Hansen Lab Update 2019 

To study the effects of a gizzard shad introduction in Highline Reservoir BIOSINQ funds were used to purchase equipment to collected and process phytoplankton samples, a fluorometer to measure chlorophyll a from the phytoplankton samples, and to purchase a net for collecting zooplankton.  Deme McDowell has been using this equipment in the research.  She has been working in both the field collecting samples (Figure 1A-B) and the lab analyzing samples (Figure 1C-D).

Figure 1. Research student Deme McDowell collecting phytoplankton (A), concentrating zooplankton (B), filtering phytoplankton (C), and reading chlorophyll a using the fluorometer (D).