Graphs on Albany Pine Bush Water and Soil Samples

SOIL

After plugging in all of the data points collected from the Albany Pine Bush, you can see a comparison of element concentrations between soil samples. The graphs show the amount of each element found within the samples. Note that each sample was ran twice on default (example: sample 1 and 1.2) and once on extended (example: sample 1E). The first graph mainly shows the highest element concentrations. In the second graph I deleted the two highest element concentrations (Ba and Cl) so that smaller peaks could be observed.

To get an even closer view of the remaining elements I again deleted the next two largest elements (Sb and Pb).

Again I deleted the next highest element (Cr). Also note because Hg and Cd only had ND as its results, no numerical stat apeared. ND stands for "no data", but what that actually means is the concentrations were so low they could not be detected.

From these graphs we can see just how much higher the concentrations of Ba and Cl were as compared to any of the other elements. We as well can visually see which elements had lower concentrations (As, Br, Cd). Although Ba and Cl were the highest, they had large variation as compared to Cr and Sb that were consistent throughout the samples. Below is the data I collected on the averages of all the elements. One thing that should be noted is that the averages only include data from numerical values and ignored ND. Because ND generally is a very low amount, the averages are not very reliable.

WATER

For the water samples I used the same idea when making graphs. The first graph includes Cl that was very high only in one sample. In the second graph I removed Cl so that other elements can be looked at.

Below is also the averages computed for each element. Again the averages only included data with numerical values and ignored ND.