Shelby Thomas U.R. - Seagrass Transects

This past week was quite of an interesting experience for our first field work. We all went to record data and measurements for the seagrass beds in the Indian Lagoon located in Oak Hill.  We recorded data from two sites in the lagoon. All of the data goes collectively to a government runned marine program, where they have recorded theses same sites over several years to observe the change and population of seagrass overtime.

Things didn't start off to optimistically, the plug for the boat was not placed in so once the boat was released into the water, water started to pour through the whole and filling the boat. We had to rush the boat back on the trailer and let the water drain, meanwhile it was raining and had a constant rain from start to end. The water was very cold so it was a good thing we were prepared with wet suits.

In the End we collected good data and it was a successful first day and was a good learning experience.  We learned a lot of different measuring techniques, we used the quadrats to section off the seagrass and use the measured off squares to help collect data.