This water quality was really interesting. Over the weekend, the water temperature rose almost 10 degrees, which for water is a significant amount. I did take the sample later in the morning and at low tide, but even with those two contributing factors, the increase was pretty drastic. (The graph below shows the temperature change since the beginning of the project. The small diamonds indicate a data point and the line is more to demonstrate the trend. Aside from the temperature, there was a large increase in the cell density. I found this strange, since the absorbance did not go up as well. However it is most likely since the cells are still quite small.
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