Snapshot Day 10/12/06 Data
(Salt Front RM 52.5)
RIVER MILE 124.5
Nutten Hook
Jenny Brinker, Columbia Land Conservancy
Jim McDarby, Hudson High School, 11th and 12th graders
GPS Latitude 42 N Longitude 73 W
Location: Nutten Hook
Area: Beach, forested bluff, large marsh behind bluff, DEC public access, used for
picnics, water access
Surrounding Land Use: Beach - shoreline is sandy and rocky, riprap, banks altered in
some areas with bulkhead
Sampling Site:
Plants in area:
Water Chestnut,
Poison Ivy
Tidal -Land Common
reed 10%
seeds abundant
5%
plants
but not growing
plants
Willows
Sumac 5%
Cottonwood
10%
trees 5%
Water depth:
River Bottom : Rocky with some sand
ITEM
Time
Reading 1
Reading 2
Comments
Physical
Air Temperature
10:04 AM
59F
14C
60F
16C
64F
16C
Wind from
South
10:29 AM
59F
14C
60F
16C
63F
14C
10:46 AM
11:05 AM
10:57 AM
11:12 AM
Wind Speed
7-10 knots
Cloud Cover
Weather today
Weather recently
overcast
Mostly cloudy, a little precipitation and mist
M & T sunny and warm, W partly cloudy and rain through
night
11:05 AM 17C
Water
Temperature
Turbidity
Chlorophyll
Chemical
DO
Water calm
11:05 Am
40 JTU
60 JTU
60 JTU
10:25 AM
0.7
11:13 AM
0.5
11:05 Am
4.0 mg/L
17C
40%
(drop count kit)
pH – indicator sol.
Litmus test strips
pH pen
Phosphate
Nitrate
Alkalinity
Salinity
(hydrometer)
Fish Catch
40 ft. seine net
Tides
Currents
Traffic
10:45 AM
10:45 AM
10:45 AM
7.5
6.8
8.1
AVERAGE OF 3 tests
7.46
2 ppt
1 ppt
4 ppt
Number
Caught
3 (1.5-5
inch)
1 (2 inch)
1
2
Species
CPUE
9:58 AM
10:28 AM
10:45 AM
10:57 AM
11:03 AM
11:12 AM
10:04 AM
10:47 Am
11:04 AM
9:50 AM
67 cm
57 cm
52 cm
48 cm
46 cm
41 cm
ebb
ebb
ebb
Cos Bonniered & black Singapore
Belnor, blue,
whit red - Oslo
Green & white
10:10 AM
10:22 AM
Other
Items
Core
Zebra
mussels
Either should
be ppm or
inaccurate due
to instrument
in area used
Seine
10 seines
White Perch
Sriped Bass
Herring
Blue Crab
2 bald
1 osprey
eagle
unsuccessful
falling
falling
falling
falling
falling
Southbound
Empty
Northbound
½ full
Southbound
Large
speedboat
Rolypoly
caterpillars
3 canadian
geese