Left: Tye Pettay, USC Beaufort
assistant professor of Biological
Oceanography, pours salt water
into a turbidity tube held by Chris
Kehrer, Naturalist and Operations
Coordinator at the Port Royal Sound
Foundation (PRSF). The new Adopt-
A-Stream citizen science program
provides simple scientific instruments,
including these tubes, to Lowcountry
residents who collect water quality
SEE SCIENTISTS PAGE A5 data. Photo courtesy of USC Beaufort.