I have spent the last week collecting water samples and testing them in the lab. I have been on the hunt for copper now for awhile. Last Friday Dr. Woodal, Skyler, Erin and I went out on the class boat on the Tomoka River to collect water samples. We collected samples along the river, near the shore, on the north and south side of the river, both sides of the fork. All in all I ended up with 13 samples, due to the poor weather that we encounter I was unable to test my samples in the field
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| Me collecting the sample that contained copper |
. We also drove over to the Tomoka River State park and I sampled there as well. Once we got back to the lab I started testing my samples, when I was almost done testing my samples and turning up with no results my second to last sample I was finding no copper, But on my second to last sample I found some copper. I have never been more excited during this project then when I found the copper. So over the weekend I went back to the park where I found the copper on Friday and collected a few more samples. While I was out there I looked for sources of the cooper and the only possible sources could be were the docks where the samples were taking the bridge that was up steam or the men fishing from the bridge.
Did you note in your field book whether there were ebb or flood tides? And what about differences in salinity--did you see any changes that could help to explain why you saw increased concentrations the second time vs the first time?
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