Slide 1: Hi Everyone, I’ll be covering Sperry Glacier in Glacier National Park as my site location for the Dynamic Geologic Setting Project. Location: The Sperry Glacier is located in northwest Montana within Glacier National Park. The image on the left gives you some context with respect to the regional location. It is a small cirque glacier of about .8 square km and an average depth of 35 meters on the North slope of gunsight mountain. The area and depth are steadily decreasing however.…
Abstract A spontaneous, one-pot strategy for the room temperature biosynthesis of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) using Cocos Nucifera Linn (coconut palm) coir extract is described. The formation of AuNPs was observed within 30s of reaction time between the metal precursor and coir extract. The bioextract acted as both reducing agent and a stabilizer. The influence of various experimental parameters such as % volume fraction of coir extract, concentration of metal precursor, contact time and solution…
do the interactions relate to the flow of energy and the cycling of matter? Procedure: On March 21, the class went out to Beaver Creek, a tributary of Tookany Creek. Each student collected a sample of soil and water from the Creek. We added a piece of tape to indicate the initial water level in the cup. The cups were placed on a lab table and each week, over the course of four weeks, each student made macroscopic and microscopic observations about his/her ecosystem. At the end of the…
In the past, the citizens of a teeming metropolis lived in their own filth, drank the cleanest water they could find, and subsided on whatever food was in surplus. This was just the way it was. Their poor living conditions were not due to any malicious force acting to subjugate them. Rather, their poor living conditions were due to a lack of understanding…
reaction rate it was heated under reflux. During reflux the solvent is heated to a boil and to ensure the vapors were not lost they were cooled in a condenser, which had cold water running through it. These cooled vapors condensed and returned to the boiling…
does road salt affect vegetation? Plants can become injured when the roots and the foliage become exposed to salt water (Gould, 2013). The foliage becomes damaged when water that has been treated with salt is sprayed up from passing by vehicles…
capacity, the ability to resist changes in acidity and alkalinity. (HowStuffWorks) If the buffering capacity is low, the soil cannot neutralize the increased acidity and the acid rain passes through and leaches into the water systems, where it will accumulate within the body of water and lower its pH. Normally, life thrives in an approximately neutral pH. However, when the pH level strays too far from 7.0, the neutral level, the ecosystem starts to take damage as fragile organisms begin to die.…
We observed about California drought. We planned to observe how California drought affected the farmer, because we thought that farmers used water to irrigate their farm, so California drought would affect them severely. We went to farmers market at Oakland. We met with many farmers there and asked several questions. We wanted to know how severe is California drought for farmers, what have they done regarding California drought and what are they going to do if the California drought got severe.…
health. Clean water is crucial to any living organism, sometimes helping to dilute pollution (Carpenter et al., 1998). However, water runoff an issue relating to pollution, comes from the every day agriculture. The wasted soil and other contaminated materials find their way down into estuaries and ponds causing massive destruction to not only the water, but to the animals living there as well. Eutrophication, however, is the “biggest problem in most coastal waters,” making the water even more…
their research about water on Mars, as they are looking to find the presence of life on a new planet. Many discoveries have been made allowing them to strongly believe that Mars contains water and might still contain it. They still need to do a lot of research to confirm their interpretations and research as some of their arguments can be explained by other reasons then water. Introduction: A recent research by Nasa has comes to prove the presence of water on Mars. Mars…