Seagrass Sleuthing

Sled tracks through the Zostera.
Karissa and Deb participated in the Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve survey of seagrass distribution this past month. In addition to helping out, we also collected tissue for genetic analyses of the native Zostera marina and the non-native Zostera japonica.
- A tem effort
- Heading out to the shore
- Last minute instructions
- Padilla Bay
- Padilla Bay at low tide
- Sampling in the high zone
- Padilla Bay
- Sled tracks through the Zostera.
- Padilla Bay
- Sampling
- Sled tracks
- Sampling seagrass density
- Blue skies, green seas
- A quadrat
- Seagrass sleuths
- Collecting tissue
- Collecting tissue
- Here comes the tide!
- More segrass
- Snow at a distance
- A glimpse of the mountains
- From the shore
- Line 3 from the shore
- Heading out
- Transect lines
- Transect lines
- Other teams at a distance