https://www.envirodiy.org/members/blackriverbrat/activity/ Activity feed for Kelly Stettner. Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:07:58 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 9c139458a3c67b3353cdc84f3ba4a11f https://www.envirodiy.org/activity/p/2861/ Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:40:59 -0500 Hoping to learn if any of you are working with the organisms in the hyporheic zone of streams/rivers?

]]> 0 88a0ce407e858a05486d50f39418d705 https://www.envirodiy.org/activity/p/1460/#acomment-2858 Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:39:58 -0500 Still working on this…I now have a compound ‘scope to look for creatures, but all I’m finding so far is tiny rock crystals. Am I not digging deeply enough? The push-point can only penetrate an inch or so down…not the 6″ that I’ve seen mentioned. The river bottom is VERY rocky, I don’t really see a way to get deeper than an inch or two.

In reply to - Kelly Stettner posted an update in the group Researchers I’m working on sampling the meiofauna in the hyporheic zone near a contaminated river bank in southeastern Vermont. These are the microscopic critters that […] ]]> 221cf25c6e52963a2e6e4b272130382a https://www.envirodiy.org/activity/p/1460/ Tue, 22 Mar 2016 18:58:58 -0400 I’m working on sampling the meiofauna in the hyporheic zone near a contaminated river bank in southeastern Vermont. These are the microscopic critters that live in the water that is in-between grains of substrate under the bed of the river…where groundwater wells up into the river. Tried using colonization tubes last year, with no luck. Going…[Read more]

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