...The Great Salt Lake INT1 Task 2 (Ha’Eri, 2004) Location ● The Great Salt Lake is located in northern Utah. (USGS, n.d., b) Biotic Components ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Brine Shrimp Brine Flies Algae Ducks Geese Gulls Pelicans (Wikipedia, n.d.) (Wurstsbaugh, 2014, d) Abiotic Components -Surface elevation 4200 feet above sea level -Depth averages 14 feet -Railroad crosses through the lake -Averages 15.7 inches of precipitation per year -Water temperature varies from below freezing to 80 degrees Fahrenheit. (Gwynn, 2002) Current Human Impact -Humans building a railway through The Great Salt Lake has divided the lake and caused that half of the lake has a higher salinity percentage than the other half. This is caused by the South end has more fresh water flowing into it and the North end has more salt water flowing through it. Because of the railway, it doesn’t pass through to the other side. The percentage of salinity is affecting the brine shrimp eggs harvest. It has decreased. The residents in the Salt Lake area use more water than the average people in the country. Not conserving and using so much water is affecting the water levels of the Great Salt Lake. The lake is getting smaller each year. (USGS, 1999) Future Human Impacts -If current water usage trends continue, the lake will continue to get smaller and smaller. With future growth of the area expected to triple in the next 50 years, Utahns are facing...
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...The spiral, composed entirely of black basalt rocks and Earth from the site, stretches 1,500 feet long and was created on the floor of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. This work of art is one of the most pure forms of nature, because it is made entirely of nature. Smithson moved 6,650 tons of rock with the help of Bob Phillips from Parson's Construction. Robert Smithson had trouble convincing a contractor to help move the rocks into the lake due to the “oddness” of the request, but he finally found a company willing to comply. The two men worked together on the six day task to create the piece of Art. At the time of the creation of the spiral, The Great Salt Lake was experiencing a drought, which enabled the construction. A few years after the project was finished, Spiral Jetty had completely submerged into the Great Salt Lake, not to appear again for three decades. The piece has made a few spontaneous yet short appearances since 2002 before going under again. The Spiral Jetty is a work of Art because Robert Smithson had an idea. He believed in the piece and expressed himself through the creation and application of his idea. Art is different to everyone, but I believe art can literally be anything someone creates and believes in. Spiral Jetty would not have been created had Robert Smithson not believed that he could create something great. The piece represents nature, because it is nature. Everything in the project occurs naturally, it was simply moved around to make something...
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...Elevation Chart of the Great Salt LakePhysical CharacteristicsThe wetland I am doing is the Great Salt Lake. The precipitation is 20% but usually in Jan. it is 1.45, in Feb. it is 1.54, in Mar. 2.22, in April it is 2.33, in May it is 2.1 in June it is 1.13, in July it is 0.59, in Aug. it is 0.71, in Sep. it is 1.52, in Oct it is 1.64, in Nov. it is 1.78, in Dec. it is 1.62The temperature is 60-40 degrees Fahrenheit. The highest elevation was in 1986 at 4,212 feet above sea level. The surface terrain at the Great Salt Lake is sandy, rough, rocky, and kind of grassy.The wetlands are different than deserts because the deserts are humid, hot, and dry, and the wetlands are swampy, wet, and messy. Also wetlands are different from forests because forests are for camping and fun, wetlands are filled with salt for people to swim in. | | | Where in Utah? | | | | | | | | | | Utah’s wetlands the great salt lake | Kayla Bell | | Cattails along the Great Salt LakeCommon PlantsCattails look like hotdogs but don’tEat them you will get an ugly surprise.Duck Weed is mostly on water not landThey look like weeds that might be in Your back yard. Arrow grass is a plant That looks like a stick with flowers. BalticRush is a plant that looks like a poison Plant but really isn’t. Stream Orchid looks Like vines with pretty flowers. SouthernMaidenhair fern is a plant that looks like a bush. | | | Common Animals In Wetlands.Tiger Trout is a fish that looks like a tiger...
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...children to go after their dreams. I have dreams of my own and have received very positive feedback from several personal and business friends. I hold back for one reason, I don’t have any support from my spouse. To her, it’s a foolish and vain ambition. So with my entrepreneurial needs lying dormant, I encourage everyone I meet to go for it! My father is an attorney and his father was a cattle rancher. As I was growing up in the home, my father shared with me a dream he had, but he never fulfilled that dream. He didn’t go for it! His dream was to own and operate a premium cycling shop in Salt Lake City. At the time, back in the 1980’s there was Fishers in Sugarhouse and a few, less premium, shops scattered about the valley. Today, there are dozens of successful, independent, premium cycling shops along the Wasatch Front. My father saw the vision and had the passion, but did not go for it. I have a great friend and tax client named Steve Savage. We both worked at Datamark together. At the time of his employment at Datamark, he was their lead account manager over their largest client, Corinthian Colleges. Steve and I both left the company around the same time. Both of us took positions with other firms. As we would meet occasionally for lunch we would discuss our individual entrepreneurial dreams. Steve had mastered the online lead generation business at Datamark and was now building a multi-million dollar revenue department for his new employer. Steve wondered why he was building this...
