GSSE Water Quality 2020 - GSSE Water Quality 2020

Water quality sampling took place as a component of the University of Tennessee Knoxville’s Governor’s School for Science and Engineering (GSSE) during June and July 2020. GSSE is a five-week program for high achieving high school students in the state of Tennessee to receive hands-on training in STEM skills. Students in the program (n = 128) were mailed water quality kits to conduct sampling for both home and field water quality as part of the project. For home water quality samples, we used testing strips to measure chlorine, copper, fluoride, hardness, lead, pH and nitrate levels from kitchen faucets; and the zip codes and counties from which samples were taken. For field water quality samples, we measured alkalinity, conductivity, lead, nitrate, nitrite, pH, and temperature from natural water bodies. We took samples from three types of water bodies: lakes, ponds, and streams/rivers. In addition to water quality levels and water body type, we also recorded the county, latitude, and longitude from which samples were taken.

Tennessee
Water quality
Streams
Lakes
Clean Water Act

Woods, Taylor (Depositor)
Woods, Taylor (Creator)
Giam, Xingli (Creator)

2020-06-12