Collected during the MSc Aquatic Ecosystem Management's October 2006 field trip to the Marine Station

The class remit was to perform a microbiological examination of the tourist beaches, then come up with (theoretical) design recommendations for sewage treatment, and for drinking water purification based on an old reservoir. We sampled the algae as a guide to the quality of the fresh water supply. Camphill reservoir, in the hills near Largs, is the source of the current water supply for Cumbrae piped under the channel).

(For previous years' results: click on the year 2002  2003 2004  2005)

Reservoirs		IMAGE	Camphill	Millport upper	Millport Lower
	pH		6.2	7.6	7.6
	Conductivity µS		60	229	233
Species	Group
Anabaena sp.	Cyanobacteria			++	+
Aphanizomenon sp.	Cyanobacteria
Aphanocapsa sp.	Cyanobacteria				+
Asterionella formosa	diatom		+	++	+ +
Asterococcus	Chlorophyte				+
Asterocystis (Chroodactylon)	Chlorophyte			+
Audouinella	Rhodophyte		+
Aulacoseira sp.	Diatom		+	+
Botryococcus sp.	Chlorophyte			+	+
Ceratium hirundinella	Dinoflagellate			+	+
Cladophora sp.	Chlorophyte			+	+ +
Closterium acerosum	Chlorophyte		+
Closterium ?cornu	Chlorophyte		+
Closterium incurvum	Chlorophyte		+
Closterium kuetzingii	Chlorophyte		++
Cocconeis placentula	Diatom			+	+
Coelastrum sphaericum	Chlorophyte			+	+
Coelosphaerium	Cyanobacteria		+++	+	+
Coenochloris fottii	Chlorophyte			+	+
?Coenococcus polycoccus	Chlorophyte				+
Cosmarium ?blyttii	Chlorophyte		+
Cosmarium turpinii	Chlorophyte			+
Cymatopleura elliptica	Diatom			+
Cymatopleura solea	Diatom			+
Cymbella aspera	Diatom		++	+	+
Desmidium swartzii	Chlorophyte		+
Dictyosphaerium	Chlorophyte				+
Epithemia sp.	Diatom				+
Eucapsis ?alpina	Cyano			+	+
Eudorina	Chlorophyte			+
Fragilaria capucina	Diatom			++	+
Geminella 11µm.	Chlorophyte			+
Gomphonema truncatum	Diatom			+	+
Gonatozygon ?monotaenium	Chlorophyte			+	+
Gyrosigma sp.	Diatom			+
Kirchneriella	Chlorophyte			+	+
Mallomonas caudata	Chrysophyte			+	+
?Merismopedia	Cyanobacteria
Micrasterias americana	Chlorophyte		+
Microcystis sp.	Cyanobacteria			+++	++
Microspora 17µm.	Chlorophyte		+
Mougeotia 8µm.	Chlorophyte			+	+
Mougeotia 11µm.	Chlorophyte				+
Mougeotia 14µm.	Chlorophyte		+	+
Mougeotia 16µm.	Chlorophyte			+
Mougeotia 22µm.	Chlorophyte				+
Mougeotia 30µm.	Chlorophyte			+	+
Navicula radiosa	Diatom				+
Oedogonium 6µm.	Chlorophyte		+
Oedogonium 15µm.	Chlorophyte			++	+
Oedogonium 30µm.	Chlorophyte			+++	+
Oedogonium 56µm.	Chlorophyte		+
Oscillatoria 3µm.	Cyanobacteria				+
Oscillatoria 8µm.	Cyanobacteria			+	+
Pediastrum boryanum	Chlorophyte			+
Pediastrum boryanum v. cornutum	Chlorophyte				+
Pediastrum duplex ?v. rugulosum	Chlorophyte			+ +
Phormidium 8µm.	Cyanobacteria			++
Scenedesmus sp.	Chlorophyte			+
?Sphaerocystis	Chlorophyte	->Increasing amounts of Lugol's Iodine->	+	+
Spirogyra 20µm.	Chlorophyte	?  single cells?	?		+
Spondylosium planum	Chlorophyte		+
Staurastrum ?asperum	Chlorophyte		+
Staurastrum ?avicula	Chlorophyte		+
Staurastrum armigerum fo. furcigerum	Chlorophyte		+
Staurastrum ?brebissonii	Chlorophyte		+
Staurastrum ?chaetoceras	Chlorophyte			+
Staurastrum ?cyrtocerum	Chlorophyte		+
Staurastrum ?gracile	Chlorophyte		+
Staurastrum ?johnsonii	Chlorophyte				+
Staurastrum ?muticum	Chlorophyte		+
Staurastrum ?planctonicum	Chlorophyte	??		+	+
Staurodesmus dejectus	Chlorophyte		+
Staurodesmus ?megacanthus	Chlorophyte		+
Stylosphaeridium		growing on Woronichinia			+
Synedra acus	Diatom		+		+
Synedra ulna	Diatom		+
Tabellaria flocculosa	Diatom		++
Tabellaria fenestrata v. asterionelloides	Diatom		+
Tribonema 8µm.	Xanthophyte		+
Ulothrix 8µm.	Chlorophyte	?	+
Woronichinia	Cyanobacteria	Typical morphology Showing mucilage (surrounded by Microcystis)   presence of mucilaginous tubes may be revealed when cells are sometimes squeezed out from the tubes by pressure under a coverslip two colony morphologies, but both appear to be Woronichinia, mucilage more evident on the right another showing mucilage (last 2 images with Lugol's Iodine)	+
Xanthidium antilopaeum	Chlorophyte		+
Zygnema 20µm.	Chlorophyte				+
Zygnema 35µm.	Chlorophyte				+

John Kinross