Onekama High School students collected and tested water samples from Portage lake. Information gathered is used to monitor the quality of the Lake's water and is an ongoing project in its eighth year. Students take part in six different tests: water clarity, pH, dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll-a count, total phosphorus count, and temperature profile. Mr. Hughes, elementary principal and charter captain extraordinaire, takes the students and the instructor out to three testing sites in the spring and fall. The following pictures were from the spring field trip.

The "crew" for the spring testing: Ashley Bradford, Jessica Conroy, Ernie Jones, Jeremy Miller, Kim Edens, and Amanda Johnson.
Amanda Johnson, and Jessica Conroy records temperatures to help build the temperature profile at the west basin site
Jeremy Miller, Ernie Jones, and instructor Mr. Hunter collect samples for total phosphorus, pH, and dissolved oxygen at the west basin site.
Kim Edens, Ashley Bradford, and Amanda Johnson are all smiles as they wrap-up testing at the east basin site