Salton Sea Research Paper

The Great Salt Lake is located in the northern part of Utah. The lake has a high salinity and although it has more salt than seawater it is still able to sustain different species like birds or shrimps unlike the Dead Sea. The standard microbes that are a part of the ecosystem of the northern part of the lake in order of most populated: bacteria of at least two genera,Halobacterium and Halococcus; two algae ,Dunaliella salina and D. Viridis. The algae and bacteria live off each other by being the others nutrients. The reason for this is because bacteria produce ammonia, which algae uses for nutrients, while the organic matter that algae makes is used by bacteria as nutrients. Animals eat algae and cold temperatures during winter stunt metabolism

Although Salt to the Sea is a story about things that have been lost and people enduring extreme hardships, it is also a story about hope, family and love. In the book Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys, almost all of the main characters go through extremely tragic and terrible events. However, these characters also experience family moments and happy times. Despite the fact that in times of war there is hardship, violence and death, love and family shines through the tragedy. It is the two youngest members of the group, Klaus and Emilia, who eventually find a family to love.

The 1954 film Salt of the Earth directed by Herbert J. Biberman, is set in New Mexico and is about the Hispanic miners working for Delaware Zinc, a mining company, and the plot of the movie is about how the miners go on strike till they are treated equally the same as the other non-Hispanic miners. The miners’ strike goes on for months and the company decides to hold out on the workers by scaring the old workers with new miners to take their jobs, and during that time the wives of the miners decided to take it upon themselves to put themselves on the frontlines with the men because the women are also fighting for something else sanitation. News gets out about the strike and many supporters send letters with money

World War Two resulted in a chaotic destruction that overwhelmed Europe. These feelings of dismay are concisely summarized in Ruta Sepetys’ Salt of the Sea.. An impactful quote states, “war had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray.” The war in 1945 had drained any and all feelings of hope and spirit out of European people. In it’s wake, the war left a cloud of devastation and despair. Florian and Joana have to overcome this war, their fate, and guilt in order to return to their past selves and survive their journey in a German and Russian warzone.

On June 19th, my classmates and I had field trip for Oceanography Lab (OCN 101) class with Professor Ocean Matt Horrigan. We went to Corte Madera Salt Marsh, which is located 12 miles North of San Francisco, to examine how rising and falling of tide effect on

(Salton Sea Symposium, 1998) However , the condition of the Sea has drastically changed and so has the amount of healthy living organisms in the Sea. By the 1980�s the water level rose greatly and gave way to abandoned businesses, deteriorating structures and empty beaches. The above was due to the fact that evaporation is the only outlet to the Salton Sea , in fact 1.35 million acre feet of water is lost each year , thus increasing its salinity even more. The salinity of the Salton Sea has increased to 45,000 parts per thousand or 45 PPT; the Pacific Ocean is currently 35 PPT.

21st century Americans often forget that our first best roads were not roads at all, but rivers. One of the first national infrastructure projects was a national road that allowed horses and wagons to safely travel from Maryland to Ohio, mostly across Southern Pennsylvania. If a Cincinnati farmer wanted to send his goods to the east coast in the early 19th century, it was cheaper and faster to send it down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers around the coast of Florida and up the east coast rather than to send it overland from Ohio.

From being a resort area filled with numerous yachts, the Salton Sea has become an abandoned destination since the late 20th century. The Salton Sea was created by accident; with an exponential increase in precipitation, water diverted from the Colorado River to Imperial Valley creating the Salton Sea. Through its early years, the Salton Sea was a tourist attraction. It was an inland sea, allowing the public to ride boats and fish. Soon after, the Imperial Valley needed a drainage lake, and the federal government permitted the Salton Sea to be utilized for this specific purpose. Salton Sea became a lake where residues from fertilizers as well as pesticides such as DDT fertilizers and hazardous chemicals were dumped into without any regulation.

Saltwater intrusion leading to contaminated drinking water wells has long been feared in South Florida. Saltwater intrusion occurs naturally to some degree in most coastal aquifers, owing to the hydraulic connection between groundwater and seawater. Because saltwater has a higher mineral content than freshwater, it is denser and has a higher water pressure. There are three primary mechanisms by which saltwater contaminates the freshwater reservoir in the unconfined, surficial aquifers of the region: one, subsurface movement of seawater (lateral large-scale intrusion), two, seepage of seawater from tidal canals and streams, and three, upward movement of connate saltwater (water remaining from the

(Washington Fish and Wildlife Office, 2007). The San Francisco Bay has historically had over 190,000 acres of salt

Imagine yourself being a Hebrew during the time of Moses and crossing the Red Sea while more than six hundred Egyptian soldiers run after you. You would have no time to think but by previous knowledge you are aware of the depth of the ocean, in this case the soldiers would have caught up to you by now since they were at an advantage because of the speed they had with their horses and chariots once they were at downfall. Regardless of the advantage that the Egyptians had, by some miracle you make it across and the rest of the army is drowned with vigor. The ocean as ancient as the time of the dinosaurs is millions of miles in depth and millions of miles in width and length, if such a miracle would not have ocurred

Salt water intrusion is the movement of saline water into freshwater aquifers. Changes in the climate and sea level drives changes to the coastal groundwater system, which affects the public groundwater supply wells. A study on the impact of sea level rise on saltwater intrusion

The Salton Sea is an unique location as it is one of the few environments in the world that has wildlife but also lots of impact. Hydrogen Sulfide is one of the primary chemicals that exists in this location. The Aral Sea in between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan has great similarity with the Salton Sea, as it shows a possible future for the location. Hydrogen sulfide has a naturally occurring rotten egg smell which is very a clear and obvious scent to humans. Hydrogen sulfide itself exists endogenously and exogenously, from enzymes within mammals and through industrial processes and factories (Chou 2003). Biological processes such as photosynthesis added to anaerobic environment of the Salton Sea, creating a warm, oxygen depleted body of water

Drinking salt water has it’s pros and cons. The website National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) states that drinking seawater can be deadly. When humans drink salt water their cells are taking in water and salt. While people are able to ingest small amounts of salt, the amount of salt in seawater is a lot more than what what the human body can take. When we consume salt as a part of our daily diets, we also drink liquids, which helps dilute the salt and keeps it at a healthy level. Human kidneys can only make urine that is less salty than water. Therefore to get rid of all the extra salt taken in by drinking seawater you would have to urinate more water than you drank. Leading to dehydration, which would cause death to someone

There are so many unbelievable charities in the world that do incredible things. To choose just one charity to donate 10 million dollars to is extremely hard, but the charity that I choose is the Oceanic Society. What the Oceanic Society does is to help improve the oceans health  by addressing the main problem, which is human behavior. Their mission is conserve marine life and their habitats by connecting people and nature. The Oceanic Society has many projects that they are specifically working to help marine life. They are widely acclaimed for their projects for maine life and their habitats. Some of those projects are the Belize Bottlenose Dolphin Research, California Whale Rescue, and the Drifters Program. Pollution is a huge adversary for the Oceanic Society because they can only do so much to help without us doing our part, and stop polluting the oceans. This is a program that I am a strong advocate for. I am a fanatic about trying to protect our oceans and marine life.