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Jasm 2022 Poster Hershberger
Jasm 2022 Poster Hershberger
Jasm 2022 Poster Hershberger
Study Questions:
1) What is impairing the recovery of the macroinvertebrates?
2) Assess the role of substrate on macroinvertebrate recovery.
Figure 1. Map of the nine remediation phases and study sites in the Bear Run
Prediction: Aquatic recovery is slow because of a residue left Watershed (Clark 2013; PADEP, 2020).
Figure 5. Whatman GF filters after vacuum Figure 7. Hess Sampling used in study.
Figure 2. Sediment Collection filtration.
October 2021.
Acknowledgements
Figure 12. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling ordination plot (Bray- Curtis) distances
for spatial comparisons of macroinvertebrate and EPT communities in the Bear Run
Watershed, 2021.
I would like thank the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) Biology Department, and
the IUP Chemistry Department for the necessary equipment, funding,
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