NITRATES ARE YUMMY!*
by
Lisa Maccagno
Evelyn Maurice
Toni Watt
RESEARCH
TEAM PROFILE
The impact of nitrates in freshwater streams has become
a concern to environmentalists and lay people alike. Nitrate pollution
from agricultural, personal and recreational activities has increased enough
to have an impact upon human health and the quality of life as well as
the environment. The correlation of elevated nitrate levels to blue
babies, impaired neurological development in children, non-hodgkins lymphoma
as well as alga blooms, eutrification, oxygen depletion and accelerated
succession, have stimulated our interest in nitrate loading in freshwater
streams. It is evident that there are other sources of nitrates such
as acid rain and animal excrement, however this investigation is an onging
study of fertilizer run-off from the Springdale Golf Course in Princeton,
New Jersey.
Upon completion of a preliminary research,
the team proposed the following hypothesis
to be examined: Nitrates will accumulate
from source to sink along a stream.
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