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At Proctor Academy there is small yet fascinating pond that is on its campus. The pond is in the center of the campus next to Shirley hall, Slocumb hall and the Lovejoy Library. On an everyday basis I get to pass the pond but I've never gone in it or tested whats in it. Over the pass couple of cold days in October Shashi and I had the chance to test whats the water is like and see what living organisms are in it. On an early Tuesday morning around 9:05, Shashi and I set out to our site and test the proctor pond. We were given materials from Alan that included a spoon, a net, a little magnifying glass, a pipette, a sheet that had all different types of creatures on it, a bucket where we put all things we scooped up and a little container where we put the creatures we found in. We picked sites where we would test and our site was right next to Shirley hall. My first examination of the pond was that there was a lot of biotic factors that was in it. There were...
In class Alan assigned us into three different groups and a certain location around the campus to looks for PBDE's. It was a pretty cool to go and look for products that may have a flame retardant tag on them. I was assigned to look for the tags in my room and in the Meeting House. In this search I had to move and rearrange a lot of things in the process. Label from chair in the Meeting House Where (what kind of room) did you find most of the flame retardant products? Throughout my search of trying to find flame retardant products at Proctor, I couldn't find any with tags or saying they are flame retardant. It was pretty frustrating finding no products with the tag on it because I was really looking forward to finding a product with the specific flame retardant tag on it. As I looked in the Meeting House I en...
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