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Here’s a great diagram of the water spider that we found today.
Thanks, Vanessa!

Well, I just LOVE the lab. It was a crazy and fun day. You ALL were amazing and if this is what it’s going to be like for me to teach school some day… I’ll never retire. I’ll be that nutty, old lady teacher jumping around the classroom 30 years from now.

Vanessa-great diagram of the water spider and nematodes. You got it dead on.

Hector- I love our conversation at the Zoology case. I love looking at that stuff and it was cool that you did too.

Terrell- Man, you had the hardest plate to count and you really stood up to the challenge. All that bacteria is really important to our research and we can look at it tomorrow on the chart.

Greg- You were so patient with the bacteria slide you were staining. That is tough stuff. Thanks for making John take everyone down to the river. He said you guys saw someone testing the water with a probe.

Devante-You were a master of those microscopes. Nice work

OK-why do we love Sharpies????

I found this on the internet. This is Charlotte from 1943. How many things can you notice that are DIFFERENT from now?

So far I can only get pictures from one palm pilot. I will have to ask for help at the University today.

What a great day. John, Catherine and I couldn’t stop talking about how much fun you all were today. We learned so much mucking around the beach.

Things like…
the beach was closed today because of very high bacteria levels
there was A LOT of algae, enough to get stuck in!
it was really stinky with all that decomposing algae and bacteria
it looked worse near the pier and very different in the river
and we learned so much about water density and surface tension

It was really neat reading your journals and it seems like you are all pretty interested in knowing where the algae and bacteria comes from and how to get rid of it. So, Tuesday that is what we will try to find out. We have cool instruments to read water quality measurements, GPS to record out location and of course the Palms to record the data we collect We’ll all become experts on that tomorrow as well as start our scientific experiment.

If you have a little time, check out this site from the Rochester Museum and Science Center. It talks about Lake Ontario Beaches:

http://www.rmsc.org/communitylearning/partners/wec/faq/answers.htm

This is a satellite picture of the Rochester shoreline by
Anthony Vodacek
Center for Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology

All the neon green is algae.

Hey all! John, Catherine and I have some great stuff planned for tomorrow. We’re starting right away with some time on the Beach!

Can anyone guess what the picture is?
Hints… it is something we’ll find at the beach and the picture is magnified 10000 times!

Heather

In exactly 12 hours, we are scheduled to get off the bus at the beach! The weatherman says it is going to be a great day to be out and Heather, Catherine and I have some cool stuff planned for us all. So get some rest and we will see you in the morning. JVN