2/21/12

Today I continued working on the fresh water biology project which is mainly trying to see what kind of algae grows in pond water when we add nutrients to enrich the water. The first set of test tubes contained pond water and a plant nutrient NPK. The second pair of test tubes that were done today held a Nitrogen stock solution and another one with a phosphorus but since we I had help from robert we decided that he would do phosphorus and I would do nitrogen. The project takes about 2 weeks for the algae to grow in the incubator and when they are finished I will take some samples and look at it under a microscope to determine what type of algae it is and also anything that we can identify in the sample.