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Undergraduate research technician Ashley Weissenfels (left), and OSU Faculty Research Assistant Emilee Mowlds (right) collect stream invertebrates in Lookout Creek
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Undergraduate research technician Ashley Weissenfels (left), and OSU Faculty Research Assistant Emilee Mowlds (right) collect stream invertebrates in Lookout Creek
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Undergraduate research technician Ashley Weissenfels (left), and OSU Faculty Research Assistant Emilee Mowlds (right) collect stream invertebrates in Lookout Creek
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Researchers at the edge of Lookout Creek, processing decomposition strips after a two week incubation period
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OSU graduate student, Meagan White, holds a small Pacific giant salamander
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OSU graduate student, Meagan White, rinsing off decomposition strips with ethanol to halt decomposition after the two week incubation period
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OSU Faculty Research Assistant, Emilee Mowlds, uses a flow meter to measure the velocity (speed) of the water in the stream
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OSU graduate student, Meagan White, deploys cotton strips to measure decomposition rates in the stream
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OSU graduate student, Meagan White, rinsing off a decomposition strip with ethanol to halt decomposition after a two week incubation period
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OSU graduate student, Meagan White, measures dissolved oxygen consumed by microbes on a decomposition strip.
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Researchers measures dissolved oxygen consumed by microbes on a decomposition strip and collect stream invertebrates with a Surber sampler.
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Researchers rinse off a decomposition strip with ethanol to halt decomposition and collect stream invertebrates with a Surber sampler.
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OSU graduate student, Meagan White, measures dissolved oxygen consumed by microbes on a decomposition strip.
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OSU Faculty Research Assistant, Emilee Mowlds, uses a BenthoTorch to measure green algae, cyanobacteria, and diatoms in Lookout Creek
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OSU Faculty Research Assistant, Emilee Mowlds, sets up a wildlife cam to record how wildlife use a large log laying over the stream as a passageway
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OSU Faculty Research Assistant, Emilee Mowlds, measures the size of a large log laying across the stream as part of a study on wildlife use of downed wood as passageways
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