Snapshot Day 10/18/11
(Salt Front RM 35.7)
HARLEM RIVER MILE 13
Swindler’s Cove Park on the Harlem River
Omari Washington, Jasmine Santana, Ifeoma Nwoke, Joseph Hayes, New York
Restoration Project and 4 other educators (8 total)
Queila Cordera, Amistad Dual Language School 5th grade PS/MS311 (45 students),
Anne Marie Nowak, Booker T. Washington MS 54 8th grade (40 students) ,
Ms. Fenyo, Ms. Milligan, Ms. Cuevas, Ms. Lopez, Ms. Blumentritt, Ms. Feng, PS 5
Ellen Lurie School– 5th grade and 4th grade (130 students!)
(225 students total!)
GPS Latitude 40 51’36”N – Longitude 7355’12”W
40° 86 N -73° 92 W
Location: Beach at Swindler Cove Park, next to the north end of Harlem River Drive,
Manhattan
Area: There is a pier, beach, floating boathouse with a dock. Area used for boating,
rowing, biking, walking, school groups
Surrounding Land Use: 98% Urban/residential, 2% beach
Sampling Site: Beach area, covered with vegetation, rocky, and altered banks
Plants in area: Spartina and phragmites
Water depth:
River Bottom: sandy, muddy & rocky bottom
Plant Names:
ITEM
Time
Physical
Air Temperature
Sampling occurred between 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
11:00 AM
21C
69.9 F
11 AM
Beaufort
6.12 km/hr
Force #2
South
Partly
Clearing
Light
cloudy
throughout
precipitation
the day
early in day
Light rain
Clearing after
early in day
Overcast,
light rain at
night –
temps like
today
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather recently
Water
Water Temperature
Turbidity
Chlorophyll
Chemical
DO
pH –
AM
Reading 1
8 AM
9 AM
10 AM
11AM
12PM
1PM
8:45 AM
TIME
8 AM
20C
68 F
36 cm
34 cm
32 cm
32 cm
31 cm
29 cm
2.0
DO
6 ppm
9 AM
6 ppm
10 AM
7 ppm
11 AM
7 ppm
12 PM
8 ppm
1 PM
8 ppm
8AM
9AM
7
7
Reading 2
1:00 PM
Temp
17.6C
64F
18.1C
65F
19.2C
67F
19.2C
67F
20.9C
70F
20.9C
70F
11 AM
12 PM
Comments
2.0-3.0
7.5
8
Salinity
Fish Catch – more
than 30 seine attempts
made during day
18 AM catch
25 PM catch
Macros
Tides
Currents
Core Sample
Sediments
1st core
2nd core
10 AM
8AM
9AM
10AM
11AM
12 PM
1 PM
Species
7.5
12 ppt
12 ppt
11 ppt
10 ppt
9 ppt
8 ppt
Number
caught
Killifish
White
Perch
Smallmouth
Bass
Silversides
Bluegill
Blue Crabs
Comb
Jellies
8:56 AM
9:21 AM
10:00 AM
1:00 PM
9:05 AM
9:46 AM
10:09 AM
Length
~10
1
7 cm – no
layers
1PM
8
Size
4 inch
8 inch
2
plenty
2
9
15 ft.
14 ft.
13 ft.
12 ft.
44.19 cm/sec
56.89 cm/sec
72.12 cm/sec
Common
Fine grain
(98%)
Large grain
2%
Clay
common,
mud abundant
Sand, gravel,
pebbles rare
11 cm – top Fine grain
layer 4 cm, 99%; large
bottom 7
grain 1%,
cm
Clay
common,
mud abundant
Sand, gravel,
4 inch
3 inch
(3 AM, 6 PM)
457.2 cm
426.7 cm
396.2 cm
365.8 cm
Present
Description
1 leaf, old
oyster shell
part,
2 rocks
present;
Piece of wood, 1 rock present
old oyster
shell, tiny
worm
discovered
pebbles rare
Traffic
Other
Circle line
sightseeing
cruise
headed
north
Laughing
gulls
spotted in
sampling
site