{"id":2076,"date":"2019-08-28T16:48:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-28T20:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/mnquest\/?page_id=2076"},"modified":"2020-03-11T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T15:20:26","slug":"assessing-water-quality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/mnquest\/uncover\/water-health\/assessing-water-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing Water Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h5>uncover<\/h5>\n<h1>Assessing Water Quality<\/h1>\n\t\t<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/mnwaterquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/06\/Water-Quality-Overviews.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Test Water Quality<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\n\t\t\t<p>Gathering data on these water quality indicators will help answer questions like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Water & Air Temperature:\u00a0<\/strong>What temperature is needed for certain organisms to survive?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dissolved Oxygen<\/strong> \u2013 How much oxygen is available in the water for organisms to breathe and thrive?<\/li>\n<li><strong>pH<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 How acidic or\u00a0basic is the water, and how does this affect organisms?\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nutrients\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 How much nitrogen and phosphorus is in the water, and how does this affect plant growth and animal health?<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Turbidity<\/strong> \u2013 How cloudy or clear is the water? How deep can sunlight go underwater? How does this affect plants and animals?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Follow the testing protocol of this citizen science project and share your data with scientists in Minnesota and around the world.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/mnwaterquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2018\/06\/Water-Quality-Overviews.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWater Quality Indicators\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h4><strong>Analyze Existing Data on Minnesota Water Quality<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Testing and recording water quality data over time is important for establishing a baseline, identifying and tracking patterns, measuring progress in improving water quality, and alerting citizens if the quality worsens. This data is reported to a global water quality database where we can track data trends.<\/p>\n<p><small>Visit the GLOBE.gov data portal (below) to view and analyze Minnesota water quality data near you. Select \u201cChoose Site by School\u201d and search for Wilderness Inquiry to find your site.<\/small><\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/vis.globe.gov\/GLOBE\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAnalyze Data for Minnesota\u2019s Waters\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/283994436\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGLOBE.GOV Tutorial\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globe.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/mnquest\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2018\/04\/GLOBElogo_color-arc_lg.gif\" alt=\"GLOBElogo_color-arc_lg\" height=\"556\" width=\"724\" title=\"GLOBElogo_color-arc_lg\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globe.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">did you know?<\/a><\/h5>\t\t\n\t\t\t<p>As an official partner of The GLOBE Program, participants on Wilderness Inquiry\u2019s CanoeMobile program conduct regular water quality tests on the rivers of Minnesota. The GLOBE Program is a worldwide community of students, teachers, scientists, and citizens working together to better understand, sustain, and improve Earth\u2019s environment at all scales. Learn more about how you can work with Wilderness Inquiry to collect and contribute water quality data to the GLOBE international data set.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.globe.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAbout GLOBE\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwatermonitoringday.org\/\u00a0\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong> EarthEcho World Water Monitoring Day\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"\/mnquest\/uncover\/water-health\/\" target=\"_self\" role=\"button\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tBack to Water Health\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>uncover Assessing Water Quality Test Water Quality Gathering data on these water quality indicators will help answer questions like: Water &#038; Air Temperature:\u00a0What temperature is needed for certain organisms to survive? Dissolved Oxygen \u2013 How much oxygen is available in the water for organisms to breathe and thrive? pH\u00a0\u2013 How acidic or\u00a0basic is the water, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary cf-quest-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/mnquest\/uncover\/water-health\/assessing-water-quality\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"parent":1423,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2076","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/mnquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/mnquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/mnquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/mnquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/mnquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/mnquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2076\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/mnquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/herofortheplanet.org\/mnquest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}