Water Quality

Your Tasks Due Today:

1. Watch the video podcasts shown below before coming to class today.

2. Complete the Video Response Canvas Quiz before coming to class today. 

Educational content addRessed in this chapter:

  • Definition and motivation
    • Federal and state policies
    • Case study of suspended sediment TMDL
  • In-situ field measurement +
    • temperature
    • pH
    • electrical conductivity
    • eH
    • Dissolved ocygen
    • ion specific electrodes
    • suspended sediment concentration
    • turbidity
  • Sample collection considerations
  • Quality assurance/quality control
  • Common constitutents measured in the lab 

Assignment we will work on in class today:

  • Assignment 3. Finish in-stream habitat characterization worksheet.

Video Podcast: Water Quality, Part 1

This 27-minute presentation provides some background related to water quality and how we address it as a society, including a case study related to a project I worked on some time ago with suspended sediment impairment of a river.

Note that there is an extra credit opportunity associated with this video podcast, so if you choose to do that, write up a 1-2 page explanation of your findings and give it to me.

Video Podcast: Water Quality, Part 2

This 38-minute presentation offers the fundamentals of using sensors to measure basic water quality parameters and constituent concentrations as well as how to sample water for later laboratory analysis.