Snapshot Day 10/14/10 Data
(Salt Front RM 36)
RIVER MILE 87
Eli Schloss & Esopus Meadows Environmental Center, Ulster Park, Ulster County
Donna Nageli, George Washington Elementary School – 4th & 5th grade – 49 students
Location: Esopus Meadows Preserve Town of Esopus. Ulster County
Area: A path along the beach with rising forested hills and yard with house and driveway
Surrounding Land Use: Forested 80%, Beach 20%
Sampling Site: Rocky shallow, sloping beach area covered with vegetation
Water depth: 2 ft.
River Bottom –rocky muddy weedy
Plants in area: Plants in less than half sample area - 100% are water chestnut
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Physical
Air Temperature
10:00 AM
54F
12C
56F
15C
61F
16C
1-3 kts
11:00 AM
12:00 PM
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather recently
Water
Temperature
Water calm
Turbidity Short Turbidity
tube
Long site Tube
Chlorophyll
Chemical
Reading 2
Comments
1 Beaufort
East wind
Partly cloudy
Water Calm
Increasing clouds all day. Heavy fog then clear skies. By 1100
cirrostratus clouds had moved in, giving way to cirrocumulus
by 12:30 PM By 1:30 complete cloud cover.
Fair weather
10:00 AM 14C
14C
14C
57 F
57 F
57 F
11:00 PM 14C
14C
14C
57 F
57 F
57 F
12:00 PM 15C
15C
15C
60F
60 F
60F
12:30 PM 15C
15C
15C
59 F
59 F
59 F
yes
10:00 AM 50 JTU
10:30 AM
9:45 AM
23 cm
.7
DO
(drop count kit)
pH
Indicator sol.
Salinity
Fish Catch
25 ft.X 4 ft. X ¼
inch mesh 30 ft pull
4 seines run
Tides
Currents
Traffic
10:00 AM
11.0 mg/L
11:30 AM
7.5
7.5
6.5
Number
Caught
Species – total
count 110
1
Eel
12
3
1
Spottail Shiner
Killifish
Yellow Perch
13
6
3
1
1
21
Spottail Shiner
Killifish
Striped Bass
Sticklebuck
Darter
Spottail Shiner
1
23
2
1
Killifish
Herring
Bluegill
Pumpkin Seed
17
14
Many~ 40
10:00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
11:30 AM
12:30 PM
Time
10:00 AM
11:00 AM
12:00 PM
1:00 PM
10:15 AM
Herring
Spottail Shiner
scuds
Falling
Falling
Falling
Falling
Falling
North/South
N (S)
S (S)
S (S)
S (S)
Tug/Barge
14C
110%
7.3 average
CPUE
Seine
#1 – 3 Species
16 count
#2 – 6 Species
25 count
#3 – 4 Species
47 count
#4 – 3 Species
32 count
Ebb/Flood
Ebb
E
E
E
NB
Light/oil