Stream Sampling-Lower Sites, Fanny Bay
Monthly second site sampling for lower sections of selected streams: Cowie, Apple Cherry, Wilfred, Waterloo, Mud Bay.
Tag: stream health
Flow Monitoring–Transect Wilfred Ck
BWS has sensors installed in several local creeks to record the water level over time. However, water level alone doesn’t tell us much. Several times a year we perform a transect in each of these creeks. A transect involves measuring the velocity of water at twenty different points in the …
Benthic Invertebrate Surveying Launched
There’s something that’s been bugging us. We know quite a bit about our streams. We regularly measure their temperature, turbidity, specific conductance, pH, and oxygen content. When we’re sampling, we take note of frogs or salamanders that cross our path and birds that depend on the creeks for food (a …
Learning to Monitor Benthic Invertebrates
Beaufort Watershed Steward (BWS) co-hosted a recent course with Michelle Jones of the Pacific Streamkeepers Federation, with the goal of establishing a benthic invertebrate monitoring program in our watersheds. Yes, we’re adding a 7th monitoring program! Like me, your first question might be “What are benthic invertebrates?” They are organisms, …