What Does Water Testing Tell Us about Water Quality?
Students test water from multiple locations on the Potomac River for dissolved oxygen, nitrates, phosphates, pH levels, salinity, and turbidity. What do these tests tell us about the health of the river? Related videos on…
What Do Land Use and Bird Species Tell Us about the Health of the Potomac River?
Join students and educators from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation as they assess the health of the Potomac River based on land use and observed bird species. Additional videos on water testing and a species diversity are rec…
How Do Land Use, Physical Parameters, and Benthic Surveys Measure the Health of a Stream?
Looking at multiple factors (water quality testing, macroinvertebrates, and land use), students assess the health of the Davis Branch Stream in Howard County, Maryland. The impact of land use, in particular, is a complex …
Species Diversity and River Quality
In this video, students look at species diversity in the Potomac River in order to assess the health of the river. Students may want to use the documents on this page as they view the species in the video. Related Spar…