In Spring 2022, three WCC students conducted a research project to study dissolved oxygen and pH levels in the Bellingham Bay region. In particular, they studied the impacts of urbanization. You can watch a short video to see what they found.
Are you interested in this topic, too? Do you agree or disagree with their conclusions? You can start your own research by looking at the resources these students used.
Source list
ENR (Environment and Natural Resources), GNWT (Government of the Northwest Territories). “Dissolved Oxygen (DO).” 2007. Accessed on June 2, 2022,
https://www.enr.gov.nt.ca/sites/enr/files/dissolved_oxygen.pdf.
EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency). “Dissolved Oxygen.” 2019. Accessed on June 2, 2022, https://www.epa.gov/caddis-vol2/dissolved-oxygen.
EPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency). “Monitoring Water Quality.”
November 1997. Accessed on June 2, 2022, https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-06/documents/stream.pdf.
FLI (Finger Lakes Institute). “Finger Lakes Regional Stream Monitoring Network: Manual.” July 2016. Accessed on June 2, 2022, https://www.hws.edu/fli/pdf/stream_manual.pdf.
HACH Inc., Water Quality Factors Reference Unit. “Water, Water Everywhere.” Accessed on June 2, 2022, https://dep.wv.gov/WWE/getinvolved/sos/Documents/SOSKit/DOSaturation.pdf.
NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). “Ocean Acidification.” U.S. Department of Commerce, 2022. Accessed on June 2, 2022, https://www.noaa.gov/education/resource-collections/ocean-coasts/ocean-acidification.
NOAA. “Point Source: Pollution Tutorial.” U.S. Department of Commerce, 2022. Accessed on June 10, 2022, https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_pollution/03pointsource.html.
UtahStateUniversity. “Water Quality: Dissolved Oxygen.” Utah State University Extension, Accessed on June 2, 2022, https://extension.usu.edu/waterquality/learnaboutsurfacewater/propertiesofwater/dissolvedoxygen.
World Population Review. “Bellingham, Washington Population 2022.” 2022. Accessed on June 2, 2022, https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities/bellingham-wa-population.
Fondriest Environmental, Inc. “Dissolved Oxygen.” Fundamentals of Environmental
Measurements. 19 Nov. 2013. Accessed on June 5, 2022, https://www.fondriest.com/environmental-measurements/parameters/water-quality/dissolved-oxygen/#:~:text=In%20the%20ocean%2C%20coastal%20fish,growth%20and%20survival%20rates%20%C2%B2%E2%81%B9.
NOAA. “Hypoxia.” Department of Commerce. Accessed on June 5, 2022,
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/hazards/hypoxia/.