Falmouth High School's Marine Ecology Class
April 9, 2010
Teacher: Cheryl Milliken
Logkeeper: Joshua Tipton
Vessel: Patriot Too
Departure: 0827 from Woods Hole
Weather: 100% cloud cover, SW wind 15-20 kts, Visibility: 0.5 mi.
First Deployment: Site 3 Benthic Dredge and Onset
Computer Data Logger
Water Depth: 5-7 meters
Time of Deployment: 0845-0849
Results: Scallops and sea stars
Second Deployment: Site 3, as above
Time 0850-0856
Results: Purple urchins, sand dollar, sea stars, spider crab, whelks
Third Deployment: Site 3, Surface Plankton Tow with
Onset Computer Data Logger
Time: 0908-0915
Water Sampling with Niskin Bottle
Time: 0921
Depths: 0.5 and 5 m.
Surface Temp: 9.1 deg. C
5 meter Temp 9.8 deg C
Fourth Deployment: NOAA Drifter.
Deployed: 0925 at 41 deg 31.041' N
70 deg 41.012' W
Recovered: 0941 at 41 deg 31.142' N
70 deg 41.833' W
Average speed: 119.8 cm/sec to 279 deg. (about 2.3 knots)
Secchi Disk: Site 2, at 0957 hrs.
Result: 4.9 meters
Click here for Falmouth High School Temperature/Depth data
Bristol Community College, Marine Technology and Marine Biology
April 23, 2010
Vessel: Patriot Too
Instructor: Bob Rak
Weather Sunny, North wind, 10 knots
Trip 1 Depart 0900 from Woods Hole
1st Deployment 0922-0931, Site 1, Benthic Dredge
Purple urchins (arbacia), sea stars (asterias), hermit crabs
(pagurus), mud crab, female spider crabs (Libinia)
2nd Deployment 0942-0947 Site 1, Plankton Tow
3rd Deployment 0953-1003 Site 1,Otter Trawl male spider crab,
codium, shrimp
4th Deployment 1020 Secchi Disk, Site 2, 6.0 meters
Return 1026
Trip 2 Depart 1035
1st Deployment 1058-1112, Site 1, Otter trawl
2nd Deployment 1115-1125, Site 1, Otter Trawl
3rd Deployment 1130-1136 Site 1, Benthic Dredge
Spider crabs, hermit crabs, sea urchins, seastars, quahog
4th Deployment 1142-1150 Plankton Tow
Return 1200
