The Zephyr Education Foundation

Below are two typical trip logs:


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