tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36928798560537994982024-02-20T23:01:19.987-08:00SeagrassSoundingsA forum for the Massachusetts Seagrass GroupTay Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946529261610350362noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-64396620465256421582021-03-05T06:49:00.000-08:002021-03-05T06:49:20.259-08:00Zosterapalooza XXX ...is coming... March 31st! ...Be there Tay Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946529261610350362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-29625308026064299222021-03-04T15:57:00.002-08:002021-03-04T15:57:59.108-08:00Find out about the future of SeagrassNet and global seagrass monitoring with the SmithsonianCome hear about the future of SeagrassNet!Remember to register for the upcoming talk:Dr. Lefcheck is currently the Tennenbaum Coordinating Scientist for the MarineGEO Network at the Smithsonian Institution and is based at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, MD, USA. He is a marine community ecologist and biodiversity scientist who has worked on a variety of coastal Tay Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946529261610350362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-27414637016069116062020-01-07T09:10:00.001-08:002020-01-07T09:10:45.191-08:00Check out this new article on our local efforts to restore eelgrass!
DURHAM, NH. (AP) - Peering over the side of his skiff anchored in the middle of New Hampshire's Great Bay, Fred Short liked what he saw.
Read the whole article here:
Scientists Struggle to Save Eelgrass from Coastal Pollution, December 23, 2019 AP news.comTay Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946529261610350362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-47898608789668868422019-08-30T06:50:00.001-07:002020-09-01T10:45:31.645-07:00BioSonics vs Divers -- a method comparison Kathryn Ford, Steve Voss and I are
happy to announce our recent publication in Estuaries and Coasts
"Reproducibility,Precision, and
Accuracy of a Hydroacoustic Method to Estimate Seagrass Canopy Height and
Percent Cover in Massachusetts"
Kathryn H. Ford, Steven
Voss and N. Tay Evans
published online yesterday in Estuaries and Coasts.
The full-text view-only version is here.
Here'sTay Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946529261610350362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-17192360942993248232019-06-12T08:07:00.001-07:002019-06-12T08:07:37.458-07:00Fred Short's former and present students at the Festschrift symposium in his honorTay Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946529261610350362noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-17065906997552146052019-06-12T07:55:00.002-07:002019-06-12T07:55:22.363-07:00NEERS Festschrift for Fred Short posted by Nedret Andrehttps://www.nedretandre.com/the-new-england-estuarine-research-society-spring-meeting-2019/Tay Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946529261610350362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-83877755160534897132018-08-28T18:00:00.000-07:002018-08-30T08:37:11.592-07:00DKP seagrass monitoring pictures
Kristen with the camera frame used to take pictures of a 1/4 m2 area at set locations throughout the bay
Tay measuring an eelgrass sample from NW Duxbury
Measuring an eelgrass sample from NW Duxbury
Another eelgrass sample from NW Duxbury
Eelgrass leaf with low wasting disease and low epiphytes
Patchy eelgrass in PKD
Tay Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946529261610350362noreply@blogger.com0Plymouth, MA, USA41.9584457 -70.66726210000001641.5801787 -71.312709100000021 42.3367127 -70.021815100000012tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-69805291183365058912018-08-20T12:34:00.001-07:002018-08-30T08:38:11.506-07:00DMF kicks off "Eelgrass week" a volunteer monitoring program
designed to sample eelgrass throughout DKP with assistance from North and South River Watershed Association and the MassBays Program. Stay tuned for updates this week.
Eelgrass monitoring stations in Duxbury Kingston and Plymouth Bays (The DKP)
Tay Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946529261610350362noreply@blogger.com0Plymouth, MA, USA41.9584457 -70.66726210000001641.5801787 -71.312709100000021 42.3367127 -70.021815100000012tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-35420957866043024732018-03-06T06:38:00.000-08:002018-03-06T06:38:51.097-08:00World Seagrass Month
Happy World
Seagrass Month!
