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Northeastern Illinois University
 Department
of Earth Science
The Muddy Waters
Project Wiki
Photos of us working
in the field!
 Team
Member Project resources
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Muddy Waters: |
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Chicago's Urban Environmental Geology
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A Student Research Project
of the
Earth Science Department at Northeastern Illinois University
Summer 2009
Funded by the NEIU Student Center for
Science Engagement |
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Objectives, from the
proposal:
This project will engage three faculty and nine students to investigate
relationships between watershed geology, water geochemistry, and
stream
characteristics
for select urban streams in the Chicago area.
We will investigate relationships between stream and drainage-basin
variables including stream gradient, discharge, velocity, oxygen content,
and sulfur speciation in streams and adjacent wetlands, and geology of the
drainage basin.
The team will characterize variations in these parameters, as well as
investigate the effects on other aspects of stream morphology, water
chemistry, and stream physical characteristics.
Read more about our
research proposal
See
the project wiki here.
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"Field of Streams" & "Up the Creek" --
the Muddy Waters teams -- at work!
...click here for more team photos...
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Northeastern Illinois University. Contact
website manager.
Muddy Waters learning and applying lab and field techniques... and
sharing with other team members
Student Participant Project
Resources:
printable time sheet requires Adobe; click on icon to download
the project proposal
go to the project wiki
Team research tasks, results, and discussion boards
regarding maps for field use:
while we appreciate that you have been careful with topo maps so far,
non-laminated maps should not be taken into the field.
Please use the instructions below to download online maps --
you can print the segments of maps needed for field work; these paper copies
can be annotated/ marked/ written on/ etc. ... and reprinted as necessary!
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Accessing TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS on-line: |
- Go directly to the
"USGS Store -- Map Locator"
(or go to the
USGS Store, and then click on Map Locator on the left side)
- scroll down the page a little bit, and
you will see a map and, next to it, the label "Step 1"
- in the SEARCH box below "Step 1", type
in the name of a place...
OR you may type in the map quadrangle name (--> use the
drop-down menu to change "search type" from 'address or place'
to 'USGS map name')
- click GO
- the map will change to show the area
you selected, with one or more red markers. Click on a marker to
see a list of available maps, and then click on "download" for the map
of interest (note that our quad maps are 7.5 minute maps).
- You will be asked whether to "open" or
"save" the map. These can be large files, so you can simply
select open... unless you want to save the map on your computer.
- It will take a little while to 'unzip'
the file. When the process is finished, double-click on
the icon for the pdf file, and the map will open in Adobe.
- you can use the 'zoom' tool (magnifying lens
icon, or found under "tools" - "zoom") in Adobe to zoom-in on the map; you can
then use the horizontal and vertical scroll bars to browse
different areas of the map.
- When you find a feature or area of interest,
you can use the "select graphic" tool (camera icon in the
tool bar, OR found under "tools" -- "basic" -- "snapshot tool") to copy that area of the map;
you can then paste
it into a Word or other file.
- Don't forget to cite your source!
(give the map name and state; also any additional information that
would help you to find it again!)
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