Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Plankton

Plankton is any wandering organism that lives in water such as: oceans, seas, and bodies of fresh water. They are understood to be some of the most important organisms on Earth, due to the food they provide to most aquatic life. Also the reason why we study plankton is because there are a lot of different types of plankton that we still have not discovered yet.

I was at Kihei Boat Ramp and Ho'okipa on Maui, HI trying to find out the most abundant color in my two locations. When we went out to both locations we took some sample of plankton with the plankton net and also figured out the temperature, salinity, turbidity, cloud cover, and precipitation.

After collecting and testing all of our samples our group found out that the most abundant color in Kihei Boat Ramp is clear. And we also found out that the most abundant color in Ho'okipa is black.


The graph of our results.


Dakota figuring out the salinity with the handheld refractometer.


Travis putting the plankton sample into our water bottle.


Tammy recording all of our data down for our plankton lab.

3 comments:

Mr. Marggraf said...

Great blog Tammy. This is just what we're after. I'm looking forward to seeing your intertidal entry.

Shanti said...

Good:
I like all your pictures and details.

Bad:
You should be careful putting personal info because someone could come to the school and kidnap you.

Kihei Science Class said...

You had a graph and and three pictures. dat is good for what we need. There was alot of good information to.

You have to figure out other visuals to use for the next blog.