Bloom filter

Lake Erie’s Toxic Algal Bloom Name: Violet Landrum “Nobody adores fertilizer. Nobody devotes their life to fertilizer (unless they own a fertilizer company). But, you need it to grow the crops. The land is arid and dry without it, and trying to grow things is likely to be futile.” - Shellen Lubin. According to a paper written in Science, the ocean has lost roughly 77 billion tons of oxygen in the last 50 years, being up to nearly 2% of its waters (USA today). Algal blooms have been a straining…

Golfers often have a love-hate relationship with water features. Depending on your lie, they can be diabolical hazards or attractive landscape features. No matter how you choose to view them, streams, wetlands, ponds and lakes are integral components of many golf courses that serve a number of important functions; they provide water for irrigation, mitigate flooding by holding stormwater and can serve as important design features. Water features are rich, complex, living ecosystems that provide…

1. Legal aspects A. The first question to analyze is whether Blooms Inc. has consent to collect the data of customers under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). According to Article 7(1) GDPR, the fundamental condition for the data processing based on consent is the ability of the data’s controller to demonstrate that the data subject (i.e. the customer) has consented to the processing of his or her personal data. In the present case, the customers, namely Steven and John, freely and…

Polluted runoff is water from rain or melting snow that runs across the paved land instead of seeping into the ground and being filtered naturally. It happens with the water that flows off of our streets, parking lots, and building rooftops and it picks up all kinds of hazardous waste like pet waste, debris, manure, pesticides, oil, and automotive fluids. If the runoff is poorly treated or untreated, it negatively affects the water quality and the aquatic life in the local streams, then the…

when studying the bloom dynamics of Heterosigma over the years. In the graphs presented below figureX and figureX the same trend can be observed. In all the plots it can be seen that not always a bloom starts with drop in salinity due to freshwater runoff. But the opposite was observed in the field. Whenever there was drop in temperature and dissolved oxygen which usually means upwelling and if it was coincided with freshwater runoff, there would definitely be a plankton bloom either harmful…

the Chesapeake’s fisheries, approximately one-third of the nation’s blue crab harvest grows from the Bay. Commercial oyster businesses hire thousands to catch, sell, shuck, and ship them. Oysters also help recover the water quality because they are filter feeders. An individual adult oyster can pump 50 gallons of water a day, which purifies out chemicals, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediments. Both blue crabs and oysters are degrading because of the Chesapeake Bay’s poor water quality (Pelton pg…

bag and hold it against a person's skin, if the person was lighter or the same color as the bag they would pass the test and if their skin was not lighter than a brown paper bag they failed the test (Pilgrim,2014)3. As the civil rights era began to bloom African Americans realized that regardless of their skin tones they would be subjected to discrimination, belittling, and being treated like second-class citizens, so the tension that existed between…

Our task was to figure out a way to stop, or decrease, a certain situation that is affecting the water quality of a particular body of water in our neighborhood. The body of water that we will be focusing on today, will be the Foxstone Creek in Vienna Virginia. Although there are many different problems that have occurred in this creek, the problem that we noticed that is the most impactful, is the amount of erosion on the creek. Erosion is the process by which the surface of earth is being…

Trees Trees absorb odours and pollutant gases (nitrogen oxides, ammonia, sulphur dioxide and ozone) and filter particulates out of the air by trapping them on their leaves and bark. An apple tree can yield up to 15-20 bushels of fruit per year and can be planted on the tiniest urban lot. Aside from fruit for humans, trees provide food for birds and wildlife. On hillsides or stream slopes, trees slow water runoff and hold soil in place. Neighbourhoods and homes that are barren have shown to have…

At Farmington Nutrition Counseling, we have many people who come in that are experiencing fall allergies. Ragweed that blooms throughout the autumn months coupled with the falling leaves that become moldy after hitting the ground leave many allergy sufferers experiencing symptoms of allergies. Approximately 10 to 20 percent of those in the United States suffer from fall allergies. Symptoms can include a stuffy or runny nose, sneezing, itchy or watery eyes, coughing and an itchy throat.…