Bronx River Education

Macroinvertebrate preparations

September 19, 2009

The Ethical Culture Fieldston School will be taking a trip down the Bronx River in October as a part of their interdisciplinary Bronx River Biography unit.  One section will look into the health of the river, and in preparation, my son and I got out and placed leaf packs into a couple of different places along the Bronx River. The expectation is that macroinvertebrates will make their home out of the leaf packs and we will be able to remove them, count and classify them before replacing them in their old neighborhood.  The group will be supported by Bob Ward, and part of the hope is that  such studies will become  a regular monitoring procedure upon the river.

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