Field Work in 2005
August 2005 Field Trip To Park. - Although no funding from DLIA was received to support research in 2005, residual funds received in 2004 (and continuing in-kind and leveraged funding) allowed us to visit the Park in August 2005. We completed collections for aquatic oligochaetes at 10 stream sites and three spring sites on 22-25 August. In addition, a scientific collecting permit from the Blue Ridge Parkway allowed us the opportunity to collect aquatic oligochaetes on 20 August from four spring/seep areas along the Parkway, all located near BRP mile marker 450.
During this visit, we also had the opportunity to demonstrate our field techniques for collecting aquatic macroinvertebrates and water quality monitoring to Jennifer Arnold Love and other educational specialists / naturalists working at the Great Smoky Mountain Institute at Tremont.
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Specific locality information for sites surveyed in August 2005 is provided
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Public Outreach during 2005
A highlight of August 2005 field trip to the Park was the opportunity to demonstrate our field techniques for collecting aquatic macroinvertebrates and water quality monitoring to Jennifer Arnold Love and other educational specialists / naturalists working at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont.
Presentations in 2005
1. "The Aquatic Oligochaeta (Annelida, Clitellata) of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee, USA." 31st meeting of the Carolinas Area Benthologists Workshop, Duke Energy facilities, Huntersville, NC, 18 March 2005 [presentation co-authored with M.A. Peggy Morgan].
2. "The Aquatic Oligochaeta (Annelida, Clitellata) of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee. Update: December 2005." Annual meeting of the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory Program underwritten by Discover Life In America, Inc., Glenstone Lodge, Gatlinburg, TN, 6-9 December 2005. [presentation co-authored with M.A. Peggy Morgan].
This research adheres as closely as possible to the tenets of the ATBI Science Plan, available as a downloadable PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader is necessary to open and read this document).
Please familiarize yourself with the navigation bar a the bottom of this page; from there you can access numerous aspects of this research on aquatic oligochaetes in the Park, including site locality information and map of the Park; field and lab methodologies; progress; links to sponsors of this research; an acknowledgment page recognizing the numerous people whose collective assistance has been instrumental in the conduct of this research; publications and presentations summarizing progress on this research; a literature cited section (full citations for references in the text of webpages associated with this website); and short-and long-term goals of this project.
I especially encourage you to visit the Discover Life in America, Inc. (DLIA) website; there you will find contact information for scientists associated with the various taxonomic working groups (TWIGS), volunteers already contributing to this project, the administrative and scientific staff of DLIA, and a variety of opportunities for public involvement in research and education in the Park. Please Note: The new DLIA / ATBI website has been expanded extensively over the last year; please visit and familiarize yourself with its own 'virtual' diversity of information and resources!
page update: 12 April 2010