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...revisions and then engage with prospects and customers will depend on the training you receive at the conference. There will be no wasted time, only very detailed, comprehensive training delivered in a concise set of training sessions. Presenters and Training Sessions: (Presenters and times are subject to change.) Friday, April 26, Noon – 2:00 pm: Directors Only Meeting. Friday, April 26, 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm: Ø Jim Paré will deliver an overview on what the New Vault Denim will mean to your business, your income and prospects for the future. Ø Blair Singer (the guru of Accelerated Learning Techniques and Experiential Training) will teach a session on Developing Skills for Advanced Team Leadership. Vault Denim • 5525 South 9th East • Salt Lake City, UT 84117 • 801-727-7970 Ø Assist Cornerstone (developer of the new Vault back-office system) will teach an overview of how to use the new back office. Saturday, April 27, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm: Ø Jim Pare will explain the new Comp Plan. The new comp plan is very detailed and comprehensive. No VFC will completely understand the new plan without in-depth training. The more you understand about the Comp Plan the better you can run your Vault Denim business and take advantage of...
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...SWOT Analysis Assignment Sam Weller’s Bookstore Marketing 1030 B. Ledesma Oct. 26, 2011 Brief History Sam Weller’s Bookstore was founded in 1925 by Mormon converts Gustav and his wife Margaret Weller, who emigrated from Germany to Salt Lake City. The bookstore started off as a used furniture store, "Salt Lake Bedding, Furniture & Radio Shop," and after a large purchase of used books and a larger location, it became known as Zion’s Bookstore and mainly sold second hand books about the Latter Day Saints. It is now owned and operated by Tony and his wife Cathryn Weller, who comes from a library background. Tony started working at the bookstore since the age of 10 but fully committed himself to it in the 1980s. Between the 1940s and 200s, Sam Wellers operated half a dozen stores throughout the valley, most being new bookstores and even including a textbook store. The current owner, Tony Weller, boasts a literary background and has held positions in The Downtown Alliance, The Chamber of Commerce, The Vest Pocket Coalition and the Salt Lake Downtown Merchants Associations, of which he is a former President, and was also on the board of the Intermountain Independent Booksellers Associations. Products & Services Sam Weller’s Bookstore offers traditional bookstore services; new books, used books and rare books. The owner also operates an appraisal service in the rare books department. The business also offers a café to relax and enjoy reading and polite conversation. The...
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...There has been an unprecedented number in the death of bald eagles in Utah the months of November and December. It has happened near the Great Salt Lake area where thousands of eared grebes migrate. Although the migration of eared grebes is a common for the area, the numbers of bald eagles killed is not. It is believed that the West Nile virus is to be the blame for the resent deaths in bald eagles, however other test are being performed. Bird deaths that are tied to the West Nile virus usually occur in the warm months when mosquitoes are more active, which is the primary vector. However the extended period of warmer months that Utah has experienced this year gave the mosquitoes a long breading time. Scientist are not capable of proving if the eared grebes came into Utah infected with the West Nile virus or if they were infected when they migrated to Utah. All that has been confirmed is that the recent deaths of the bald eagles have been due to the West Nile virus. According to global animal the West Nile virus is responsible for at least twenty-seven bald eagle deaths and five contaminated eagles. It is thought that the bald eagles contacted the virus by feeding on the carcasses of the bird known as the eared grebe. According to global animal nearly twenty thousand of eared grebes have died since November outside the Salt Lake City, making it the biggest outbreak North America has seen thus far. Seeing as bald eagles are scavenger birds they would have more than likely feed...
