Festival of Nature 2010

Investigate the water in Bristol’s docks with At-Bristol at the Festival of Nature

Join At-Bristol over the weekend of 12^th and 13^th June in Millennium Square to investigate what’s in the water of the docks and how it compares to water from a local river. 

There are many types of organism that live in water. These range from the largest fish and mammals, down to microscopic organisms called diatoms and algae. A clean, healthy river, lake, or dock may have many types of organism living in it, and because big things eat little things, the range of fish or crustaceans present depends on the range of tiny animals like water fleas, which in turn depend on the range of microscopic algae – and the range algae depends on the levels of various chemicals which are present naturally and unnaturally in the water.

By investigating with microscopes and testing probes, we’ll give you the chance to collect some data and help us build up a picture of the water in the docks. Your data will be put together with every other visitor’s and we will make the results available on this webpage for you to look at when you get home. Maybe you could even do your own analysis of the results?

The Festival of Nature and the activities present are free for all, and will be running from 10am – 6pm on Saturday 12^th and Sunday 13^th June. At-Bristol’s tent will be in Lloyds amphitheatre, next to the tower in the middle.

 Download the 2010 Festival of Nature Dock Water Data