Team+Crayfish+Problems

=Possible Problems= By: Alysha Bridge

When we were out at Cloe Lake, the problems that occurred during the Physical Parameters were pretty slim. Almost nothing truly went wrong during our measuring. We experienced only a few problems with the staking in the stakes on the side of the stream. The rocks there in the way made it harder for them to put the stakes in the ground. Also, the rope going across the river to measure it would come unwound some of the time, because of the stakes being loose. They finally got it after they hammered it in tight enough and made the rope nice and tight. We also experienced some problems with finding the velocity of the river. There was a huge rock on the side of the bank that went in the water. So when we put the tennis ball in the stream it went near the rock, and it got stuck. And it slowed down the time of the data in the end. Those were the problems that we experienced in the physical parameters part of Cloe Lake. We could have experienced a lot more of the problems when we were there. They could have been the rope breaking in half and not being able to find the distance. We could have measured or divided the measurements wrong. Or when we measured the velocity of the water there could have been sand bars throughout the river to make the ball get caught or all the gravel or cobble could have caught the ball to. There could have been more problems with just the land itself. Examples include bad soil/land erosion, or huge trees that could have fallen and been in the way, there could have been bad sediments in the water…etc. . We could have experienced many problems throughout our measuring but we were fortunate and didn’t experience to many. So in the end we had a good time measuring and doing the job we needed to do with as little trouble as possible.