Use this link to see the results of our water chemistry tests at each site over the seasons. It is easy to see that the water quality is better in the Spring after the Winter rains than in the fall after a long dry summer. The rains function as a big flush sending all the runoff out to sea. Good for our creeks but bad for the ocean and our channel islands.
Results 2010-2011
Water Chemistry Results Spring 2011
Use the following link in order to view our water testing results from Spring of 2011. It is easy to see that the water is cleaner upstream than downstream. The only bump here was that our coliform test was a bit higher at the mid-point than at the bottom of the creek.
Spring 2011 Results
Spring 2011 Results
Project Fair Sharing
Listen in to what the students have been learning this year at our Home Based Partnership Project Fair. These kids are good!
Pacific Mole Crab
by Chloe
The Pacific Mole Crab is a kind of sand crab that is very small and gray. It can grow to be up to 35 mm long and 25 mm wide. The female is larger than a male and it may have bright orange eggs or short threads near the telson. The males are smaller than the female and they both can be tan too.They live on sandy beaches from Alaska to Baja California. They bury themselves in the sand.
The mole crab’s predators are fish, water birds, and shore birds. That is why they live underneath the sand.
In our Watershed class we measure their length, count how many there are, and chart the data. We also check to see if the females have eggs. We enter the data on the LiMPETS website.
I think mole crabs are so cool because of how they dig in the sand. They dig with their back legs, moving backwards. They dig so fast that if you look away and you look back they might seem to disappear. Their quickness makes them hide from their predators quickly.
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