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Improving water quality through education
In partnership with the Volunteer Task Force
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Improving water quality through education In partnership with the Volunteer Task Force |
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| Students from Los Alamos, Santa Fe, and around northern New Mexico are taking part in a study on the effects of post-fire runoff on stream channels. Using simple equipment, the young scientists gather data on the shape of the channels in Rendija and Pueblo canyons. Back at school, they enter the data in a spreadsheet and create graphs of the stream cross section. By revisting the site after a flow event, students can compare the shape of the channel as well as the materials that make up the channel bottom. Baseline data was collected in the fall of 2002; students will revisit the sites in the spring and fall of 2003 to discover active geomorphic processes. A lesson plan is available. | ||||||||||
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| Students from Aspen Elementary collected data in Rendija Canyon in October 2002. The dark line on the graph below is the stream channel as it was in October. The dotted pink line is an estimated cross section of the same site as it was before post-Cerro Grande flooding. | ||||||||||
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