Posts Tagged ‘Montana’
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 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.
Read Wyoming Educational Benthic Macroinvertebrate Project
Tags: aquatic insects, benthic, Dytiscus, Education, macroinvertebrate, Montana, Niobrara Conservation District, pictures, WACD, Wyoming, Wyoming Association of Conservation Districts
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