Dylan Radford UR, Tomoka River Andventure!

I had a great time at our last class session. This week it was my teams turn to get out on the boat in the Tomoka River. I had been looking forward to this field trip for a while and was really excited to get out there. Even though it was cold and windy I still had a good time because of all of the new equipment I was exposed to. While we were on the boat my team and I were able to use a YSI85. This device measures things like dissolved oxygen, salinity, temperature and conductivity. My team were only going to test the first three out of that list. We also got to use a Hack PH Meter, a Vandoren water sampler, a Secchi disc, and a Hack Colorimeter. I thought it was really fun to learn how to use all of these different scientific instruments.
     After the team and I got all of our information from each site we had to choose what graph we were going to make with the information that we collected. We all needed to make graphs of different information so I choose to see how the temperature of the water at the U.S.1 bridge compared to the temperature of the last site which was located near the mouth of the river. After I had created my graph I got some pretty cool results. I could see with the line graph that I had made that the temperature at the U.S.1 bridge was almost 2 degrees Celsius above the temperature at site number four, near the mouth of the river. I had a lot of fun out on the boat last week and I cant wait for this upcoming field trip. I have my wetsuit ready to go!