One of my student is going to start her work on eutrophication modelling and sag curve modelling for a local pond extensively used for drinking purpose. Could anyone help me to find out the software's and manuals to proceed the work in a good way.
Dear Dr. Kani,
you can collect water samples from local pond and measuring the chlorophyll a content and determining the trophic level of that pond during different seasons. Also, assessing some physicochemical parameters to evaluate the water quality status. You may identify phytoplankton if there toxic species or detect the level of Microcystis in water samples.
comparing your data with pervious study on the same pond, if there. Detecting human activities near to the pond that may help you to interpret your final data.
Use canonical corresponds analysis (CCA) to get the correlation between all different detected data.
Good luck,
Sara Sayed