Hi Nathan,
Op woensdag 4 april 2012 14:25:50 UTC+2 schreef Nathan McCorkle het volgende:
Frits,On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Frits Stam <f.c.stam@student.tue.nl> wrote:
> Hi Nathan,
>
> Looking at the way we trash the ocean with plastic, eating all it's fish and
> still think that tropical rain forests are the lungs of the planet seems to
> me that we are in some way disconnected.I guess my lack of knowledge shows how simple an understanding someone
can have... I'd love to hear more about the topics. Are you interested
in making a movie, or some other media?> What I am currently interested in is the pollution and degradation of water
> quality close to cities that will eventually end up in the ocean.
>
> A couple of days ago I walked along the river 'de dommel' which goes
> straight through the city. (see: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dommel_(water
> gang) it's in Dutch but it has picture! :P ) They are actually cleaning the
> bed of the river because a lot of companies dumped zinc in it. I am looking
> in ways of collecting samples along the river and assessing the quality.
> While I was biking to the university I could see a purplish reflection on
> the water. I'm wondering how I can check the quality in some kind of way?A spectrometer may help, know anyone that runs an FTIR?
--
Nathan McCorkle
Rochester Institute of Technology
College of Science, Biotechnology/Bioinformatics
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