefsky, H. Environmental Science. New York: McGraw-Hill,1994 Edmonds, Alex. A Closer Look At Acid Rain, Brookfield, Ct.: Copper Beech Books, l997 Luoma, Jon. Troubled Skies, Troubled Waters: The Story of Acid Rain. New York: Viking Press (Adult), January, 1984 Morgan, S. Acid Rain, Boston: Grolier Publishing, 1999 Parks, Peggy, J. Acid Rain, Farmington, Michigan: Kid Haven Press, May, 2006 Tyson, Peter, Acid Rain-Earth At Risk, New York: Chelsea House Publications, February, l992 Encyclopedia Banister, Keith. Campbell, Andrew, “Drifters and Wanderers…The Ecology of Plankton.” The Encyclopedia of Aquatic Life, 1985.

    39. Works Cited (cont.) Journals Cairns, J., “Algae as Indicators of Environmental Change”, Journal of Applied Phycology, vol. 6, Numbers 5-6, December, l994. Jafari, N. G. “Assessment of a freshwater pollution index using Palmer And Niggard’s indices with special reference to phytoplankton”, International Journal on Algae, vol. 8, Issue 2, 2006. Palmer, Mervin. “A composite rating of algae tolerating organic Pollution”, Journal of Phycology and International Journal of Algal Research, vol. 5, Issue 1, March, 1969.

    40. Works Cited (cont.) Magazine Articles Bono, “Al Gore, The Former Vice President, now a Nobel laureate, has become America’s environmental conscience”, Time Jan. 2008, 96-98. Scherer, Glenn, “The Ecology of Trail Lands, Part 3: A Dirty, Deadly, Rain is a Fallin’…Air Pollution Over American Trails, American Hiker: October 10, 2000 Studies Boylen, Sutherland, Bloomfield, “Phytoplankton Species vs pH”, The Adirondack Effects Assessment Program, Polytechnic Institute & Bureau of Watershed Assessment, May, l992. Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, “Acid Rain…sources and Effects in Connecticut, New Haven: January, 1983. Howard, H. H. Phytoplankton Studies of Adirondack Mountain Lakes, Skidmore College, Saratoga, Springs, N.Y: October, 1968. Sexton, M. Comparative Lake Study of 5 Lakes in the Adirondack Region, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, August, 1995.

    41. Works Cited (cont.) Website or Webpage Algaebase (culture collection of algae and protozoa), January, 2008 www.algaebase.org Environment Canada, Acid Rain FAQ, http://www.atl.ec.gc.ca/msc/as/acidfaq.html Environment Canada, Acid Rain and the Facts, www.ec.gc.ca Environmental Education & Outdoor Monitoring Products, What are you testing? http://www.lamotte.com/pages/edu/project.html Plankton Net…Project: Make Your Own Plankton Net: http:www.biosci.ohiou.edu/faculty/currie/ocean/makeanet.htm

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