Snapshot Day 10/14/11 Data
(Salt Front RM 35.7)
RIVER MILE 55
Little Stony Point
Lisa Mechaley of the Hudson Highlands Land Trust
Mark Patinella, & 5 additional teachers/chaperones, Haldane High School
28 students - 12th grade AP Bio
Location: Little Stony Point beach, Cold Spring, Putnam County
Area: On the beach at Little Stony Point, facing Beacon across from Storm King
Surrounding Land Use: 100% forested & beach
Sampling Site: beach area, bulkhead
Plants in area: no vegetation in water
Water depth: 45 cm
River Bottom –sandy, rocky, muddy
SAMPLING TIMES 9AM to 1PM
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Reading 2 Comments
Physical
Air
Temperature
9:44 AM
10:52 AM
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Weather
today
Weather
recently
Water
Water
Temperature
12C
52F
16C
60F
1-3 kts
1 Beaufort
Partly cloudy
Overcast. No rain, sunnier as day went on
SW
Some rain one night, during the day sunny, temp. mid 60s
Water calm
10:14
14C
AM
58F
11:00 AM
16C
61F
Water
Turbidity –
short site
tube
Chlorophyll
Chemical
DO
(ampules)
pH
Phosphate
Nitrate
Salinity quantabs
Test strips
Fish Catch
9-9:30 AM
Seine net 100
feet , X 4 ft.
X 50 yrd pull
1 pull
Tides
Currents
Core
Description
9:52 AM
11:30 AM
Choppy
9:37 AM
0.7
10:07
7.8 mg/L
AM
10:14AM 6.75
15C
1.0
.8
.8
Number
Caught
35 ppm
chloride
200
2
1
2
2
1
some
1
1
2
9:15 AM
9:54 AM
11:00
AM
Time
9:33 AM
9:45 AM
10:20AM
10:45AM
10:52AM
11:22AM
Length
BargeHelicopter
6.75 average
Species
CPUE
Herring
Banded Killifish
White Perch
Hog Choker
Bullhead Catfish
Pumpkinseed
Tessellated darters
White catfish
Smallmouth bass
Spottail shiners
Falling
Falling
Falling
1.5 inch
Cm/60
secs
1520
1130
520
430
900
1100
Common
Cm/sec
Knots
25.3
18.8
8.6
7.1
15
18.3
0.49
0.37
0.16
0.14
0.29
.3
Abundant
Ivy
80% saturated
2 inch
4-5 inch
33 cm
39 cm
46 cm
Northbound
Southbound
63.23 ppm
total salinity
conversion
Seine
.153 cm/min
.106 cm/min
North/South
Ebb/Flood/Still
N Flood
NE Still
NE still
Flood
Flood
Flood
Notes