Ramatoulie Bah
Shayla R. Brooks
Dana Brown
Linwood Creekmore
Torreon N. Creekmore
Vincent Augustus Davis
Peter Eley
Danielle Graves
Paula Harrell
Golar Newby
Elizabeth Rascoe
Carl W. Seward
Eunice Smith
Rodney Stewart
Nelson Veale
Jordan Williams

Dana Brown
email: lild2000@hotmail.com

Mentor: Jerry Leete
Internship: Elizabeth City State University
Title: Water Quality Investigation involving the Dismal Swamp, Boardwalk, and the Pasquotank River

The Dismal Swamp is one of the largest swamps in the United States covering approximately 750 square miles that encompass northeastern North Carolina and southeastern Virginia. Some of its wildlife includes bears, snakes, foxes, turtles and a variety of birds. The Dismal Swamp is also home to many types of plants and trees, such as the bald cypress, black gum, and white cedar trees. The purpose of this Dismal Swamp Internship project was to collect some of this vegetation and document it. Besides collecting leaves and labeling some of the trees, we also collected some of the insects that live in the swamp. All of our collections were strictly done at only the sites of the Dismal Swamp and the Boardwalk, which is ECSU owned and located on a Naval Base in Chesapeake, VA. The project also called for the monitoring of water quality in the swamp and other water sites near the swamp. The two areas my part of the project dealt with were the sites of the College of the Albemarle (COA) in Elizabeth City, NC and a boat ramp in Old Trap, NC. While using special instruments, from these sites temperature, conductivity, salinity, ph, dissolved oxygen, and humidity were documented. Using this information graphs were composed using Microsoft Excel and the information was given to the Department of Geological and Environmental Science at Elizabeth City State University to use for further research in their Boardwalk Hydrology Project.