Crayfish Studies at Sweat Mountain Park
Our project team is doing an independent study on crayfish in a stream that is in the Rubes Creek water basin outside of Atlanta, Georgia, USA. We are trying to find out how the creek bottom can change the amount and in some cases size of the crayfish found. We are doing well with our project but have realized that we have many variables that our affecting our project. Our main variable is changing the creek bottom but changing the creek bottom also results in changing many other variables. These variables included water depth and temperature. These two variables can result in the size and the amount of crayfish found. Right now our team is using a trap to find crayfish and will probably stick with that since that is giving us the best results.