SMSC Fall 2026 Adventures

Tag: virginia

  • Macroinvertebrate Sampling in the Shenandoah River Watershed

    The focus of class this week was sampling water in the Shenandoah River and in streams that feed into it. At each stop along the watershed, each team had the same two tasks. The first of these was running a test for the chemical we were assigned (nitrate in the case of my team). The…

  • Conservation Land Management

    A major focus of the lectures this week has been the role of land management in conservation. We talked about modifications are made to the landscape by conservation workers to promote biodiversity, such as the targeted removal of invasive species and planting of native species. We also spent a lot of time discussing how different…