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...article: Marine ecosystem Marine ecosystems cover approximately 71% of the Earth's surface and contain approximately 97% of the planet's water. They generate 32% of the world's net primary production.[1] They are distinguished from freshwater ecosystems by the presence of dissolved compounds, especially salts, in the water. Approximately 85% of the dissolved materials in seawater are sodium and chlorine. Seawater has an average salinity of 35 parts per thousand (ppt) of water. Actual salinity varies among different marine ecosystems.[2] Marine ecosystems can be divided into the following zones: oceanic (the open part of the ocean where animals such as whales, sharks, and tuna live); profundal (bottom or deep water); benthic (bottom substrates); intertidal (the area between high and low tides); estuaries; salt marshes; coral reefs; and hydrothermal vents (where chemosynthetic sulfur bacteria form the food base).[1] Classes of organisms found in marine ecosystems include brown algae, dinoflagellates, corals, cephalopods, echinoderms, and sharks. Fishes caught in marine ecosystems are the biggest source of commercial foods obtained from wild populations.[1] Environmental problems concerning marine ecosystems include unsustainable exploitation of marine resources (for example overfishing of certain species), marine pollution, climate change, and building on coastal areas.[1] Freshwater Freshwater ecosystem. Main article: Freshwater ecosystem Freshwater ecosystems cover 0.80%...
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...------------------------------------------------- Freshwater ecosystem From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Freshwater angelfish Freshwater ecosystems are a subset of Earth's aquatic ecosystems. They include lakes and ponds, rivers, streams, springs, and wetlands. They can be contrasted with marine ecosystems, which have a larger salt content. Freshwater habitats can be classified by different factors, including temperature, light penetration, and vegetation. Freshwater ecosystems can be divided into lentic ecosystems (still water) andlotic ecosystems (flowing water). Limnology (and its branch freshwater biology) is a study about freshwater ecosystems. It is a part of hydrobiology. Original efforts to understand and monitor freshwater ecosystems were spurred on by threats to human health (ex. Cholera outbreaks due to sewage contamination). Early monitoring focussed on chemical indicators, then bacteria, and finally algae, fungi and protozoa. A new type of monitoring involves differing groups of organisms (macroinvertebrates, macrophytes and fish) and the stream conditions associated with them. Current biomonitering techniques focus mainly on community structure or biochemical oxygen demand. Responses are measured by behavioural changes, altered rates of growth, reproduction or mortality. Macroinvertebrates are most often used in these models because of well known taxonomy, ease of collection, sensitivity to a range of stressors, and their overall value to the ecosystem. Most of these measurements are...
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...Effects of Water Pollution in Lake Huron The Great Lakes, Lake Erie, Michigan, Huron, Superior, and Ontario, are our largest freshwater system. Lake Huron, like the other Great Lakes contain many species of wildlife, and is in danger of being polluted. This pollution is harmful to fish, wildlife stocks, and to the humans of this region. At the University of Mississippi, Latham, A., Wright, E., & Tsang, A. [n.d.] produced a study that focused specifically on Pollution's Effects on the Great Lakes Ecosystem. Determining the causes and effects of water pollution in Lake Huron may facilitate new ideas and solutions for cleaning up our waterways’ and improving public health. Although there are many causes of Lake Huron’s pollution, most fall under three categories: 1) Point-source pollution; 2) Nonpoint-source pollution; and 3) Air pollution. Point-source pollution refers to mercury, fecal matter, and sewage, from treatment plants or industrial facilities, being dumped into the Lake. Nonpoint-source pollution refers to runoff of polluted water from crops or lawns which contain contaminants. These contaminants may be oil, sand, salt from roadways, agricultural chemicals, and nutrients and toxic materials from urban or rural areas (The Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation, 1998-2012). Additionally, air pollution is also a major concern. According to the Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation, “…the air quality of the Ontario Lake Huron Shoreline is among the...
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...An ecosystem is a community of living organisms (plants, animals and microbes) in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment (things like air, water and mineral soil), interacting as a system.[2] These components are regarded as linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows.[3] As ecosystems are defined by the network of interactions among organisms, and between organisms and their environment,[4] they can come in any size but usually encompass specific, limited spaces[5] (although some scientists say that the entire planet is an ecosystem).[6] History and development Arthur Tansley, a British ecologist, was the first person to use the term "ecosystem" in a published work.[fn 1][10] Tansley devised the concept to draw attention to the importance of transfers of materials between organisms and their environment.[11] He later refined the term, describing it as "The whole system, ... including not only the organism-complex, but also the whole complex of physical factors forming what we call the environment".[12] Tansley regarded ecosystems not simply as natural units, but as mental isolates.[12] Tansley later[13] defined the spatial extent of ecosystems using the term ecotope. G. Evelyn Hutchinson, a pioneering limnologist who was a contemporary of Tansley's, combined Charles Elton's ideas about trophic ecology with those of Russian geochemist Vladimir Vernadsky to suggest that mineral nutrient availability in a lake limited algal production...
