{"id":507,"date":"2020-05-01T10:20:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T17:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/?p=507"},"modified":"2020-05-01T10:20:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T17:20:09","slug":"organic-matter-processing-canvas-strips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/organic-matter-processing-canvas-strips\/","title":{"rendered":"Organic Matter Processing \u2013 Canvas Strips!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/05\/canvasstrips1-225x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/05\/canvasstrips1-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/05\/canvasstrips1.png 468w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption> Evergreen undergraduate Maya\u00a0Nabipoor\u00a0getting ready to install canvas strips in Geo-West Creek on the Pumice Plain of Mount St. Helens. Photo by Carri LeRoy\u00a0 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>To assess organic matter processing (OMP) within streams across the Pumice Plain, a subset of our research focuses on the use of canvas strips! Canvas strips are a standardized method to accurately examine in-stream ecosystem function. (Tiegs et al. 2013). @ScottTiegs\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canvas strips with\nmetal ID tags are placed across the streams and riparian zones of the Pumice\nPlain. This is done to measure how OMP rates vary across environmental\ndifferences in early successional streams of Mount St. Helens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"468\" height=\"624\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/05\/canvasstrip2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/05\/canvasstrip2.png 468w, https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/528\/2020\/05\/canvasstrip2-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><figcaption> Canvas strips\u00a0are\u00a0used to estimate organic matter processing rates in streams and in riparian zones on the Pumice Plain of Mount St. Helens. Photo by Carri LeRoy\u00a0 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to measure\nOMP, canvas strip assays rely on the loss of tensile strength that corresponds\nto cellulose degradation while in-stream. Through collaborations with the\nOlympic College, our team measured this using a giant machine called a\ntensiometer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To assess organic matter processing (OMP) within streams across the Pumice Plain, a subset of our research focuses on the use of canvas strips! Canvas strips are a standardized method to accurately examine in-stream ecosystem function. (Tiegs et al. 2013). @ScottTiegs\u00a0 Canvas strips with metal ID tags are placed across the streams and riparian zones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7504,"featured_media":508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6,4,5],"tags":[38,40,31,57,44,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/l3notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}