{"id":443,"date":"2017-04-26T09:33:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T13:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/?p=443"},"modified":"2017-05-06T20:01:40","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T00:01:40","slug":"hormones-in-karst-springs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/2017\/04\/26\/hormones-in-karst-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hormones in karst springs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grad student Jim Berglund, undergrad Rachel Crowley, and I designed a sampling program for hormones in karst springs near Valley Creek just east of Philadelphia. We sampled springs varying distances from septic systems and roads, as well as in Valley Forge National Park (after getting a park sampling permit).\u00a0\u00a0 Lab analysis required the help of\u00a0 colleague Jack Gordon in the Pharmacy School and learning how to use Elissa kits (pictured below).\u00a0 Lots of duplicate measurements provided confidence in the low concentrations we detected.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2017\/04\/elissakit.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-442\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2017\/04\/elissakit-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2017\/04\/elissakit-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/files\/2017\/04\/elissakit.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grad student Jim Berglund, undergrad Rachel Crowley, and I designed a sampling program for hormones in karst springs near Valley Creek just east of Philadelphia. We sampled springs varying distances from septic systems and roads, as well as in Valley &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/2017\/04\/26\/hormones-in-karst-springs\/\">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-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","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=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geotoran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}