2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
5/24/2018 | 11:15 AM - 11:30 AM | A STREAM-SPECIFIC MACROINVERTEBRATE FIELD GUIDE FOR MOBILE DEVICES. | 320
A STREAM-SPECIFIC MACROINVERTEBRATE FIELD GUIDE FOR MOBILE DEVICES.
Macroinvertebrates are ideal study subjects for young scientists. However, identification can frustrate students, yield inaccurate data, and reduce replication needed for interesting questions. Since 2008, Vermont EPSCoR’s Streams Project has developed tools to streamline identification and encourage students to address bigger questions. High school teams sample water and macroinvertebrates and use GIS-derived landscape data. We developed a stream-specific macroinvertebrate application for mobile devices to improve identification efficiency and accuracy. The app downloads photographs and content from a customizable wiki platform. The wiki is built around two components: 1. Invertebrate templates, and 2. Stream site pages. For each taxon we build a short web page called a ‘template’ with a brief description and photograph. The templates are assembled like Lego bricks on stream pages based on site data. Each high school uploads data from two streams to share with their peer teams. Students analyze land-use data, long-term macroinvertebrate and water quality data from multiple streams. Thus a team from rural Vermont can compare forested or agricultural streams to urban streams in San Juan or East Boston. Each team presents their year-long project as a poster or talk at our annual symposium.
- Education
- New Methods
- Bioassessment
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Declan McCabe
(), Saint Michael's College, dmccabe@smcvt.edu;
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Janel Roberge
(), Vermont EPSCoR, jroberge@smcvt.edu;
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