{"id":378,"date":"2016-10-23T19:54:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T23:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/?p=378"},"modified":"2016-10-23T20:13:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T00:13:19","slug":"new-sediment-sampler-and-wissahickon-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/2016\/10\/23\/new-sediment-sampler-and-wissahickon-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"New sediment sampler and Wissahickon wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried out a new sediment sampler with grad student Alex Nawotke.\u00a0 The Helley-Smith sampler uses a net to catch suspended fines. We used it to collect fines in the bedload by kicking them up to create a suspension.\u00a0 Alex will analyze to see if there are any contaminants in the bed load.\u00a0 A few days later, a colleague Jon Lester from Montgomery County Planning Commission capture a snake eating a fish at the site we were sampling.\u00a0 Dr Bojeong Kim, Alex&#8217;s advisor, commented that we missed an opportunity to sample bioaccumlation, but personally I don&#8217;t want to be in the stream with that snake is out and about!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2016\/10\/snake_eating_fish.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-372\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2016\/10\/snake_eating_fish-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"snake_eating_fish\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2016\/10\/snake_eating_fish-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2016\/10\/snake_eating_fish.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2016\/10\/helley_sampler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-386 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2016\/10\/helley_sampler-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"helley_sampler\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2016\/10\/helley_sampler-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2016\/10\/helley_sampler.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Snake Photo courtesy of Jon Lester<\/p>\n<p>Sampler photo courtesy of\u00a0\u00a0 Mary-Margaret Monser<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried out a new sediment sampler with grad student Alex Nawotke.\u00a0 The Helley-Smith sampler uses a net to catch suspended fines. We used it to collect fines in the bedload by kicking them up to create a suspension.\u00a0 Alex &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/2016\/10\/23\/new-sediment-sampler-and-wissahickon-wildlife\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}