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Olympia, Washngton (AP)
As a 25-gallon aquarium is lowered upside-down onto the bottom of an inlet in Puget Sound, Mindy Roberts watches as two other environmental scientists draw water samples up a long, clear tube.
On this particular day, the Department of Ecology is testing for dissolved oxygen in the water, data that will be used to figure out how human factors such as stormwater runoff negatively impact the levels of oxygen in the water.
Roberts, a project manager at the agency, said the information will help create the equivalent of a flight simulator, a program that would let scientists test out how different things – like a projected population boom – will impact the sound.
As a 25-gallon aquarium is lowered upside-down onto the bottom of an inlet in Puget Sound, Mindy Roberts watches as two other environmental scientists draw water samples up a long, clear tube.
On this particular day, the Department of Ecology is testing for dissolved oxygen in the water, data that will be used to figure out how human factors such as stormwater runoff negatively impact the levels of oxygen in the water.
Roberts, a project manager at the agency, said the information will help create the equivalent of a flight simulator, a program that would let scientists test out how different things – like a projected population boom – will impact the sound.
