Glen Helen and Little Miami River Water Quality Fall 2015

<p> Service Learning Intensive (SVI) - a teaching and learning pedagogy that engages faculty, students, and community members in a partnership to achieve academic learning objectives, meet community needs, promote civic responsibility, and reflect on the learning experience.</p><p> More specifically, the objectives for this course are for students to: <ul> <li> Apply environmental chemistry concepts learned in the classroom to the interpretation environmental analysis results </li> </ul> <ul> <li> Use Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) through the use of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and EPA methods for the analysis of metals, anions, dissolved oxygen, pH, temperature, conductivity, ammonia, and turbidity </li> <li> </li> </ul></p><p> Follow up on previous years&rsquo; results showing elevated E. coli and nitrates at some sites <li> </li></p><p> Present results to key stakeholders in the Village of Yellow Springs and Greene County <li> </li></p><p> Perform residential well sampling <li> </li></p><p> Complete periodic written reflections to tie classroom, laboratory, field, and community service experiences together</p>