Green Lake and its sister Round Lake, are a pair of unique bodies of water located in the aboriginal territory of the Onandoga nation. This writeup will concern itself with Green Lake, but much of this information carries over to its sister.
The final remnants of a plunge pool formed during the last ice age by a glacial waterfall at least twice the size of Niagara Falls; Green Lake is situated in a gorge and fed entirely by rain and groundwater. As a result, it is one of the few meromictic lakes on earth.
So, okay, in general terms, lakes do this:
For the warmer months water organizes into distinct layers, each circulating in their own way. The warmest water, being the least dense, sits at the top. This is where the phytoplankton hang out, producing oxygen and consuming nutrients. The coldest water, being the most dense, sits at the bottom. This is where nutrients tend to accumulate and oxygen gets depleted by animal life. As summer turns to winter the top layers get colder and the water mixes as stratification breaks down, the same happens as winter turns back to summer. This process helps more evenly distribute oxygen and nutrients.
Ok so Green Lake doesn’t do this.
The bottom of the lake is totally devoid of oxygen, so no decomposition; whatever falls down there, stays down there. The water is also very high in mineral content, which leaves layers of calcite deposits on anything that isn’t moving. Moreover there is a layer of bacterially active water around 18-20 meters down that makes the water purple at that specific depth. Thanks to photosynthetic bacteria that deposit some of the minerals in the water, Green Lake is home to one of the few existing freshwater reefs.
I just think its neat.
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In nursing school, we all had our little fav areas we wanted to work in. A friend of mine was aiming for flight nurse, knew what she wanted to do (ER, CVICU, etc). Another wanted to do maternity, and she did! I was going for oncology. We did a bit as like student nurses in schools and I actually really enjoyed shadowing the kindergarten class which should’ve been a sign I guess. Pediatrics oncology is a thing (kids can bounce back hard from it, they tend to get different kinds, either way I am also comfortable with the sad side of it and paliation and Ive had my share of hard passing away), but I actually really liked general peds - mental health, inpatient and outpatient, emerg, medsurg, etc. Im still aiming for gender clinic stuff but I know my old unit wants an NP and I know they’ll pay for your education for a return to service agreement… it wouldnt be impossible to go back and run a clinic part time.