What this student is doing is collecting data. So, he wants to check how many life forms there are in the waters nearby. In order to do so, he has to take a sample, and look at it through a microscope so as to determine the number. So, he collected a sample which is his data. He is not drawing conclusions yet, but rather counting these organisms. He is not making a peer review - his peers aren't even mentioned here. He is not forming a hypothesis because he is just counting at this point.
One example is planting a tree
Here are some others
-recycling
-helping our environment in many other ways
Was this a question about stewardship relating to biology or just stewardship in general?
Hydrologists measure the properties of bodies of water. For example, volume and stream flow.