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    Microhabitats and macroinvertebrates: Logjam influences on stream morphology and macroinvertebrate traits
    Logjams are important hydrologic features that shape stream channel morphology and create habitat for organisms. In this lesson, students learn about and measure logjams in a wadeable stream and...

    Keywords: aquatic macroinvertebrateswoodriparian ecologyhabitatfunctional feeding groupRiver Field Studies Networklarge wood

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    Too much of a good thing? Exploring nutrient pollution in streams using bioindicators
    Students use data on nitrogen and phosphorus levels in streams and macrobenthic insect biodiversity to consider issues of nutrient pollution and stream health while learning to filter, summarize,...
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    Landscape Indicators:Nutrients and Macroinvertebrates
    Modification of the Investigating Human Impacts on Stream Ecology Module to emphasize landscape indicators and incorporate inclusive practices.
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    Interactions between Water, Earth’s Surface, and Human Activity
    This two-week (~10-hour) module focuses on water and its importance to humans, both as a limited resource and in shaping Earth's surface.

    Keywords: earth scienceenvironmental sciencegeosciencewater resourcesResources @ InTeGrate

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    REMNet Tutorial, Excel Part 1: Accessing Your Microbiome Data 5.3.19
    Video on accessing microbiome data from the Research Experiences in Microbiomes Network

    Keywords: data analysisREMNet

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    Aquatic Nutrient Levels and Climate Change
    This learning module was designed to introduce students to the aquatic nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus, their roles in ecosystem function and nutrient pollution, and what impacts climate change...

    Keywords: climate changenitrogenwater resourcesfreshwater systemsEutrophicationwater qualitynutrient pollutionphosphorusdischargeTMDL

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    Aquatic Macroinvertebrates and Urbanization: Exploring urbanization’s effect on leaf litter decomposition in six streams of Puerto Rico using R
    Urbanization effects stream ecosystems by introducing pollutants to the streams.. This has detrimental effects on the life of the streams such as the aquatic macroinvertebrates who are in charge of...

    Keywords: aquatic macroinvertebratesStream ecologyurbanizationsurban runoff

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    7-020-ThermometerInVaryingTempStream-ModelingScenario
    We present a first order differential equation model for the temperature of a mercury thermometer which is sitting in a stream of water whose temperature oscillates. We suggest a solving strategy...

    Keywords: temperaturesteady statethermometerheat exchangetransfer functionphase lagInvers Laplace Transform

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    The River Breathes: Stream reach metabolism as an integrative and comparable measure of stream processes
    Stream reach metabolism integrates organism respiration & production to provide a valuable ecosystem measure that varies as a function of biotic & abiotic factors. As a powerful indicator of whole...

    Keywords: ecosystem respirationMetabolismriverRespirationproductionRiver Field Studies NetworkDissolved OxygenStream MetabolismEcosystem ProductionStreamField LessonGuided Student ReflectionStudent Reflection

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    1-059-ContainerShapeFallingWater-ModelingScenario
    We examine many different physical situations to determine the time it takes a fixed volume of water to flow out of different shape containers through the same size exit hole at the bottom of the...

    Keywords: containersTorricelli's Lawshapedischarge coefficient

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    Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally
    This module is a modification of the Nuding and Hampton module in TIEE Volume 8. This modified module includes data from Alaska and is modified to be completed as an asynchronous lab in an online...

    Keywords: aquatic macroinvertebratesAlaskaStream ecologynutrient pollutionHuman Impacts of Ecosystemsecological monitoringasynchronous learning

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    MathBench: Biodiversity Assessment of Stream Biota
    The MathBench module, "The Case of the Missing Mountaintop" introduces students to the concept of biodiversity and measures used to quantify biodiversity and stream health. Students investigate the...

    Keywords: ecology labCommunity Ecologyenvironmental scienceconservation ecologyStream ecology

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    Investigating Leaf Litter Decomposition and Invertebrate Communities in Streams
    Students utilize the provided dataset to engage in an open-inquiry project on the impacts of abiotic and biotic factors on stream macroinvertebrate communities and/or leaf litter decomposition.

    Keywords: Resources @ ESA - TIEEInvasive SpeciesfmnDIGspecies tolerance curvesdiversity indiceslitter decomposition ratesfreshwater ecologyopen-inquiry

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    Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: locally and nationally
    This is a modification of an original TIEE Module, investigating these questions: How does nutrient pollution impact stream ecosystems locally and nationally? How does land cover change impact...

    Keywords: tool:rstudiolandscape ecologyStream ecologyBox Plotsland usespatial analysisEutrophication

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    Investigating human impacts on stream ecology: Intro to R
    This resource uses the Human Impact on Stream Ecology data set, background and questions and provides students an very general introduction to using R. Students perform basic summary statistics and...

    Keywords: graphingdata visualizationR programming languagedescriptive statisticsundergraduate environmental science

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    Using Survey123 to Map Physical Habitat Characteristics, Watershed Activities, and Disturbances
    In this lesson, students are introduced to the idea and practice of “remote sensing” and provided with hands-on, field-based experience using standardized stream habitat assessment protocols (the...

    Keywords: GISmappingremote sensingRiver Field Studies Networkriparian habitat assessmentGPSSurvey123National Rivers and Streams Assessment (NRSA)watershed activitieswatershed disturbances

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    7-010-MultipleDoses-ModelingScenario
    Two multiple dose drug administration regimens are offered. A drug is to maintain a certain level (above a set minimum and below a set maximum) in the blood stream and one regimen involves bolus...

    Keywords: drug discoverystep functiondoseDiracdrug administrationinverse Laplace Transformintraveneousbolussteady drip

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    Water Quality Investigation (Project EDDIE)
    This multi-part module aims to help you learn about water quality implications by understanding the variability of concentrations of nitrate in stream water through the evaluation of real-time data...

    Keywords: dataExcelwaternitrogenUSGSProject EDDIEnitrogen cycle

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    2007-Mogen_Steffensen-Differential Equations in Finance and Life Insurance
    The mathematics of finance and the mathematics of life insurance were always intersecting. Life insurance contracts specify an exchange of streams of payments between the insurance company and the...

    Keywords: financedisabilitylife insurancemortalityinsuraneThiele’s equationBlack-Scholes equation

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    Exploring Detritus-Based Food Webs in Streams
    This two-part field lesson for mid- to upper-level undergraduates connects allochthonous inputs to the invertebrate consumers that depend on them. After preparing students with background...

    Keywords: aquatic macroinvertebratesfunctional feeding groupallochthonousorganic matterleaf packRiver Field Studies Network

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