LEVEL 2: PROCESSING

The goal of level two is to provide a descriptive representation of your collection.

We still want to get you in the water trawling but now,

we want you to go through the samples and tell us exactly what you see.

Note: Samples should initially be placed in an airtight jar filled with one to two caps full of hydrogen peroxide and water directly after trawling.

Tools and Materials

STEP 1

STEP 2

STEP 3

STEP 4

STEP 5

STEP 5

Gloves

to keep your hands clean

Tweezers

to meticulously sort the sample

Paper Towel

to dry the samples

 .5 mm Grid Paper

to log/document the samples

Take out the samples from jar.

Drain the net.

Flip the net inside out

(Before)

(After)

Let your the sample dry for 10 minutes in the net.

Use tweezers to pick out the samples from the net. 

Sort the inorganic and organic material using tweezers from the net on to the .5mm grid paper.

Photograph your findings and upload the data to our Pollution page and recycle the sample accordingly.