Snapshot Day 10/2/07 Data
(Salt Front RM 78.2 )
RIVER MILE 115
Cohotate Preserve, Athens, Greene Co.
Liz LoGuidice, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene County
Tony Loughran, Coxsackie Athens High School Env. Sci. & AP Bio. -10th-12th grade
– 26 students
Kathy Durkin, Catskill Elementary School, 3rd grade, 20 participants
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%; Urban/residential 5%
Sampling Site: muddy and rocky shoreline, beach covered with vegetation, some banks
have been altered, has bulkhead
Plants in area: 85% of water has plants
Water celery
Water chestnut Yellow Flag
Plants
identified
Arrow Arum
Three Square
Poison Ivy
Rush
Spatterdock
Pickerelweed
Wildrice
Spotted Joe Pye
Weed
Water depth: 3-4 feet deep,
River Bottom : muddy & weedy bottom
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Reading 2
Comments
Physical
Air Temperature
9:57 AM
17.6C
63.8F
5 mph
15 mph
10:45 AM
21C
68F
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather recently
Water
Temperature
Water
10:45 AM
11:00 AM
overcast
Mostly coudy but dry
No rain for last 3 days
10:00
20.6C
AM
69F
10:30
20.5C
AM
68.9F
11:45
20.7C
AM
Slightly
shoppy
with wind
Gusts to 10 mph
Wind from South
Turbidity
11:30
AM
0 JTU
Chlorophyll
9:45 AM
0.3
10:30
AM
11:30
AM
10:30
AM
11:33
AM
12:00
noon
12.0 ppm
20.0C
120%
9 ppm
20.7C
98%
10:30
AM
10:45
AM
Noon
Seine 1
200 ppm
200 ppm
200 ppm
1
4
1
60
Chemical
DO
(drop count kit)
(shady & windy
area)
pH – color match
kit
Phosphate
Nitrate
Alkalinity
Salinity
Fish Catch
60 ft. seine X 30
ft.
Banded Killifish
Herring y-o-y
possibly
alewives
Bluegill Sunfish
Spottail Shiners
Tesselated Darter
White Perch
TOTALS
Tides
Currents
2
9
16
8:00 AM
10:25
AM
Core Description 6.6 cm
length
None
Traffic
Noted
Site tube
7.5
8.0
8
7.5
Seine
2
1
1
Seine
3
Seine
4
Seine
5
17
1
15
2
20
10
1
4
Seine
6
30
2
63
38
Through
23
Noon
ebb
24
No layers, all
same
Fine grain
sediment
4
146
3
24
2
13
1
11
TOTALS
30
Falling
Some wood &
plant material