Seagrass is an underwater, flowering plant that
can be found in relatively protected and healthy bays, with 60 species
worldwide. Seagrass meadows are a critical habitat for young finfish
and crustaceans, help protect our coastlines from storms
and rising tides, and also soak up nutrients and bacteria, helping to keep our
seawater clean. Two species of seagrassAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216751991685575984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-81285797601701836532018-02-22T12:38:00.001-08:002018-02-23T09:31:34.226-08:00Expanded Eelgrass Meadows in Swampscott
On August 23, 2017 the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (MA DMF) Habitat Team set out for Swampscott Harbor in search of eelgrass. Armed with a Humminbird acoustic sonar transducer, an underwater video camera, and the DEP 2012 aerial photo-interpretation eelgrass maps, we anticipated finding a bed similar to the size and footprint of the Swampscott Harbor mooring field, where DEP Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216751991685575984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-87164724638554359722017-09-13T07:00:00.000-07:002017-09-13T07:00:50.266-07:00Eelgrass restoration and genetic experiment in Salem Sound 2017
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✔ 1/2 acre of eelgrass planted
After great transplanting success in Boston Harbor and Salem Sound under the HUB3 mitigation project, MarineFisheries is at it again. In early April 2017, divers from MarineFisheries (DMF) and Northeastern
University (NEU) began the spring Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07216751991685575984noreply@blogger.com1Middle Ground, Salem, MA 01970, USA42.52792599482818 -70.85455633408201942.504522994828179 -70.894896834082019 42.551328994828182 -70.81421583408202tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-90859750126174071162015-08-17T07:56:00.000-07:002015-08-17T07:56:22.670-07:00Eelgrass Volunteer Event with Thompson Island Green Ambassadors
On the morning of July 14, 2015 the MarineFisheries
habitat team arrived at Thompson Island in Boston Harbor with nearly 4,000
freshly harvest eelgrass shoots and a boatload of planting equipment. The Outward Bound's Green Ambassadors were
eager and interested to learn about eelgrass restoration efforts. These
high-schoolers have been participating in a variety of terrestrial habitatJill Carr - DMFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04444234171606936417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-40976119282052445482014-11-25T12:57:00.000-08:002014-11-25T12:57:03.813-08:002014 HUB3 Eelgrass Restoration Field SeasonThe 2014 field season was a busy one for the HUB3 Eelgrass Restoration Project. After putting the finishing touches on the Hubline Eelgrass Restoration 2013 Progress Report, we were ready for the annual monitoring at six restoration sites and four reference beds in Salem Sound and Boston Harbor. We also did some additional planting at two of our existing sites in order to increase the total Wes Dukes - DMFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10467635654905128791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-81294663013376325122014-11-13T13:48:00.001-08:002014-11-13T14:01:17.805-08:00
Conservation
moorings as a tool to minimize boating impacts to eelgrass: Observations from
Massachusetts Presented at the Restore America's Estuaries conference in Washington DC, November 1-6
L. Berry Engler, K. Uiterwyk, T. Evans
A few highlights from the presentation:
Mooring scars in eelgrass meadow. 2014. LightHawk flight
Tay Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946529261610350362noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-17593445658387139472014-09-15T09:06:00.000-07:002014-09-16T12:35:52.989-07:00Incorporating volunteers in eelgrass restoration: Another successful event in Boston HarborOn the beautiful summer morning of August 27th,
2014 the MarineFisheries
eelgrass team met with eight of the New England Aquarium Live Blue Ambassador’s
staff and teen volunteers at the Winthrop boat ramp in Boston Harbor. The event was our 4th volunteer effort of its kind, where local
environmental groups help prepare eelgrass planting units for divers to
transplant at restoration sites.
