boat field trip on the columbia point may 6, 2008

Boat field tripon the Columbia Point

May 6, 2008

Boston Harbor sampling stations:1. Neponset River – mouth

2. Thompson Island3. Deer Island Anchorage

Special thanks to our oceanography research team!

Russell Bowell, Boat captain, and his crewProf. Bernie GardnerFrancesco Peri, Marine Engineering and more Prof. Meng Zhou

http://www.nps.gov/boha/pphtml/subnaturalfeatures14.html

Niskin bottle – collecting water from specific depths for e.g. concentrations of chlorophyll-a, nitrogen, phosphorous, and fecal coliform bacteria;

Secchi disk – for measuring transparency/clarity of the water

Plankton net

Copepods

Organism-sediment-contaminant interactions:http://alpha.es.umb.edu/faculty/edg/files/bhms/bhms.pdf

Review of zooplankton communities in Mass Bayhttp://www.mwra.state.ma.us/harbor/enquad/pdf/2003-06.pdf

Acartia spp.

CTD Instrument recorder:

Conductivity

Temperature

Depth

Photosynthetically Active Radiation – light attenuation coefficient Kd;

Calculating euphotic depth in the oceans;