Phosphorus

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 ). The seafood industry will eventually crash and the families that it sustains and the money it brings in will go…

The mycrocystin toxin was produced by the blue-green algae in the Lake Erie. Phosphorus load from the Maumee river was the main source of nutrients for the cHAB growth in the lake. Again, the agricultural area of the watershed also contributed for the phosphorus load in the lake. Nitrogen loading also helped in the algae bloom during that period. Remote sensing tool using satellites used for detection of the algae bloom…

Problem What is the aquatic health of the Nequasset lake tributaries as analyzed through chemical and biological parameters as well as physical habitat assessment? What factors, both natural and human-influenced, contribute (positively or negatively) to the health of the Nequasset lake tributaries? Background Information Weather or not we realize it, as people that (presumably) live in the Bath area, the streams that flow into Nequasset are very important to our survival. They are numerous, and…

Imagine, you're walking down the street, and you suddenly lose your breath, you find it impossible to breathe, now you're slowly suffocating and your oxygen has been completely depleted. If this were to happen it would be a terrible scenario and it's a reality for some fish and other marine life in the Gulf of Mexico. The area in the Gulf of Mexico that is noted for oxygen depletion is called the “dead zone”. A dead zone, also known as a hypoxia zone, is an area with little to no dissolved…

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…

Based on the super tracker’s nutrient report analysis, I’ve managed to get my average intake of nutrients for the time period varying from 02/17 to 02/19. My target calorie intake is 2000 calories; however, my intake was below the target amount(1613 calories). Therefore, it’s imperative for me to reach my daily calorie intake in order to receive the full amount of nutrients my body needs to properly function on a day to day basis. On the other hand, the report shows normal levels of…

Wastewater can be formed from domestic, industrial, agricultural, commercial activities or any combination of these. Rainwater runoff is also considered as wastewater. This wastewater is full of chemicals, bacterial, viruses and other contaminants regardless where it comes from. Based on this reason, wastewater treatment is needed and crucial for converting the wastewater into an effluent that can be either discharged to the environment or reused. However, wastewater treatment plant posed safety…

KALE: Kale is a wonderfully nutritional leafy green. A 2.4 ounce of raw kale, about 33 calories, provides vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, B6, C, and K, Iron, calcium, copper, manganese, magnesium, potassium, phosphorus, fiber, and protein. Kale’s antioxidant properties come from its various flavonoids. The beauty about eating kale is that you can eat all that you want by adding it to salads, as a snack, or as an added nutritional boost when you make smoothies…

The end-product is one the of the highest P containing organic sources. The expense of bone meal has limited its use in turf. Bone meal usually takes about 2-4 months to release the nitrogen and phosphorus. Research at Colorado State suggests that bone meal is only available to plants in soils that have a pH below 7.0 (Card et. al., 2014). Blood meal is one of the highest N concentrations of any organic fertilizer source. It is rapidly available…

Complex issues such as health problems, environmental issues, or environmental health problems, such as air and water pollution, hazard wastes sites, lead poisoning and species instability are all liked together and are fixed in communities in which they occur. These kinds of complex problems that occur in communities are said to be “wicked problems” where different stakeholders cannot find scientific solutions in order to fix these complex issues. These problems are seen throughout the world,…