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June 28, 2007
   
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Enhancement of Important Bottom Sediments for American Lobster and Other Marine Species in Massachusetts Bay

Video Clips (MPG format - may take a while to download)
divers working on reef lobster and cunner on reef
Divers working on the reef
(4,963 Kb)		 Cunner and lobster living on the reef (3,812 Kb)


Sediment Collectors (click on a thumbnail for a higher resolution)
getting collector rocks getting collector rocks rock sorting collector pre-deployment
rocks into collector settlement collectors deploying collector deploying collector
deploying collector underwater collector underwater susan t divers in for collectors
collector after 2 months collector covered for retrieval retrieving divers retrieving collector
sorting collector collector after 2 months group study collector critters

Suction Sampling
suction sampling 2005 suction sampling 2005 suction sampling 2005 suction sampling 2005
yoy on finger      

Reef Construction and Surveys
rocks at quarry rocks ready for loading dump scow arrival of a reef
getting ready to deploy dump scow on site cold dive gear in march one of the reefs
welcome to the reef reef rocks divers survey reef
dviers survey reef dviers on reef survey diver
another reef deployed dump scow on site F/V Susan T working divers survey another reef
smaller reef rocks divers on reef diver on reef  

Reef Monitoring
diver swath diver swath diver swath diver recording data
rolling up tape end of transect quads diver quads
transect tape diver over rocks reef
cunner in the rocks cunner in the rocks diver swath going up

Fish Tagging Study
deploying traps retrieving traps processing fish tagging fish
tagged fish holding fish tank tagged cunner  

Maps
final 3 sites site 29 multibeam image of reef  

Other Field Work
boston lighthouse near site 29 collecting slope data collecting slope data on sites collecting substrate data
collecting substrate data collecting video data current direction meter dimond design decorator crab
diving in boston in winter dmf boat dmf divers good reef substrate
lobster lumpfish moonsnail natural reef
natural reef natural reef quahog retrieving current direction meter
sea scallop seastar asterias skate survival suit testing
temp buoys marking potential site voss measures collecting quadrat data quadrat sampling
fig sponge sponge diversity crumb of bread sponge crab embrace in sponge
decorator crab dmf divers dmf boat privateer deploying temp monitor

 

 
 

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