28Apr09

Multiple Long Island Sound (LIS) Sites

Scouting of sites identified by aerial photos / evaluation for potential restoration. Sites identified included Horton Pt (Southold), 67 Steps (Greenport), Rocky Pt (East Marion). Also visited Terry's Pt restoration site to evaluate expansion of patches and potential for future restoration.

8May09

Great Gull and Plum Islands

Scouting of sites identified by aerial photos / evaluation for potential restoration. Identified a suitable location at Great Gull Island; photos are from this location.

14July09

Multiple Long Island Sound (LIS) Sites

Collected 2000 shoots from Mulford Point. Planted 500 shoots per site at Rocky Point, 67 Steps and Hortons Point.

21July09

Great Gull Island (North)

Collected 1500 shoots from South Dumpling (Fisher's Island). Planted at Great Gull Island (North).

29July09

Multiple Long Island Sound (LIS) Sites

Monitored Terry's Point and Hortons Point plantings. Both sites looked great. Terry's Pt patches continue to expand and become more dense, while newest plantings from last fall are just beginning to coalesce. Hortons pt plantings look great since planted 2 weeks prior; minimal to no loss observed.

17Aug09

Plum Island (North)

Scouting of sites identified by aerial photos / evaluation for potential restoration. Found a suitable planting location off of Radiator Beach on the North side of Plum Island.

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18Aug09

Plum Island (Radiator Beach)

Collected 300 shoots from Dumpling Island (Fisher's Island). Planted 260 shoots at 4 stations along a transect at Radiator Beach. Because this location lacks rocks for anchoring plants, we tried a new method using biodegradable "rocks" made of burlap bags filled with sand. We also conducted a free-planting to compare methods. Did not take photos because bottom became too stirred up after planting and camera couldn't focus.

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25Aug09

Plum Island (Radiator Beach)

Monitoring of last weeks plantings. All plantings looked great, although may have lost a few shoots in free-planting due to hermit crab activity.

24Sep09

Great Gull Island (North)

Second planting at Great Gull Island (North). 2000 shoots were collected from Mulford Point for the planting.

2Oct09

Horton's Pt

Collected 2000 shoots from Mulford Point. Planted at Horton's Point. Monitored old plantings as well. Some shoots were lost, but remaining shoots looked bright green and healthy.

6Oct09

Plum Island (Radiator Beach)

Monitoring of plantings. Set up planting transect line and added two deeper stations. This was because the previous deep stations looked the best so far, and want to determine the max depth before light limitation. Lots of fish were utilizing the plantings, including juvenile sea bass, flounder and scup.

6Oct09

Gull Island (North)

Monitoring of plantings. Some loss appears to have occurred due to tidal movement, though this was expected at this high current site. Those shoots remaining look healthy and anchored.

22Oct09

Gull Island (North)

Collected 1800 shoots from Mulford Point. Planted 1100 shoots at Gull Island (North).

5Nov09

Terry's Point

Planted 700 shoots at Terry's Point near old plantings in 8-9 feet of water, further into cove. Monitored older plantings. Oldest patches (2007) look amazing; very dense and spreading. 2008 plantings are established and starting to form small patches.

16Nov09

Plum Island and Gull Island

Monitored Gull Island (North) and Plum Island (Radiator Beach) plantings. Both sites looked great. Gull Island had a very high current as usual, making photography difficult.

18Nov09

Gull Island (North)

Collected 1200 shoots from Mulford Point. planted 750 at Gull Island (North). Also monitored previous plantings, looking great. High current and low visibility made planting conditions sub-optimal.

4Dec09

Terry's Point

Collected 1000 shoots from Mulford Point. Planted all at Terry's Point.

19Mar10

67 Steps

Monitored 2009 plantings. Shoots were located, but were very small and hiding under large amounts of algae.

2Apr10

Terrys Pt

Monitored original plantings as well as newest plantings from fall 2009. Some of the newest plantings were lost due to sand movement (accretion and erosion), but those remaining appeared healthy and stable. Old plantings have coelesced into 3 large patches, with 2 of these patches quickly growing together.

2Apr10

Rocky Pt

Unable to locate plantings,due to the growth of algae and the loss of the marker buoy. Need to return closer to summer when plants will be larger and easier to locate among algae.

