Claire's Freshwater Algae Project

My project this semester is to catalog the temporal changes in the taxonomic composition of freshwater algae in Pickerel Lake, located in southeast Michigan. Planktonic and benthic samples were taken from the beach and off the boardwalk.

The entry for each of the three samples contains a pie chart of the abundance of the major algal divisions, lists of all genera observed (sorted by prevalence), and photographs of specimens and other organisms seen while sampling.