Boat Ride

Today we got up before the sun to get ready for our boat ride. We went out on the boat at about 6 AM to collect data about the temperature and conductivity of the water at different locations using the Loggers and GPS. It was rough waters and not everyone did so well with the boat rocking, but we collected important data for our projects. Alison took pictures of the coast line, Ali collected water samples, and I checked for changes in temperature as we traveled along the coast. When we got back we still had quite a day ahead of us.

After the boat we went back to the house to work on some data analysis.  We were looking at the changes in salinity and temperature. The goal is to see if we can identify groundwater plumes. I was working on creating an attribute table which would show all the necessary information and mapping out the points of the data which we gathered. One positive outcome was that we saw lower levels of conductivity in the harbor. This was expected because there is a freshwater outlet there. This tells us that the Loggers were working properly. We had a very good day!!