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Water Quality and Salmon Return: Water Temperature and Dissolved Oxygen

Organization(s):Boys and Girls Club, Metlakatla
Country:United States of America
Student(s):Michael Duran Ma'Karii Martinez Mia Winter
Grade Level:Upper Primary (grades 3-5, ages 8-11)
GLOBE Teacher:Sesilynn Schleusner
Contributors:Dr. Elena Sparrow Dr. Katie Spellman Metlakatla Indian Community Fisheries Program
Report Type(s):Standard Research Report, U.S. Student Research Symposia (SRS)
Protocols:Dissolved Oxygen, pH, Water Temperature
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Date Submitted:05/03/2019
Our fish have been missing. People on our island eat fish. So many people in our families and community are fisherpeople for their jobs. Even people who aren’t commercial or subsistence fishermen eat fish as a part of their diet. We depend on fish! We wanted to know how the water was on different parts of the island, and if it has affected our salmon. In the past Hemlock creek had salmon, but it has decreased a lot. Graveyard Creek had salmon in the past, but not for a very long time. We wonder if the water chemistry and temperature affects the fish.


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Marcy Seavey
4 Years Ago
Hello Boys and Girls Club research Team,
What a great project! Your project demonstrates how many good science questions begin with a community question and with a want to understand what is happening. Your project also demonstrates how even after we read about our topic and we think we know what is going on, often more is happening than we can explain and we need to do MORE SCIENCE to really discover what is going on. I hope that you or future students are able to keep investigating this question and discover why the Salmon have come back to one location but not the other. Maybe then conservation efforts can improve the habitat in both locations. Best of luck and thank you for your research!