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Boat field tripon the Columbia Point
May 6, 2008
Boston Harbor sampling stations:1. Neponset River – mouth
2. Thompson Island3. Deer Island Anchorage
Special thanks to our oceanography research team!
Russell Bowell, Boat captain, and his crewProf. Bernie GardnerFrancesco Peri, Marine Engineering and more Prof. Meng Zhou
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http://www.nps.gov/boha/pphtml/subnaturalfeatures14.html
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Niskin bottle – collecting water from specific depths for e.g. concentrations of chlorophyll-a, nitrogen, phosphorous, and fecal coliform bacteria;
Secchi disk – for measuring transparency/clarity of the water
Plankton net
Copepods
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Organism-sediment-contaminant interactions:http://alpha.es.umb.edu/faculty/edg/files/bhms/bhms.pdf
Review of zooplankton communities in Mass Bayhttp://www.mwra.state.ma.us/harbor/enquad/pdf/2003-06.pdf
Acartia spp.
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CTD Instrument recorder:
Conductivity
Temperature
Depth
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Photosynthetically Active Radiation – light attenuation coefficient Kd;
Calculating euphotic depth in the oceans;