I met with Dr.Anderson on Thursday to go over my paper and he gave me a lot great pointers but it’s going to be a lot of work. He gave me some good advice on how to run my stats so they are more accurate and it worked wonderfully. All of my p-values for my … Continue reading Its almost over
Well the semester is winding down and soon it will be time to turn in our final report! We have our sage presentation here on campus on May 14th, which I am a little nervous for but excited too because I will hopefully have opportunities to exercise my networking skills. Our data and thesis are … Continue reading Setting Goals for the next Two Weeks
I turned in the final draft of my poster and now I am turning my attention towards working on my paper and organizing my data to turn in. I have a little bit of GIS work to complete before I can fully complete my paper, but I will have it done on Thursday. It is … Continue reading Final Poster Draft Complete
Last week we looked at the first draft of our posters. Since then we revised them and are going to work again today to peer review them. This is what mine looks like so far. This week I will work to make my graphs in plotly instead of excel.
Yesterday I went out to three of my sites: two in the Santa Clara River and the other San Francisquito Creek. I collected water quality data with a YSI EXO2 probe and my laptop. In addition, I used a GPS app on my phone to collect coordinates of each sample I took. I sampled a … Continue reading Collected Water Quality Data
Over the break I went to five locations: Santa Clara River (two locations), San Francisquito Canyon, Bouquet Creek, and Soledad Canyon. I not only looked for fish, I also took pictures of the location sites so I can asses the changes before and after El Niño. The only place I found fish was under Bouquet … Continue reading Winter Break Update
According to the 2009 5-Year Review by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Unarmored Threespine Stickleback there are several known locations of UTS populations in and around the Santa Clarita Valley. A little over a week ago I went out to my five focus sites: 2 in the Santa Clara River, where the Valencia … Continue reading Surveyed Some Sites Before the Big Rains
I have begun water quality probe training. I just need one more session in the lab then a field test before I can check out a probe. In the mean time I plan on vising each of the five sites in the next few days to record observations on the habitat and to check for … Continue reading Water Quality Probe Training
This is an interesting post made by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about a relocation of unarmored threespine stickleback in June of 2015 where they moved a population from the Santa Clara River (where drought conditions were severe) to San Francisquito Creek. This was done to protect the highly endangered fish from extinction. From … Continue reading Relocation of Stickleback
These pictures were taken under the Iron Horse Trails bridge off of Magic Mountain Parkway. It is downstream from the picture in the last blog. There were larger pools of water here but I did not see any stickleback. This was a known location of unarmored stickleback in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Review from … Continue reading Downstream from Waste Water Treatment Plant
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