Water Quality Probe Training

Last Thursday I continued water quality probe training and now I just need one more training session in the field to check out the probe for my project. My goal is to check it out this weekend and survey all five sites in one day. Then I will check it out again in about a month, hopefully after some rain, and collect more data so I can compare water quality before and and after the main bulk of El Niño rains. The purpose of this data is determine how adequate the sites are for UTS survival, and how rain can increase or decrease the quality of water in their habitat. Pictured above is the Soledad Canyon Site which is owned and managed by the U.S. Forest Service.