Field Notes

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Mayberry: 2024-04-25 10:15:00 (DOY 116)
Author: Kyle Delwiche
Others: Michael Delwiche

Summary: We installed 10 more porewater sippers in the non-vegetated area, and sampled existing sippers.

We arrived at the site around 10:15am on a beautiful clear day. Our goal was to install 10 more porewater sippers in the non-vegetated area in front of the tower, and to sample the existing sippers. We were able to extract samples from all 5 recently-installed sippers in the non-vegetated area (data below). New sippers were installed at 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 cm depth (2 of each). Prior to pushing the sipper into the sediment I pulled surface water into the sipper to remove air. After pushing sipper down to desired depth I pushed 60 mLs of surface water into the sipper to "develop" it.

All installed sippers have 2 color bands. The band closest to the sediment is the color for that profile, and the band closest to the top designates the depth. Yellow = 10cm, red = 20cm, white = 30 cm, black = 40 cm, and green = 50 cm. "open" profiles are those in non-vegetated areas, "veg" are those in vegetated areas.

After finishing work in the non-vegetated area we returned to the boardwalk and sampled the sippers installed in the vegetated areas. All sippers that I previously developed were still working, but some of the non-developed sippers are clogged and need to be replaced on a future visit.

We left the site around 1:30.

open-red-yellow, 5.70 mS, 19.8C
open-red-red, 6.92 mS, 19.1C
open-red-white, 7.94 mS, 19.7C
open-red-blue, 7.70 mS, 18.8C
open-red-green, 6.35 mS, 18.7C
surface, 1.93 mS, 20.1C
veg-blue-yellow, 11.15 mS, 22.4C
veg-blue-red, 10.31 mS, 22.0C
veg-blue-white, 8.96 mS, 21.8C
veg-blue-black, 10.43 mS, 23.5C
veg-blue-green, 9.45 mS, 22.5C
veg-blue-black, 9.96 mS, 23.4C, repeat to check first reading
veg-blue-white, 8.80 mS, 21.7C, repeat to check first reading
veg-black-yellow, 7.16 mS, 24.2C
veg-black-red, , , clogged
veg-black-white, , , clogged
veg-black-black, 10.55 mS, 24.2C
veg-black-green, 6.55 mS, 22.1
veg-red-yellow, , , clogged
veg-red-red, , , clogged
veg-red-white, , , clogged
veg-red-black, , , clogged
veg-red-green, 6.82 mS, 23.6C

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