Our enthusiastic Year 7 students have been busy conducting some scientific field work at two locations.
The testing at Olinda Creek is part of the Melbourne Water River Detectives program, which has had our students collect and contribute citizenship data about our local waterways since 2017.
This year we are excited to have added the monitoring of a second waterway site — the Nelson Drain at the MLMC Quarry Rd outdoor classroom. This area is of specific scientific interest to us as we hope to see large changes to the ecosystem health as the result of land rehabilitation works done by MLMC students.
At both sites students assessed the health of the habitat through observations of the vegetation, water and human impacts on the area. They also engaged in water tests to learn how to establish the current measures and analyse whether they sit within a healthy range.
