Project:

What Can Water Mites Tell us About Water Quality?

Students:

Rick Melucci, William Yang, Shahdi Qurashi, Lawrence Yi

School:

Stuyvesant High School, Manhattan

Mentors:

Jessica Quenzer

Abstract:

We intend to identify the genus and species of suspected Chironomidae. We will compare genotyping results with tentative classification based on morphology and behavior. Then we intend to characterize these arthropods and determine what they tell us about the quality of the water our school uses for labs.

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