Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Doing a transect at Cornet Bay

On June 27th we headed out to Cornet Bay for a chance to see our subject eelgrass meadow in the video monitor. Jan, Ken and Neal had successfully recorded eelgrass footage on a trial run in Holmes Harbor, but this was our first time at Cornet Bay, which is the site of a planned restoration project. Our funding mandated that we provide video footage of Cornet Bay before the end of June. We got things together just in time, thanks to heroic efforts by Jan who spearheaded the equipment purchase and Neal and Gregg who took on the huge task of making sure all the technical aspects of the project work together.

Adjusting the camera to look straight

down at top of eelgrass canopy
A view of placid Cornet Bay
















Jan and Ken deploying the tow fish

Cornet Bay Transects plotted on paper
















Neal viewing our course on the laptop

Cornet Bay as seen on the laptop

















More perks of the Beach Watchers job

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