Biology at SCC
Freshwater Ecology & Watershed Research

Students · field records

Submit a Field Observation

Record a site visit from your phone. Attach your photos and the form reads the time and location saved in them. A faculty reviewer checks every entry before anything appears on this website.

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Photos

Up to 6 photos: looking upstream, looking downstream, the stream bed, and close-ups of anything green, blue-green or slimy. No people's faces.

    How the form reads your photos

    Phone cameras save the date, time and often the GPS position inside each photo. The form reads those on your phone and fills in the time and location below — you can change them. It then shrinks each photo (to at most 1600 pixels) and makes a fresh copy without the hidden data, so your phone model and exact position are never published inside the image. The time, position and camera model are kept as separate fields that only the reviewer sees until the entry is approved.

    Many phones remove the location when a photo is shared with a website. If no location is found, use your current location (if you are at the site) or tap the map.

    When and where

    e.g., "culvert", "riffle below footbridge", "AB-1" once stations are marked.

    Location

    No location yet.

    Or tap the map to place the point (drag it to adjust).

    Type coordinates instead

    Conditions

    Rain in the last 24–72 hours and where you got it, e.g., "about 1 in. on Monday (Kentucky Mesonet, Somerset)".

    Stream bed (check all you see)
    Visible biofilm or algae

    Measurements (if you took any)

    Units are fixed. Leave a row blank if you did not measure it. See the measurement methods.

    Enter measurements

    Organisms and notes

    Provisional only — say how far you got, e.g., "filamentous green alga, possibly Cladophora (field ID, not microscope)". See the organism atlas.

    Who was there

    At least one name is required so faculty know whose entry it is. A name appears on the website only if its box is checked, and only after approval.

    Check and send

    From your instructor. Scanning the class QR code fills it in.

    Before you send

    Open this form on another phone

    QR code linking to this observation form
    Scan with a phone camera to open this form. The class code is not in this code — your instructor's class QR includes it.