Have you ever wondered what a bottle of river water can tell us? It may look ordinary, but to a scientist, it’s like opening a mystery novel. it can reveal whether a coastal ecosystem is healthy, whether harmful algal blooms are beginning to form, and even whether fish and other aquatic life have enough oxygen […]

This post follows one field day of a GEM-in-a-Box field enumerator, from a 6:30 AM start to sample collection in the Rupsha River near the Sundarbans. It shows the real, muddy, tiring work behind coastal eutrophication research.