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...According to Wikipedia the definition of water pollution is the contamination of water bodies (e.g. lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers and ground water). Water pollution occurs when pollutants are discharged directly or indirectly into water bodies without adequate treatment to remove harmful compounds. # During the 18th and 19th centuries it was believed that water could dilute any substance and people would use the rivers and lakes as dumping ground for waste. Without thinking about contamination and their downstream neighbors animal carcasses, industrial effluent and raw sewage were often dumped into waterways. The main ways that pollutants enter the Great Lakes region are point source pollution, non point source pollution and atmospheric pollution. Point source pollution is when pollutants enter through a specific point such as a drainage pipe. This can be traced back to a specific owner and point. Non point source pollution such as sediment from construction sites and eroding shorelines; fertilizer and pesticides from homeowners and farms; human and animal waste; and oil, grease and salt from highways are harder to trace to a specific owner or entry point. This is usually when rain or snowmelt move over the land which picks up pollutants and dumps them into water bodies. Atmospheric pollution is when the pollution falls form the sky and is another form of non point pollution. Waste incinerators and coal burning energy plants are a major cause of atmospheric pollution...
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...Biology 2F03: Lecture 1 Chapter 2: Life on Land • • • • • • • • Labs start on the Sept 17 Why horses and cattle help restore Guanacaste forest of Costa Rica? o This forest was in decline for thousands of years, when Indians colonized central America, it caused its decline. o Its regenerated when the Europeans came with the cattle o The trees only produce a new plant after processes: the fallen fruit has to be eaten by a larger animal (mule, or horse or cow) à it has to pass through the body and ends up in a pile of fertilizer only then it can regenerate and produce a tree o Why did it evolve to be depended to this process? § There must be animals there in the past, in the past it was a camel (llama, alpaca). When the Indians came from asia (50000 years ago) these animals went extinct and the tree lost its major dispersal system What is the most obvious foundation of life on land? o Is landà soil Climate defines biomes, the ‘shapes’ of vegetation o Defines the major types of land on earth o Temperature and precipitation to be specific Soils in turn greatly affect the aspects (roots, water, nutrient) à rentention, root attachment, etc. Soil typically form layers (horizontal) retaining a range of physical and chemical layers: o Classification of soil: O= organic, A, B, C Soil horizons: description o O: organic, litter on top, fine litter deeper (gets broken down, hence fine), pollen, dead organisms o A: mineral soil, some organic matter...
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...primary nutrients critical for the survival of all living organisms. Although nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere, it is largely inaccessible in this form to most organisms. This article explores how nitrogen becomes available to organisms and what changes in nitrogen levels as a result of human activity means to local and global ecosystems. Introduction Nitrogen is one of the primary nutrients critical for the survival of all living organisms. It is a necessary component of many biomolecules, including proteins, DNA, and chlorophyll. Although nitrogen is very abundant in the atmosphere as dinitrogen gas (N2), it is largely inaccessible in this form to most organisms, making nitrogen a scarce resource and often limiting primary productivity in many ecosystems. Only when nitrogen is converted from dinitrogen gas into ammonia (NH3) does it become available to primary producers, such as plants. In addition to N2 and NH3, nitrogen exists in many different forms, including both inorganic (e.g., ammonia, nitrate) and organic (e.g., amino and nucleic acids) forms. Thus, nitrogen undergoes many different transformations in the ecosystem, changing from one form to another as organisms use it for growth and, in some cases, energy. The major transformations of nitrogen are nitrogen fixation, nitrification, denitrification, anammox, and ammonification (Figure 1). The transformation of nitrogen into its many oxidation states is key to productivity in the biosphere and is highly...
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... Chemical Environment: Estuaries contain brackish water, which is a mix of fresh and salt water. The salinity is never more than in normal ocean water, and decreases the further inland you go. Compounds that reach the ocean by runoff are present in estuaries. Geologic Features: An estuary is semi-enclosed, with the ocean at one end and a river on the other. Estuaries are not affected by the seasons. Biotic Factors Producers include, algae, phytoplankton, spike grass, cordgrass, sea grass, purple loosestrife, sea lavender, and other aquatic plants. Consumers include many different birds, fish, crustaceans, bivalves, and microscopic organisms. Estuaries are very vulnerable to runoff from nearby farms. Many estuaries have experienced great human impact from the widening of the mouth, where the estuary meets the sea, to allow ships to pass through. This causes erosion and higher salinity within the ecosystem. Invasive species include purple loosestrife, which suppresses native species, and Asian clams, which cover the riverbed and clog pipes. Policy The Estuary Protection Act highlighted the values of estuaries and the need to conserve their natural resources. It authorized the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with other Federal agencies and the States, to study and inventory estuaries of the United States, including land and water of the Great Lakes, and to determine whether the Federal Government for protection should acquire such areas...
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