Participants comments: 66 out of about 160 people fille dout the evaluation forms
1. What did you like most about the Agassiz scientific excursion?
- Informative
- Learning
- Algal blooms
- How the water temp works (I’m a retired commercial fisherman)
- Going out on boat
- The explanation Re: Lake changes, boat captain and education
- I always enjoy a chance to learn more about my local community
- The facts that we learned
- Seeing the secchi disc being used
- Very educational/interesting
- The knowledge
- The boat ride (4)
- The great boat cruise on the lake
- Data and explanation of study. Would like a tad more on tools used J
- Good explanations (2)
- Explanation of the cycles of water
- Muck
- Explanations/great attitude of presenter, easily understandable
- Boat ride (Ryan, 7), Lake plant growth info
- Explained all aspects VERY WELL!
- Learning about the disc
- Lake info
- Oxygen part of lake
- Whole ride was informative
- The ship, the captain, the first mate Anchors away!
- The presenter was excellent
- Equipment explanation
- Hands on
- Informative and easy to understand
- Learning about the research being done
- Science
- The lake, the explanation, the company…. The views
- Whats happening to lake bottom
- The explanation of copper extraction
- The scientist guide was very well informed. The captain was amazing.
- Living on Superior anything dealing with Great Lakes and connecting waters is very interesting.
- We enjoyed seeing the various types of equipment used.
- The water
- Photosynthesis and phytoplankton
- Information about the lake bottom
- The information he gave. Very interesting.
- The explanation of lake oxygen
- Examples of water changes with temperature and season were mentioned.
- Very good demonstration of the water equipment
- The examples
- Boat ride, science information
- Was fun and informative
- Learning more stuff about the lakes
- Secchi disk
- Learning on site
- The boat and eutrophication
- Explanation of dead zones
- Learned something about type of research Agassiz does
- Interesting topic
- Learning about the states of the water
2. How will you be able to incorporate the information you gained into your work or daily life? Explain.
- Understanding this can help waste disposal
- To know about water
- Don’t mess up the bottom
- Not sure – don’t put phosphorus in water
- Local village board, and local lake. Property owner.
- I can put up posters not to import plants or fish
- I think differently about the lakes
- Telling my class at school about it.
- Be careful not to pollute
- Good to understand about the phosphorus
- Consciousness and conservation, curiosity piqued as well!
- Water temps information was interesting
- Use less fertilizer
- I am involved with lake dredging from an economic development perspective and this provided new insights
- Knowing when and where to fish, and movement of unwanted fish and water life to lake Superior
- Be more eco-friendly
- Whether the water is safe or not
- I use less phosphate
- Tell who will listen
- I will watch out for sludge bugs (self-explanatory)
- It gives me a greater appreciation of the need for protecting resources
- Careful of what I put in drain and lake
- Relate people to their environment
- Improved general knowledge
- Will contact the crew to coordinate if possible with my atmospheric research
- Its always good knowledge to have
- Just to be aware of underwater life – may retain some info
- By understanding pollution’s impact, I can be more responsible in my treatment of the lake.
- Study the brochure
- Not sure - 3
- By not dumping phosphorous into the lakes
- Use it when you get back to school
- Don’t go by the water
- Satisfaction of general curiously/climate change awareness
- Do not discard items in water
- To keep the lake clean and safe for fishes
- Zooplankton information was interesting
- Not to dump phosphate in the lake
- Knowing where the best places to fish at
- Taking care of our lakes
- Choosing fertilizer I know not to have phosphate
- More respect for the lake and learning about what affects the lake
- Helpful when considering issues of stamp sand
- Understand more about what I’m seeing when I go to the beach – effect of man on environment
- I’ll be informative to others at the lake
- Protect the environment and lakes
- Share with friends
3. How could the Agassiz & related activities be improved?
- Explore more
- Inform the public
- More history please
- More activities
- More time to do more hands on activities
- Use a microphone – hard to hear with boat motor (3)
- Shorter didn’t allow for as much depth of info, but I loved it! ride (great to offer more rides though) (2)
- Longer excursion & more info
- Longer ride & more time to explain more things (14)
- More about what has been learned
- More scientific study and research with more scientists
- Love using those 5 senses!
- Keep up good work
- Talk about geology some?
- Mention how the research results are used.
- It’s already perfect (2)
- Given the time very good job
- More kid-level info
- Explain more about plankton
- More activities; less lecture
- More public opportunities to go on lake testing cruise
4. What more would you like to know about the Great Lakes?
- Fish species (2)
- Are all the lakes the same ?
- Local lakes
- History. What ppl have done by them to affect them.
- How long would it take for invasive species to take over the lake ?
- Understanding the differences between lakes and human impact
- Water depths
- Much !
- Depths, underwater views of boat works
- More about the impact of global warming on thier future
- Lots ! How can we help the ecosystems success ?
- Same material, but more in depth
- The exact depth
- What took the place of phosphates in detergents ? Zeolite ?
- I would like to revew data coming from scientific studies
- Zebra mussels
- History
- Pollutants and where they came from
- Whatever !! Yeah ! U.P.
- None presently
- What kind of species are especially sensitive to organic pollution ?
- Gay sands and their affect and movement, covering our white sands ??
- Lots of stuff (2)
- How introduced plants affect the Great Lakes
- Do zebra mussles live forever ?
- Asian carp and sea lampraey
- Nothing right now
- Native and introduces fish, geology
- How the quality has changed (improved)
- To know more for the different species that live in the lake
- Kinds of ecosystems
- More about what really lives at the bottom, ie bloodworms
- How safe is it to drink ?
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