Sept 25, 2011 – Rock Springs in Kelly Park Author: Jef Frank Today promised to be an interesting day. I’d been inside Rock Springs a couple of times before, and my memory of the place was that is was small, shallow, high flow, and very fragile. Our mission, to collect…
Sept 24, 2011 – “Fall Cleaning” and data collection at Wekiwa Springs Author: Marissa L. Williams On Saturday the Cambrian Foundation once again visited Wekiwa Springs State Park to collect data as part of our grant with the National Science Foundation, but with a twist. Our day began at 8:30…
Sept 23, 2011 – DeLeon Springs Authors: Ashleigh Stewart and Justin Merritt At around 8:30am, the team arrived at DeLeon Springs. Topside field sampling crews set up the analysis kits while the divers readied their gear. The topside team created ziploc bags labeled for stations 1-5 with corresponding letters A-E.…
June 13, 2011 – Miscellaneous springs in Central Florida Author: Rachel Crane Today we had a minimal team consisting of Rima and Amber from Virginia Commonwealth University, Aaron from the University of Virginia, Renee Power, Steve Dunn – one of the Cambrian Foundation Interns, and myself (Rachel Crane). Our goal…
At 0730 today there was a very long line of eager divers, swimmers, sun-worshippers and pancake-eaters at the gate of Deleon Springs State Park here in Central Florida. Once the gate was open the fun frenzy began!! Very quickly the Cambrian Foundation surface support team helped shuttle dive gear to…
June 11, 2011 – Wekiwa Springs Location: Wekiwa Springs State Park Apopka, Florida Author: Shawn Hill Today the Cambrian Foundation, in conjunction with Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and University of Virginia (UVa), gathered for the ongoing research project at Wekiwa springs. Wekiwa Springs State Park (www.floridastateparks.org/wekiwasprings) offers recreational activities such…
Date: June 10, 2011 Author: Amber Taylor Early this morning, we kicked off our summer 2011 sampling for the Florida Springs Biodiversity Project! The Cambrian Foundation was joined by a team of scientists from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), the University of Virginia (UVa), and several new (and old!) interns at…
DeLeon Springs by Alex Houston The team met up early this morning at 7am. Our mission today was to sample bacterial mats in the caves of DeLeon Spring located in Central Florida’s DeLeon Springs State Park. (See Florida Springs Project for more information about DeLeon Springs.) Known from previous sampling,…
Wekiwa Springs By Karl Shreeves and Renee Power Welcome to Wekiwa!! Off to a great start today as everyone chipped in to get the cylinders rigged and the sampling equipment set up down at the spring. The water is the usual brisk 72 degrees. It was pointed out by Amy…
Apopka Blue Sink by Amy Giannotti This morning the team met at the City of Apopka Public Services Department in order to sign liability and release waivers with city personnel. Our sampling site today was Apopka Blue, a sinkhole managed by the City of Apopka. This particular sinkhole is especially…