Second Tested Classroom activity to Using Images section B

Activity 3

Question: In which season, spring or fall is there more sediment in the Maumee River?

Background:

Go to http://www.joycefdn.org/News/NewsDetails.aspx?NewsId=156 Click on printable version. Copy and paste the whole article in a word document. Using the highlight tool and the computer pen, highlight and notate answers to the following questions. This article is about the 5 million dollar grant assigned to aid the recovery of over 8,000 square miles of the Maumee River watershed. #1 is partly done as an example. Save your work in the class folder in Remote sensing Path B3 as your last name and first initial “kanej”

  • Identify 3 reasons why the quality of the Maumee River shed is a concern. (use yellow highlighter)I have copied and pasted a few paragraphs, (you will copy the article in whole) with highlighting and notation in partial fulfillment for question #1.

Efforts to restore the Maumee River—the largest source of polluted runoff flowing into Lake Erie—took a major step forward Monday when one of the Midwest’s largest foundations announced it is supporting a multi-state strategy to restore portions of the environmentally distressed Maumee watershed.
The Chicago-based Joyce Foundation has awarded $5 million in grants to a total of four national and local organizations in a quest to aid the recovery of the 8,316 square mile Maumee watershed, the largest river system in the Great Lakes region. The mouth of the Maumee in Toledo has been designated an Area of Concern by the International Joint Commission. The Ohio EPA estimates that more than 40 percent of the streams in the Ohio portion of the Maumee watershed do not meet Clean Water Act standards. ……..

  1. Identify 2 causes of the problem? (green highlighter)
  2. What role does streamside vegetation play? (cyan highlighter)
  3. Name 5 ways this grant plans to improve the river water quality (pink highlighter)

Remote sensing directions:

  1. Open Multipsec
  2. Go to file, open image. Go to the $kane rs folder. Select the composite subset for April and September 2007. Wait for it to load. Enlarge the image.
  3. Create a rectangle in the river near the mouth of the river.
  4. In the menu, choose “Window”, select “new window graph”. Using this graph, the band chart from part A4d (http://biodiversityinformatics.amnh.org/tool.php?content_id=145   ) and this chart: http://landsat.usgs.gov/resources/remote_sensing/images/Light.jpg to answer the original question. Select several more areas of the river to seeanswer. What are some if the results are consistent with your answer. Show me your answer and explain your logic to me. How confident are you with your insecurities with this answer?