Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category
Monday, August 10th, 2015

We moved into our new laboratory in March 2015 and it is Great! We have a conference / meeting room available for classes and public meetings, our standard laboratory space, and an ecological library /study area where the magic happens! Current Projects include: Sabine River, Texas Yellowstone National Park Baseline Monitoring, Sublette County (WY), Baseline Water […]
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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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Tags: aquatic insects, benthic macroinvertebrates, Billings, ecological, ecology, environmental Monitoring, Exxon, ExxonMoble, impacts, Laurel, macroinvertebrates, Montana, montana Aquatic Insects, oil spill
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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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Tags: Analysis, aquatic insects, benthic macroinvertebrates, bioassessment, biological monitoring, covariates, ecological monitoring, holston river, Montana, Moss, Tennessee
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
Time for a sort post; please forgive the mushiness I’m short of technical material. I Just got back from my Holston River Survey with the Academy of Natural Sciences. It was great to see the Holston River again; the invertebrates are especially diverse and familiar–just like old friends. Speaking of old friends, the rest of […]
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Thursday, July 1st, 2010
If you are interested in attaining a copy of the document, post a comment here so I can gauge community interest in these wonderful aquatic insect pictures.
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Tags: aquatic insects, benthic, Dytiscus, Education, macroinvertebrate, Montana, Niobrara Conservation District, pictures, WACD, Wyoming, Wyoming Association of Conservation Districts
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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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Tags: bioassessment, insects, laboratory processing, macroinvertebrates, Quality assurance, sample identification, Taxonomy
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