CHED 810 |
| Lindsay Joy Thomas and Dr. Caryl Fish. |
| My project combines two major aspects of Southwestern Pennsylvania life: fishing and the consequences of abandoned coal mines. My project looks at how well a common species of minnow, the Bluntnose minnow survives in treated mine water. I am using two different types of treated mine water. The first comes from mine water that has passed through a passive wetland treatment system and the other comes from mine water that has been treated with activated iron sludge. I will use the ICP to test each of the different treated mine waters and a control water for iron, aluminum, calcium, magnesium, and sulfur content as well as monitoring the pH and conductivity of each tank and ultimately comparing the growth of the Bluntnose minnows in each tank in order to see how effectively treated mine water supports Bluntnose minnow life, and to see if one method of treating the mine water yields better results in the fish. |
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Undergraduate Research Poster Session: Environmental Chemistry
2:00 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, 27 March 2006 Georgia World Congress Center -- Ex. Hall B4, Poster
Division of Chemical Education |