TS #13 - Brad Charlassier

For my 13th tutoring session I met with Dojun over Skype. He had asked me to move our meeting today to the previous day, but unfortunately I had not received the email in time. Thankfully, when I got onto Skype to do our session that he had wanted to reschedule, he was ready to begin anyways. Today we talked about the swimming pools in Rio turning green. He was baffled as to how this could happen. I started off by saying I do not know anything for certain since marine biology (which I later explained to him) was not a strong area of mine. However, I explained to him what I did know and that was that algae grows in any body of water that has the proper nutrients. I expounded further stating that algae is essentially a green plant that grows in water and is harmless. However, if the algae is able to grow, it is possible that some of the nutrients that were able to get through a filter of sorts, which must have broken for these nutrients to come through, may not all be sanitary for humans. On top of explaining the words "algae" and "marine bioology" I also informed him of the words "nutrients" and "sanitary".