Final Week UNF

This week has been just as busy as the rest!
We started the week with a river cruise taking water quality samples and data at four different stations. We cruised up the St. Johns river about 20 miles. I have never seen a river with so much industrial development on it's banks. The banks were littered with phosphorous processing plants, dry docks where they paint and restore ships, other shipyards, a cruise ship port, and bright green highly sloped yards. All of these are significant sources of pollution.

Downtown portion of the river, and our catamaran the Osprey.

We stopped at four different sampling stations on the way back down the river. At these stations we took a water sample for analyzing in the lab, we did a plankton tow, and took water quality parameters.

Doing water quality and taking samples.

Ken and Kierstin collecting the plankton