So a couple of weeks ago we had our lab that was in the Ocmulgee River. While others did things like count clams, measure flow rates, and measure elevation across a transect, I picked up trashed and discovered that baby catfish will live inside cans. I didn't actually discover it was baby catfish, since I dropped/ threw the can back in the water screaming "Oh my gosh there is something alive in there!" So here is what those other cool kids did.
Map of Clam Concentrations...I don't think you should eat these...
They found that when the water had a good steady that wasn't too fast that the clams did well. They also did well near the sand banks, but on the sand banks and in deep fast current not so much.
And here is a handy dandy graph from the river transect team, showing the elevation of the Ocmulgee River relative to how far they were from the starting point on the bank.
This lab was a lot of fun, and we found some interesting things in the river, lots of cans, a McDonald's toy and some people even found luggage. Though we did not ride down the river on a log, or see the Ocmulgee River Monster, cousin to the Loch Ness Monster, it was a very interesting and fun lab.
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