Field Activity Details for field activity 2008-041-FA

Other ID: P-41-08-MA

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

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Principal Investigator(s): Michael Bothner

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Michael Casso

Data Type(s): Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Sampling: Chemistry

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect juvenile herring, juvenile white perch and mummichogs from Oyster Pond for the mercury study. Herring, juvenile white perch and mummichogs will be sampled between the culvert at Surf Drive and the weir. Some specimens of herring were collected from Trunk River, just upstream of the bike path bridge.

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Start Port/Location: Oyster Pond Weir, Falmouth, MA

End Port/Location: Oyster Pond Weir, Falmouth, MA

Start Date: 2008-09-16

End Date: 2008-10-16

Equipment Used: Water sampler, Dip Nets

Information to be Derived: Samples and chemical analysis;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Successful fish collections were made during the evenings of September 16 (3 white perch, 50 mummichogs); Sept. 19 (4 white perch); Sept. 25 (14 juvenile herring, 8 juvenile white perch, 12 mummichogs); Sept. 28 (1 post spawn adult herring, 1 juvenile herring from the Trunk River just above bike path bridge); Sept. 29 (3 juvenile herring south of weir); October 16, 2008 (16 juvenile herring, 3 juvenile white perch from just south of weir, collected in the afternoon).

Staff: Michael Bothner, Thomas Brooks, Michael Casso

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Notes:
Project = Coastal Geological Processes and Long-Term, Coastal Geological Processes and Long-Term

Location:

Oyster Pond, Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

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