1. Eastern Shore
By: Kelly Threatt

2. Wachapreague, VA

3. General Description Location: Wachapreague, Virginia (Eastern Shore)
Date: September 14, 2007
2 land sites (Barrier Islands): Paramore Island and Cedar Island
4 water sites: Inlet, Clubhouse Point, Hummocks Channel, and Nikawampus Creek

5. Goals Collecting Describing/ Collecting Collecting/ Analyzing
Water depth
Dissolved oxygen
Temperature
Salinity pH
Nutrient
Describing/ Collecting
Planktonic life
Nektonic life
Benthic life
Collecting/ Analyzing
Sea floor sediment grain size
Sea floor sediment composition
*Introduce topics that will be covered in more detail later in the semester *

6. Tools Trawl-used to collect nektonic life
Dredge-used to collect benthic life
Secchi Disk-used to find the depth of the photic zone

7. More Tools
Plankton Net-used to collect plankton from the surface water
YSI-used to measure dissolved oxygen, salinity, depth, and temperature
Ponar Grab-used to collect sediment off of the sea floor
Niskin Bottle-used to collect water samples below the surface water

9. Field Results
Inlet
Clubhouse Point
Hummocks Channel
Nikawampus Creek

10. Inlet Between two barrier island: Cedar Island and Paramore Island
GPS Location: N 37º ” W 75º 37.81”
Total Water Depth: 80ft
Photic zone depth: 1m 3.5cm

11. Inlet Data 1-Temperature (˚C) 2-Salinity (ppt) Blue-0.0m
Depth
Temperature
Salinity DO pH
0.0m (surface)
25.2ºC
31.1 ppt
5.8 mg/l
8.5 2m
31.6 ppt
5.71 mg/l
8.2
1-Temperature (˚C)
2-Salinity (ppt)
3-Dissolved Oxygen (mg/L)
4-pH
Blue-0.0m
Red-2m

12. Life in the Inlet Plankton (drifters) Neckton (swimmers)
Benthos (bottom-dwellers)
Seaweed
Snails
Dead Fish
Jelly Fish (no tentacles)
Conch Shell (Boosicomb)
Clams
Oyster shells
Gobee (naked)
Hermit Crab (Flat Clawed)
Knobwelk
Gardiella (red)
Olva (green)

13. Clubhouse Point GPS Location: N 37º 35.35” W 75º 37.80”
Total Water Depth: 12ft
Photic zone depth: 1m
Sea Floor Sediments
Color: gray, black, brown
Texture: shelly bottom
Compaction: hard shells

14. Clubhouse Point Data Blue-0.0m Red-2m Yellow-3m 1-Temperature (˚C)
Depth
Temperature
Salinity DO pH
0.0m (surface)
25.8ºC
32.6 ppt
6.69 mg/l
8.4 2m
25.2ºC
32.5 ppt
5.75 mg/l
8.3 3m
25.9ºC
5.77 mg/l
Blue-0.0m
Red-2m
Yellow-3m
1-Temperature (˚C)
2-Salinity (ppt)
3-Dissolved Oxygen (mg/L)
4-pH

15. Life at Clubhouse Point
Neckton (swimmers)
Benthos (bottom-dwellers)
Sea pork
Comb jelly
Seaweed
Bay anchovies
Conidium (dead man’s fingers)
Crab
Olva
Grassilaria
Sea urchins
Mollusks

16. Hummocks Channel GPS Location: N 37º 36.472” W 75º 38.671”
Total Water Depth:15ft
Photic zone depth: 1.5m
Sea Floor Sediments
Color: green, gray, black
Texture: more mud than shells
Compaction: muddy, soupy

17. Hummocks Channel Data Blue-0.0m Red-2m 1-Temperature (˚C) Yellow-3m
Depth
Temperature
Salinity DO pH
0.0m (surface)
25.6ºC
32.9 ppt
92.0 mg/l
8.2 2m
25.5ºC
92.2 mg/l
7.9 3m
91.8 mg/l
Blue-0.0m
Red-2m
Yellow-3m
1-Temperature (˚C)
2-Salinity (ppt)
3-Dissolved Oxygen (mg/L)
4-pH

18. Life in Hummocks Channel
Neckton (swimmers)
Benthos (bottom-dwellers)
Fish
Comb Jelly
Sea Lettuce
Sea Pork
Baby Crab

19. Nikawampus Creek Mud flat GPS Location: N 37º 37.648” W 75º 40.813”
Total Water Depth: 5.2ft
Photic zone depth: 25cm
Sea Floor Sediments
Color: black
Texture: mud
Compaction: soft and soupy

20. Nikawampus Creek Data Blue-0.0m 1-Temperature (˚C) Red-.5m
Depth
Temperature
Salinity DO pH
0.0m (surface)
25.7ºC
33.4 ppt
4.75 mg/l
8.0
.5m
25.6ºC
33.3 ppt
4.56 mg/l
7.9
Blue-0.0m
Red-.5m
1-Temperature (˚C)
2-Salinity (ppt)
3-Dissolved Oxygen (mg/L)
4-pH

21. Life in Nikawampus Creek
Neckton (swimmers)
Benthos (bottom-dwellers)
White perch
Blue crab
Spot
Brief squid
Black sea bass
Shrimp
Pompano
Clams

22. Comparing Surface Water Data
Temperature
Salinity
Dissolved Oxygen pH

23. Temperature Site: 1-Inlet 2-Clubhouse Point 3-Hummocks Channel
4-Nikawampus Creek

24. Salinity Site: 1-Inlet 2-Clubhouse Point 3-Hummocks Channel
4-Nikawampus Creek

25. Dissolved Oxygen Site: 1-Inlet 2-Clubhouse Point 3-Hummocks Channel
4-Nikawampus Creek

26. pH Site: 1-Inlet 2-Clubhouse Point 3-Hummocks Channel
4-Nikawampus Creek

27. Paramore Island Observations Different from Cedar Island
Tree were burned
Dry
Lake on Island
-Dried up (cracks in lake bed)
-A week prior it had more water
-Salinity was 44 or 45 and the DO was .1 which is to low for the fish to live. The fish were at the different levels around the pond indicting that the water level had dropped recently.
It’s eroding on the ocean side and depositing on the bay side
the Italian Ridge (one ancient dune)
Shaped like a drum stick
Different from Cedar Island
Maritime Forest-more vegatation
More life-insects, animals (raccoon and deer dropping seen)
Muddy ground and sand
Marsh side and shore side
Only one dune
Paramore had a very short shoreline that was not very flat

28. Cedar Island Observations Different from Paramore Island
Fish and crabs in surrounding waters
Atlantic side had more waves than bay side
Bay side was calmer and had a really strong current
Was thought to have been marsh land because of all of the oyster shells that were ancient
A lot dead horseshoe crabs from babies to full grown on the ocean side
Different from Paramore Island
Less vegetation
More shells, “a graveyard of shell”
Smaller
More dunes
Wide and round.
Birds such as seagulls and pelicans
At the ocean the shoreline was a flat beach.
Dune grass and sea grass with prickly barbs found more in the center of the island

29. Deep Sea Location
Atlantic Ocean-Gulf Stream

30. Salinity
-Around 36.5 ppt
-Higher than the highest site (Nikawampus Creek with 33.4 ppt)

31. Temperature
-Between 22-24°C
-Our sites were between 25.2°C and 25.8°C

32. pH
-Around 8.10
-Our sites were between 8 and 8.5

33. THANKS FOR A GREAT SEMESTER!!!!
HAVE A GOOD HOLIDAY!!!!