Correlation between Silica and Specific Conductance

We expected the trends of the conductivity graph and silica graph to resemble one another; in other words, for an increase in silica to be reflected by an increase in conductivity, and vice versa. Although the trends in conductivity were as we predicted, silica was more greatly affected by terrestrial uptake than by precipitation events. It may be that without the influence of biota, summer silica levels would reach even higher levels than during the winter. The one location where silica and conductivity seem the most related is at Wright Lane where wetlands do not have much of an effect and groundwater is the primary source.