Like
they don't have a care?
Have they taken over your lake?
Like clowns at a fair?
Are they beating all the other plankton, as they fix all the limiting N?
Are there
Anabaena everywhere?
Are there
Navicula everywhere?
Where you swim they're in your hair?
But your lake is still clear
So you really don't care?
Are they able to survive, with silica on their side?
Are there
Navicula everywhere?
Are there
Scenedesmus everywhere?
Does it make people stare?
Zooplankton love them so
Would you eat them for a dare?
Are they all in a group, to avoid being
Daphnia soup?
Are there
Scenedesmus everywhere?
Onondaga
By Rachel Habig, 2005
To the tune of "O Christmas
tree"
On-on-daga, On-on-daga
Why are you so poll-u-ted?
Onondaga, Onondaga
Why are you so polluted?
We filled you up with mercury,
Oh how guilty can we be?
Onondaga, Onondaga, why are you so polluted?
Onondaga, Onondaga
When will you be clean again?
Onondaga, Onondaga
When will you be clean again?
We want to swim, and fish and drink,
But mostly we want to stop the stink.
Onondaga, Onondaga
When will you be clean again?
Und jetzt auf Deutsch:
Onondaga, Onondaga, warum bist du so verschmutzt?
Onondaga, Onondaga, warum bist du so verschmutzt?
Wir haben dir mit Quicksilber aufgefuellt,
Wir fullen uns selber schuld
Onondaga, Onondaga, warum bist du so verschmutzt?
Onondaga, Onondaga, wann wirds du weider sauber sein?
Onondaga, Onondaga, wann wirds du weider sauber sein?
Schwimmen, angeln, trinken wollen wir,
Und das derr Stink kommt nich mehr vons Meer.
Onondaga, Onondaga, wann wirds du weider sauber sein?
Turn, turn, turn
(Limnology Style)
By Joshua Conway, 2005
To every seiche, turn,
turn, turn
There is a season, turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under water
A time to be born, a time to die
A time to migrate, a time to sleep
A time to eat, a time to meet
A time to defend, a time to leap
To every seiche, turn, turn, turn
There is a season, turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under water
A time to grow, a time to break down
A time to mix, a time to bloom
A time to cast away sediment
A time to gather allochthans together
To every seiche, turn, turn, turn
There is a season, turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under water
A time of input, a time of discharge
A time of turbulence, a time of peace
A time you may be eutrophic
A time you may be oligotrophic
To every seiche, turn, turn, turn
There is a season, turn, turn, turn
And a time to every purpose under water
A time to gain, a time to lose
A time to be warm, a time to be cool
A time to flood, a time to dry
A time to remediate, I swear it's not to late
Plankton
Song
By Heather Bradley 2005
To the tune of "It's a small
world after all"
Chorus:
There's a small world after all
blooms in spring time, die off's in fall
Floating in the lake we have a ball
We're in a small, small world
Verse From phyto to
rotifers to zooplankton
We're diatoms, bluegreens, green and golden
There's
Ceratium,
copepods and
Daphnia
Chaoborus,
Euglena and porifera
Chorus We're a small world
after all
Sun is energy for us all
Chlorophyll a is in us all
We're a small, small, world
Verse Though
small we know how to avoid predators
By changing size or shape or reverse migration
Our distribution is sometimes
cosmopolitan
We control populations through
competition
Chorus It's a small
world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small, small world!
