As you would expect, not much secret here, we just dumped a 1 liter glass bottle with a rope attached around the neck in a few different locations of the river, and pulled it out with the rope.

And, in the name of science, we even wore gloves to not contaminate the samples!

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{description=Swam poo bacteria?}

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{title=Dumping the bottle into the river to collect the water sample}
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{title=Measuring the river water sample temperature with a <mercury thermometer>}
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{title=Measuring the river water sample <pH> with a <pH strip>}
{description=The strip is compared with the color of a <mobile app> that gives the pH for a given strip color.}
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{title=Noting sample collection location on the water bottle}
{height=400}

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{title=Dumping the bottle into the river to collect the water sample}
{description=That was fun.}
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Oxford nanopore river bacteria/sample collection

ID: oxford-nanopore-river-bacteria/sample-collection