Rudee Inlet Data 29 October 2003

High Tide 11:25 AM
Low Tide 5:49 PM

Weather:  cloudy and rainy at first, then becomes sunny, brisk breeze

Temperature:
            Air 16.6
           Water 16.9

Dissolved Oxygen 6.8

Salinity 28 ppt

Secchi ½ Meter

Depth: 20 feet

Turbidity: 115 ntu

Peterson Grab: Sediment sample from the creek 
                                         Mud layers with mud snails

Scrape of pier yielded featherduster worms

Field Equipment List:
Trawl               cooler
Aerator            garbage bags
Container         Thermometer
DO probe        Field notebooks

Data: Trawl One
Time Set: 8:37
Time Retrieved: 8:46:06

Trawl Two
Time Set: 8:54:03
Time Retrieved: 9:05:26

Trawl Three - Owl's Creek
Time Set: 9:17
Time Retrieved: 9:22:30

Plankton Trawl  (depth = near surface) (8:37A.M – 8:41A.M. )
~Used smaller cone-shaped trawl with finer mesh and a collection jar 
                        Copepods
                        Zooplankton

            Birds

Least tern                                                       
Black Skimmers                                            
Brown Pelican
Double –crested Cormorant
Laughing gull
Great black-backed gull  

            Floristics

Spartina alterniflora ecophenotypes: short and tall
Myrica cerifera
Baccharius halimifolia
Maritime forest trees

Don't forget to describe the procedure, include your observations and your interpretations.
An assessment would be useful.

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