User talk:Jljohnson1/sandbox

External Review
Hello Jljohnson1 - My name is Jolie, and I'm the Project Coordinator for the WikiProject Limnology & Oceanography team. Your external review for your article on South Bay has been posted below. If you have any questions about your review, or would like to clarify anything, please feel free to get in touch with me by leaving a message on my talk page, and I'll pass it along to your external reviewer. Thanks, and all the best as you wrap up your Wikipedia editing assignment!

EXTERNAL REVIEW - Hello! I’m Krystyn and I’m currently in my second year as a PhD student, meaning that I have many years to go in my education. As a grad student, I still go to school and learn from professors as a student, perform research and do experiments as a scientist, and teach undergrads in their own classes. It’s a constant revolving door of responsibilities. My research interests are within the field of limnology or the study of lakes and river and all things freshwater. (Though, I have a bachelor’s in marine science and lived on the coast my whole life, so I’ll still be able to help with your article). My particular focus is studying eutrophication (a process of excessive nutrient loading into water) and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae), bacteria that are capable of photosynthesis and are responsible for providing oxygen and food for many other organisms in lakes. These guys make these crazy blooms that can take over the lakes surface and create toxins and generally disrupt and destabilize an entire lake. I’m currently studying the interactions between different species of cyanobacteria, spatial differences in their community composition, and the effects of nitrogen on their growth.

Review summary:

First off, what you have written is an improvement on the previous Wikipedia entry. The writing style is professional and neutral, so it follows the guidelines of the assignment and wiki. Your article is also easy to read and follow, with proper links to other sources if I were to have questions about further content. To my knowledge, what you have written is also correct.

A few minor concerns that I have:

When describing the water type of the bay, you have two very repetitive sentences. I would eliminate the first sentence; the second sentence says the same thing that the water is a mixed brackish water and provides more informative details. Though I think it still would be great to say that in the bay there are salt marshes, and then you can go into more detail on how that has an effect on the biological community there. Salt marshes and mangroves have a huge impact on the biology and chemistry of a coastal system, so emphasizing that would be awesome.

There are a few instances where the article lacks citations. I noticed that there three listed references at the end of the article but only one is used within the text. Please make sure that all outside information is properly cited.

The last minor concern is the lack of images. It may be that I can’t see them in the editing view of the article. But please include some more pictures! They don’t have to be the bay itself if that’s a stopping point.

JoGDelta (talk) 22:06, 15 April 2021 (UTC)