Environmental Science Lab Manual

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Lab 1—Welcome to your Watershed: Using the scientific method in assessing your water body
Lab 2—The Chemistry of Our Waters
Lab 3—Water Quality Testing: Physical and Chemical Measurements
Lab 4—Introduction Picturing your Watershed
Lab 5—Water Quality Monitoring: physical, chemical and biological (coliform and algal) analyses
Lab 6—Wanderers in the Water: My name is Plankton
Lab 7—Water Quality Monitoring: More Physical, Chemical and Biological Analyses
Lab 8—Macroinvertebrates
Lab 9—Chemical Analyses
Lab 10—Laboratory-Fieldtrip Waste Water Treatment Plant
Lab 11—Your Ecological Foodprint
Lab 12—Team Report-Presentation Guidelines

Appendices
A. Guidelines to the Field Notebook and Lab Report
B. Guidelines for Background Water Quality Report
C. Guidelines for Introduction to Individual Water quality Paper
D. Individual Water Quality Report
E. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA)
F. Determining Concentrations of Phosphate From Standard Solutions and Standard Curves
G. Determining Concentrations of Ammonia From Standard Solutions and Standard Curves
H. Suggestions for Instructors