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The 2014 eelgrass field season is well underway and it is
shaping up to be a busy one. The weather
has not been very cooperative though we are finally starting to see some warmer
temperatures and clear skies. Having
mostly completed our planting for the Hub3 project over the last 3 field
seasons, the focus is now shifting to mostly monitoring. But we do have a few more planting Wes Dukes - DMFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10467635654905128791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-42425932294467298902014-04-14T13:13:00.000-07:002014-04-15T07:29:32.991-07:00Eelgrass smothered by spring algae bloom in West Falmouth Harbor<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Tay Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946529261610350362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-13991586869365605772013-08-30T13:47:00.000-07:002013-08-30T13:47:04.318-07:00Restoration in Boston Harbor: Volunteer Event at New England Aquarium
On the unseasonably chilly morning of August 27th,
Wes and Jill hit the water early to harvest 4,000 eelgrass shoots from a small
cove in Nahant Harbor. The bed looked great: tall, thick and dense with abundant
reproductive shoots. When enough plants were harvested, divers stored them in
covered totes and steamed by boat to the New England Aquarium’s education
building, where 19 volunteers from Jill Carr - DMFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04444234171606936417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-56427822458627448862013-07-11T14:37:00.001-07:002013-07-11T14:37:33.862-07:00MarineFisheries Hub3 eelgrass restoration mid-project progress report, June 2013
MarineFisheries Seagrass staff recently completed a mid-project status report detailing the background, methods, preliminary results and discussion of our eelgrass planting project in Salem Sound and Boston Harbor, funded as partial mitigation for the Hubline Pipeline impacts to eelgrass.
You can read the full report on the Fisheries Habitat Program page of the MarineFisheries website.&Tay Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946529261610350362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-51918986057999465102013-07-07T07:24:00.000-07:002013-07-07T07:25:44.283-07:00Not balloons, Man-o-war in Buzzards BayMan-of-wars are found, sometimes in groups of 1,000 or more, floating in warm waters throughout the world's oceans. They have no independent means of propulsion and either drift on the currents or catch the wind with their pneumatophores. To avoid threats on the surface, they can deflate their air bags and briefly submerge. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/invertebrates/Tay Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946529261610350362noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-64684203653024678162013-07-01T09:38:00.003-07:002013-07-02T09:53:51.332-07:00Spring recap
Jill Carr measuring canopy height at a Nahant reference bed.
Despite all the bad weather that we've had, it was a very busy and productive spring for the MarineFisheries HUB3 eelgrass restoration project. Our work has shifted from Salem Sound to Boston Harbor, and the spring was spent planting and monitoring at six sites that were selected last fall. The sites that were Wes Dukes - DMFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10467635654905128791noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-58655132320216051272013-06-26T09:03:00.002-07:002013-07-02T12:59:24.524-07:00Creepy oyster toadfish lurking beneath the moorings in West Falmouth Harbor. Looks like he could use some chapstick.
Tay Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946529261610350362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-44603287943903906582013-05-06T14:06:00.000-07:002013-07-02T13:00:57.004-07:00Declining density and extent of eelgrass at Salem Sound and Nahant could be due to storm damage
Hi! Back in the water again after a long winter in the office...
Nahant
So far we have been to the Nahant meadow twice this spring. The first time in April we came to retrieve a hobo temp/light monitor and harvest for plantings in Boston Harbor outer islands. Notes from August 2012 at that site indicate that plants were tall and lush, 75% cover and approximately 80shts/m2 withTay Evanshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15946529261610350362noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3692879856053799498.post-81846745846226648242013-03-07T08:45:00.000-08:002013-07-02T13:02:04.738-07:00Mooring video, Salem Sound Under Water lecture series and more!
Greetings from the MarineFisheries eelgrass team! Like many of you, much of our winter work
involves crunching data from the previous field season and disseminating our
findings in reports and public presentations. I
recently gave a presentation as part of the “ Salem Sound Underwater” lecture
series hosted by Salem Sound Coastwatch (http://www.salemsound.org/)
The talk focused on Jill Carr - DMFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04444234171606936417noreply@blogger.com0