Snapshot Day 10/12/06 Data
(Salt Front RM 52.5)
RIVER MILE 115
Cohotate Preserve, Athens, Greene Co.
Liz LoGuidice, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene County
Tony Loughran, Coxsackie Athens High School Env. Sci. (12th grade)
Location: Cohotate preserve – forested area with education center. Large waterfront
vegetated. North section bulkheaded, south section is beach
Area: education center, has a building
Surrounding Land Use: Forested 90%, Beach 5%; College field station 5%
Sampling Site: beach, altered banks, bulkhead, covered with vegetation, collected
wood/debris in area,
Plants in area: 85% of water has plants
Water
Water Water celery
chestnut1%
plants 99%
Three Square
Dotted
Tidal - Arrow Arum
20%
25%
Smartweed 1%
Land
plants
Jewelweed 3% Pickerelweed
Purple
5%
Loosestrife 1%
Spatterdock
Spotted Joe Pye Wildrice 1%
40%
Weed 2%
Water depth:
River Bottom : muddy/rocky bottom
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Physical
Air Temperature
9:45 AM
16C
60.8F
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather recently
Reading 2
Comments
Water
Temperature
2 knts SE
Water calm
overcast
misty and foggy, 11:35 AM sun came out
rain last night, but seasonable temperatures & partly sunny
lately
11:00 AM 16C
60.8 F
Turbidity
11:15 AM
20 JTU
Chlorophyll
10:00 AM
0.7
Site tube
Chemical
DO
(drop count kit)
pH – ind. solution
Phosphate
Nitrate
Alkalinity
Salinity
Fish Catch
60 ft. seine X 80 ft.
pull
11:20 AM
9.0 mg/L
11:15 AM
7
Number
Caught
Species
1
Banded
Killifish
herring
pumpkinseed
Spottail
Shiners
Tesselated
Darter
White Perch
Striped Bass
Juvenile Blue
Crab
Set stick
1
2
11
10
8
1
24
Currents
9:47 AM
10:15 AM
10:45 AM
11:13 AM
11:30 AM
noon
south
Traffic
9:45 Am
Tides
10:25 AM
10:45 AM
Other Items
Core Description
Cohotate
10:30 AM
Water Depth ~ 3ft
14 cm length
2 eagles
flying
South
Yes
16C
90%
CPUE
Seine
5 seines
Falling
Falling
Falling
Falling
Falling
ebb
Cement Barge
Maria T.
Barge B. No
220 Bouchard
Ship – Cos
Bonny
Many
Cormorants
South bound
Loaded cement
Southbound
Loaded
Southbound
Light
1 Migrating
Monarch
Rare
Common
Caught lots of
small blue
claw crabs!
Abundant
Gravel
Leaves
Wood
Clay
Mud
Sand
no layers
Blackish-grey
sediment
Core Description
Dutchman’s
Landing
12:30
Water Depth ~ 3ft
Yes
Rare
Common
Abundant
Clay
Mud