We have created a data table that contains the watersheds in central Ohio. On this spreadsheet we have the watersheds name along with their drainage, slope, and active river area. In each watershed we look at the percent of the watershed that is developed land, agriculture land, and woody forestry in the years of 1989, 2001, and 2019. This illustrates the changes that have occurred in each watershed.

As we visit each stream, we document our woody debris score, QHEI index score, PH score, conductivity, flow of the stream, canopy coverage, and temperature of the stream.

QGIS is a desktop satellite image service that we use for looking at the sinuosity of a stream. Sinuosity is the ratio of stream length to valley length. through this program we can determine if the stream has become more curvy or straight.