Schools Pages (Survey Findings Page)
On these pages, you'll find:
Information on "The
River for Life" project, how your class
can help, what happens to the information collected,
and will it help back at school?
About TET educational
Thames river sites (Chiswick, Southwark and
Vauxhall) and their history.
School survey findings,
comparative tables showing species found on school
visits to TET river sites, and links to individual
school pages.
School Survey Findings
Chiswick Site
Southwark Site
Isleworth Site
Vauxhall Site
A note on methodology
Take a look at some of the more common river
species that our visiting schools find in the
table below. This information is updated on a
fortnightly basis. Can you start building a picture
of what is happening in the river this season
using the data in the table?
Click on a school name
in the tables below to go to their survey page.
Key:
F = Flounder
L = Leech
FS = Freshwater Shrimp
CMC = Chinese Mitten Crab
TSD = Total Species Diversity (number of different
species recorded on survey)
Chiswick Site
The following animals have been found in Chiswick
in 2002 - 2003
- Three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus
aculeatus)
- Leeches (various species) (Hirudinea species)
- Freshwater shrimp (Gammarus species)
- Tubifex worms (Tubifex tubifex)
- Chinese mitten crabs (Eriocheir sinensis)
- Estuarine prawns (Palaemon longirostris)
- Snails (various species) (Gastropoda species)
- Flatworms (Polyselis species)
- Flounder (Platichthys flesus)
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Southwark Site
| DATE |
School |
F |
L |
FS |
CMC |
TSD |
|
|
Spanish School |
0 |
12 |
20+ |
3 |
4 |
The following animals have been found in Southwark
by our survey participants
- Eels (Anguilla anguilla)
- Flounder (Platichthys flesus)
- Leeches (various species) (Hirudinea species)
- Freshwater shrimp (Gammarus species)
- Tubifex worms (Tubifex tubifex)
- Chinese mitten crabs (Eriocheir sinensis)
- Snails (various species) (Gastropoda species)
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Isleworth Site
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Vauxhall
Site
The following animals have been
found in Vauxhall by our survey participants
- Flounder (Platichthys flesus)
- Leeches (various species) (Hirudinea species)
- Freshwater shrimp (Gammarus species)
- Tubifex worms (Tubifex tubifex)
- Snails (various species) (Gastropoda species)
- River limpet(Ancylus fluviatilis)
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Methodology
River For Life school surveys* usually involve
classes of approximately 25 pupils and 5 adults.
They spend roughly 30 minutes looking for fish
and invertebrates during low tide with the aid
of small dip nets (aquarium nets), kick sample
nets and by turning over stones.
*Please note: Most species counts
above 10 are estimates. Counts are entered as
"exact" or "estimates" on
our survey sheets and in our database. Leeches,
snails and mayfly nymphs are not identified to
species. We have classified all the species that
fall under each of these taxon as one species
for the purpose of this survey. Therefore, a survey
group that finds 3 different leech species during
one visit would record all individuals under the
heading "Leech" and this would count
as one species for our species diversity count.
We have chosen this method due to the novice level
of many school groups to identify organisms to
the species level.
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