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- Melissa Mercay-Collins, right in maroon, and Holly Cooney, center in black, help sophomores and juniors from Edward Little High School test the dissolved oxygen levels of the Androscoggin River at the Durham boat launch Friday morning. The biology students were taking part in EL’s Androscoggin River Days, testing the water and observing its life-forms. “We wanted to choose an ecosystem that directly affected them,” teacher Jenny Cyr said. “The river has gone through a lot of changes in the past two decades, and the students can ask their grandparents and parents about their past observations as well.”
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- Edward Little High School biology students from Auburn scour a scoop of plant matter and river water for macroinvertebrates during a class excursion to the Durham boat launch Friday.
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- Edward Little High School junior Steven Wilson and sophomores Ashleigh Beaudoin, center, and Dominic Collins inspect macroinvertebrates collected from the Androscoggin River at the Durham boat lunch Friday morning. “Some of the things we are finding, like the mayfly larvae, are a clean water indicator,” said Lynne Richard, left, of the Lake Auburn Watershed Protection Commission. The students were able to identify more than 10 macroinvertebrates in one scoop of river water at the Durham boat launch. Other Edward Little biology classes visited Androscoggin River sites in Lewiston and Turner.
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- Edward Little High School students from Auburn identified a type of snail found in the Androscoggin River at the Durham boat launch during a biology class Friday.
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