SNAP SHOT DAY 2010

For the fourth year in a row, Diana and I participated in the annual Coastal Watershed Council's Snap Shot Day, with our good friend P J Webb. As usual we had a blast. For once the weather was beautiful!

Snap Shot Day is always the first Saturday in May. Fortunately for us, MBNMS/CWC researchers give us refresher training on the equipment, the data required, and the locations of the sampling sites. We generally do the same four sites each year. We did do a new one this year because of water quality concerns in one of our creeks. The CWC's website, www.coastal-watershed.org/, will give you a more complete idea of what Snap Shot Day is all about.

Below is a copy of our date sheet for each individual site which we fully complete by the end of the day:

We are also asked to document our work photographically for their files. Being the team photographer, I added that task to my other duties. I just couldn't resist adding a little humor to the process by including captions for each photograph I sent them. Each caption is proceeded by the location code, i.e. 310-SANSI-41, etc.

I hope you enjoy this clip: