Environment assignment number one
Beluga whale case study
Omar Soliman

The degradation of beluga population at the St. Lawrence Estuary derives as a direct result of Anthropogenic factors. Severe and sudden changes in climate are undesirably affecting the oxygen saturation within the waters, and hence negatively affect beluga respiration patterns. The main concern with the experiment is that there might be other organisms that are newly introduced and flourish on behalf of the native beluga whales, and as a result deplete their current oxygen saturation levels. In this experiment, different kinds of algal groups will be observed. The reason why algal groups were chosen was because of their ability to considerably affect oxygen saturation levels, and the fact that they favor warmer climates. The following measurements must be taken. Primarily, a sample of deceased carcasses will be sufficient to measure oxygen intake. Blood samples and extracts will determine exactly if they are respiring naturally or not, and even indicate whether the quality of oxygen saturation has been affected. Secondly, devices that should measure oxygen saturation within the habitat must be deployed. This will give a much more reliable answer, in the case that the sampled whales show significant distortion in results. This could be in the case that the whales had a respiratory disease that affected them, or their blood stream might have been polluted with toxins that might have lowered the oxygen concentration. Finally, the algal species themselves need to be analyzed. In doing so, the exact oxygen saturation they respire will be collected numerically and evaluated. This can be done by an algal test and see how much oxygen concentrate they actually respire, and how it compares to that of the whales. By linking these statistics, it becomes easy to determine what is truly detrimental to the