Archive for the ‘Monitoring Methods’ Category

Yellowstone River Oil Spill- Redeux

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

Well, you may have noticed that I have not said anything about the Yellowstone River Oil Spill since our original entry. Yet, in truth, we have been busily working on the project in-house.  The experience has not been all-together positive; quite the contrary. This entry deals with how the public loses because of bureaucracy; bureaucracy […]

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Biological Monitoring Covariates

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

When monitoring environmental impacts of anthropogenic activities, it is useful to collect ancillary data to use as covariates. These variables can help account for natural variation in the communities studies, which helps prevent their confounding of observations. In our work with benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages, we always collect flow measures for this purpose (near-substrate flow measures […]

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Aquatic Insect Identifications

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Identification of macroinvertebrate samples from Sublette County, WY is progressing at faster pace with the addition of Esmeralda to our team.  She is a meticulous sorter and has a sorting efficiency of 97-100%!  This is impressive to me because, some of the other companies I have worked for have the sorters strive for 90%.  The […]

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