A Day in the Life of the Hudson River 10/4/13 Data
RIVER MILE 108
Lasher Memorial Park, Germantown, Columbia County
Tom Crowell, Columbia Land Conservancy
Jim McDarby, Hudson High School, 12th graders – 30 students
GPS Latitude 4209.50’ N Longitude 7353.21’W
Location: Lasher Memorial Park, Boat Launch, North Germantown Landing
Area: Grassy area, used for picnics and boating
Surrounding Land Use: Beach – 82%; Urban/residential 10%; Other 8%
Sampling Site: Park with mowed lawn, rip rap in are
Water depth: 3
River Bottom : sandy,
Plants: Goldenrod, common reed, maple, cottonwood
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Physical
Air Temperature
10:10 AM
48F
10.2C
60F
16C
SW
12:29 PM
Wind Speed
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather recently
Water
Temperature
Water calm
Turbidity – sight
tube
Chlorophyll
Reading 2
Comments
Beaufort #3
12:29 PM
SW
Gentle Breeze
Beaufort 2
Mostly Cloudy
Cloudy and rainy all day
Monday heavy rains, Tues. cold no rain, Wed. winds no rain
10:12 AM 18C
2 ft. depth water
Choppy
12:30 PM
9 cm
12:38 PM
1.5
Averages
Chemical
DO – cloud cover
Nitrates
Phosphates
pH –color match
kit
Salinity –
Quantabs
Fish Catch
40 ft. seine net X
3/8 inch mesh
Tides
Photo shows
exposed mudflats
Currents
Traffic
Other Items
Core
9:45 AM
10:30 AM
9:46 AM
10:20 AM
9:42 AM
10:15 AM
9:48 AM
10:05 AM
9:52 AM
10:20 AM
Number
Caught
13C
5 C
5 ppm
5 ppm
2 ppm
1 ppm
7.5
7.5
34 ppm Chloride
34 ppm Chloride
Species
16 ppm
15 ppm
1
7
1
1
1
1
1
1
14 total
9:30 AM
9:54 AM
American Eel
Banded Killifish
Striped Bass
American Shad
Emerald Shiner
White Perch
Shiner
Pumpkinseed
8 Diversity
Unable to read
26.65 cm
4.2 cm
10.5 cm
4 cm
10 cm
13 cm
10 cm
3.25 cm
2.5 cm
12:30 PM
9:35 AM
12:20 PM
9:35
5 cm
ebb
ebb
Two Pleasure
boats
Red Black Barge
Barge
Barge
Detergent Bottle
10:25
11:00 AM
12:30 PM
Floating
Styrofoam
No
0.006
Length of
largest
61 ppm total
salinity
Macro Species
Damselfly larva
Southbound
North
Empty
Northbound
Sourhbound
Glass