My old River Continuum Concepts webpage was published in 2007. It was originally hosted by a small-town local web hosting service. Unfortunately, the host is no longer in business, and the webpage has been lost, along with all the beautiful invertebrate photographs I had stored on the server. Fortunately, many of them were backed up on another server.
The old page was problematic; I always felt that it needed to be reworked. So, I now have the opportunity to make the page more friendly. Unfortunately, the content will slowly trickle in for a while and be sparse. I humbly apologize to those of you who encountered the 404 Error while looking for the old page.
So, let me start with this photograph. The most labor-intensive phase of processing benthic macroinvertebrate samples is the sorting phase (aka bug-picking), during which invertebrates are sorted from the sand and detritus one tiny aliquot at a time. We often find "interesting" things in samples. For example, during the 1990s, while processing samples from a Philadelphia urban streams project, we found spent .357 caliber casings, condoms, combs, screws, sunglasses, bubble gum, aluminum foil, and hypodermic needles (the stream was near a hospital) in benthic samples. Everything eventually ends up in the water. While sampling small streams in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming, we found tiny fossils (pictured) among the inorganic sample constituents. These were the remnants of long-gone echinoderms from eroded sedimentary rocks.
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