Urban Sites

Last week we met and discussed our proposal with Dr. Entrekin. This was very helpful because we narrowed down many of our objectives as well as the methods that we are performing. We recieved some useful edits to help write our proposal. On Friday we went and visited many of the urban streams that we are going to be sampling from. This concluded visiting all of the streams and now we have been to all of the areas that we will be sampling from. In many of the urban streams there is much signs of human impacts on the streams. The first stream flows under a bridge that is completely channelized and has much rocky substrate added by humans which greatly affects the riparian zone. The second stream is impacted greatly by sediment runoff being located right next to a sports complex and near some large wetlands. The final urban stream is located right next to a golf course and has been channelized by the road running alongside and the golf course on the other side. Also it runs through several culverts and the close proximity to the golf course should result in high fertilizer and pesticide runoff.