1.) What is your topic?
- Marine Conservation Biology
2.) What is the driving problem behind your experiment and the quote by an expert to support this problem?
- Pollution in the ocean is the driving problem behind my experiment.
- "You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it in one day. That's how negligent we are."- Ian Rankin
3.) What is your hypothesis?
- If the pollution of the boat launch increases due to the anthropogenic activity, then the amount of zooplankton found in a plankton-tow would be less than the outer beach, which doesn't have as much outside pollution acting upon it.
4.) Write a paragraph summary of how you will perform the experiment.
- I would be collecting samples from the docks, and the outer beach, and comparing their salinity levels and the amount of zooplankton that I find.
- First, I'd go out to boat launch and collect data by doing a plankton-tow for Day 1. Then, I would go to the outer beach and collect data for Day 1 by doing a plankton-tow. Lastly, I would bring my data back to the lab, and test the waters using a refractometer, and then use the microscope to compare the amount of zooplankton found in the two different sites.
5.) Project Category
- Chemistry/ Ecology and Environmental Management
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