1. More than you ever wanted to know about local creeks and rivers or How I learned to stop worrying about Afghanistan, imbecilic politicians and my love life by visiting the same crummy locations month after month and year after year.

8. Atascadero Creek: Jan. 9, 2005 (above), May 5, 2005 (below) at Puente Ave. at Patterson Ave.

15. 225 square miles 20 inches/yr rainfall

16. From the Shell Bridge, Ventura River: Feb. 2, 2005 (above), Oct. 2, 2004 (below) looking upstream looking downstream

17. From the Main Street Bridge, Ventura River: Feb. 2, 2005 (above), Oct. 2, 2004 (below) looking downstream looking upstream

18. from left to right July 2001 August 2002 March 2003 October 2003 Sept. 2004 May 2005

19. June 2005 October 2006 September 2007 May 2008 November 2008 June 2009

20. Data Collection What? Why? Where? When?

22. Dissolved Oxygen pHpH

33. "Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself.“ But I’ll add that we often do... I’ll let a great scientist, Richard Feynman, have almost the last word...

34. Not quite the end: Over the years I’ve given similar programs to the same class. The beginning, a look at local hydrology, has been the same now for three or four years (but with updated slides), but the second half has changed depending on whatever topic was of current interest to me. That said, some of last year’s slides, while no longer interesting to me, might be of interest to you and I’ve left them in. They follow. They mainly concern looking at patterns in data and nutrient differences between the various Goleta Creeks monitored by Santa Barbara Channelkeeper. So look ‘em over if you are so inclined. And if any of you have further questions I can be emailed at al.leydecker@cox.net I also maintain a download webpage at http://sbc.lternet.edu/~leydecke/Al's_stuff/ http://sbc.lternet.edu/~leydecke/Al's_stuff/ which contains lots of past reports, photos, presentations and whatever. And lots of the same stuff, and more, can be found on the Channelkeeper water quality monitoring website: http://www.stream-team.org/http://www.stream-team.org/