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14Apr10

Plum Island (Radiator Beach)

First monitoring visit of the year; monitored sand bag plantings. Plantings looked great. Very little loss over the winter. Photos were poor due to the very poor visibility, so they were not included here.

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21Apr10

Gull Island (North)

First monitoring visit of the year, looking at last year's plantings. Shoots looked great, although were hard to locate at first with all of the macroalgae. See video

21Apr10

Plum Island (Radiator Beach)

Monitored sand bag plantings and planned for new upcoming plantings. Plantings looked healthy and green. Brown macroalgae was attached to the oldest blades, but new blades were clean.

17May10

Plum Island (Radiator Beach)

Collected 360 shoots from Mulford Pt. Planted 360 shoots using a modified version of the sand bag plantings (30 bags/12 shoots each). 12 shoots were sewn into burlap disks prior to dive, then the burlap sand bags were placed over discs as anchors. Plants were from Mulford Pt. Planting area was between second and third station. Bags were placed 1m apart in a grid pattern. Also monitored older plantings.

21May10

Horton's Pt

Collected 60 shoots from Mulford Pt. Planted 5 sand bags with discs at Horton's Pt. (60 shoots total) in a sand patch as a test among rock plantings from last year. Last years plantings looked good, although some looked scoured and some buried under macroalgae.

15Jun10

Gull Island (North)

Monitored 2009 plantings. Only a few of the plantings were located as macroalgae growth made locating them very difficult.

15Jun10

Plum Island (Radiator Beach)

Monitored new and old sand bag plantings and planned for new upcoming plantings. New plantings looked good, very little loss and appeared healthy. Old plantings beginning to put on new growth.

21Jun10

Plum Island (Radiator Beach)

Deployed sand bags for later planting on the east side of the transect line.

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23-25Jun10

Plum Island (Radiator Beach)

Collected 2400 shoots from South Dumpling Island (Fisher's). Began sewing discs on boat while divers spaced sand bags at 1m spacing grid. 66 plantings were placed between the shallow and mid plot, 66 between the mid and deep plot, and another 66 were between the deep plot and the marker buoy. Also monitored old plantings; all stations/depths looked great, especially deepest.

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7Jul10

67 Steps

Monitored plantings and deployed temperature logger. Plants look great; put on significant length since spring. Shoots are very long and have put on several laterals.

7Jul10

Horton's Pt

Monitored plantings and deployed temperature logger. Plantings looked great, especially new sand bag plantings. Put on significant growth since planting (4-8cm roughly). Only a few shoots were lost. Old plantings looked good as well.

13Jul10

Plum Island (Radiator Beach)

Deployed and placed 100 sand bags to the west of the transect line for later planting.

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16Jul10

Plum Island (Radiator Beach)

Planted 100 units, 50 on the shallow end, 50 on the deep end west of the transect line, all spaced at 1m. Also monitored older plantings. All look good. Found a cluster of squid eggs on one of the older plantings. Plants were collected on 15Jul from Mulford Pt.

22-23Jul10

Plum Island (Radiator Beach)

Deployed and placed 70 more sand bags for later planting. Labeled planted areas with numbered stakes.

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27Jul10

Plum Island (Radiator Beach)

Planted 75 units (brought 5 more bags); added to the mid/deep area continuing east. Plants were collected on 26Jul from Long Beach, Orient.

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30Jul10

Plum Island (Radiator Beach)

Monitoring of plantings. Continued to look healthy with minimal-no loss.

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30Aug10

Plum Island (Radiator Beach)

Monitoring of plantings. All plantings continued to look promising. Some of the bags on the oldest plantings had broken, as expected. plants beneath continued to look great, as they are rooted and spreading.

23Sep10

Plum Island (Radiator Beach)

Monitoring of plantings. Continued to look healthy with minimal-no loss.

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8Oct10

Plum Island (Radiator Beach)

Monitoring of plantings.Continued to look healthy with minimal-no loss.

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22Nov10

67 Steps

Monitoring of plantings and retrieval of temperature loggers; unable to locate 67 steps logger. Plantings looked very good; growing into small patches.

22Nov10

Horton's Pt

Monitoring of old rock plantings and sand bag plantings from spring. Unfortunately, many shoots were lost since last visit, likely because of sand accretion and burial. Only a few shoots remained, but these looked healthy. A scale up in the spring may be necessary.