By Emily Williams
This final week at UWF was full of different activities that
made this week very memorable. Despite the rainy forecast the majority of the
week, we made the best out of it and continued with our planned activities. We traveled
to many locations around Pensacola including carpenter creek and Bayou Texar to
collect water quality samples. It was very interesting learning the correlation
of total suspended solids, nutrients, and chlorophyll a as you move through the
watershed (from the start of the creek to the bayou). We also saw the horrible effects
of building on a riparian zone and of hardening surfaces. At the first site on carpenter
creek, cement was used in order to try to prevent erosion but this project was
failing because where the cement ended, the landscape was rilling away and
eroding very fast. We also learned about the natural event of fish deaths due
to Bayou Texar’s water stratification and hypoxia in the summertime. Another interesting
experience this week was learning beach geomorphology and using the engineer's level
to map out the dunes.
Me holding a meter stick for a classmate reading out of the engineer's level to map the beach |
Us on the hardened surface at a site along Carpenter Creek |
This week was amazing in concluding this class. Overall this class was such an amazing experience that has taught me so much about the different environments around Florida, organisms within those environments, and techniques to study these organisms and ecosystems. This class also introduced me to the many jobs and opportunities out there that sparked my interest. I am excited to start research within the next year and I think this class has prepared me for some of the classes and research methods to come. Thank you to everyone who made this class possible. This class has made a difference in my life and I am sure many others feel the same way.
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