Brittnie-Sampling and Materials

    Today I went to the Port Orange Causeway Park, at low tide, where I took my water samples; it was pretty cloudy out and it rained a little bit, so I’m thinking that the rain diluted my water samples. I chose to sample the Halifax River because I've always noticed how much more turbid the river is compared to the ocean (as you can see by the picture below).

    When I am in Nassau and Freeport Bahamas I will collect multiple pieces of coral that have washed up on the beach, separating them by different types, and then putting them in separate containers. I’ll bring them back to the DSC lab where I will make sure that the coral pieces are all the same size by using a caliper, which is an instrument used to measure external or internal dimensions, and I’ll need an instrument to cut the pieces of coral, to make them all the same size. I will also need something to make the pH (acidity or alkalinity) higher and an instrument to measure the pH of water, like a pH meter. The water will need to be in a set of containers, like test tubes or something a little bigger. Over time, as the coral pieces sit in the different amounts of pH, I will measure the pieces with the caliber and determine which kind of corals will dissolve the fastest, and how fast each coral dissolves in different amounts of pH.

List of Materials Needed:

• Caliper
• pH Meter
• Containers / test tubes?
• Instrument to cut coral pieces
• Something to increase pH