Niki UR--The ins and outs of the Inlet

 After much consideration I've come to the conclusion that the study of sharks in the Indian River Lagoon isn't a feasible project with the amount of time I have to complete it and the resources currently available to me.
Officially moving on to Idea #2 with a lot of help from Dr. Woodall...

Now my focus shall be to collect water samples from the Indian River Lagoon and Halifax Rivers as they feed in and out of the Ponce Inlet to the ocean There will be a total of four water samples, one from the IRL, one from the Halifax (both during ebb tide), and two from the inlet, one at a flood tide and another at an ebb tide. I will then use a several instruments from the marine science lab at DSC to determine salinity, dissolved oxygen, pH, total nitrate and phosphate, and the Total Suspended Solids. Once I have determined each of these for each site, I will then be able to make a lot of comparisons between the IRL and Halifax River, and one of the main goals is to see if one river carries more nutrients than the other. Samples 3 and 4 will be used to track the difference in movement of nutrients in incoming vs outgoing tides.
I'll be using similar canisters and collection methods from our water sample experiment this week, either off shore or
I'm really interested to see what the results will be!

approximations of site locations, labeled 1 - 4

Some of the materials I will be using:
YSI 85 Oxygen Conductivity Salinity Temperature:  used for (you guessed it) dissolved oxygen, salinity and pH
HACH Calorimiter DR /890: used for total nitrates and phosphates
HACH 2100N Turbidmeter: TSS