USM-GCRL Sensor Recorder Deployments on June 11, 12, 15, and 22, 2016

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MGFB has been working cooperatively on a USM/GCRL project headed up by Dr. Scott Milroy. A dozen data loggers were deployed in the Gulf to measure Dissolved Oxygen, Temperature, and Salinity, every 15 minutes. Hopefully the data will give insight to mitigate and determine sources of hypoxic (low oxygen) events. The first two recorders were deployed on June 11 in FH-13 and FH-7. The next one was deployed in FH-10 on June 12. A Scuba Regulator malfunctioned and prevented further deployments that day. On June 15, two more units were deployed in FH-3 and FH-14 following the FH-3 Fish Dice Deployments. Also noted on this trip was a large area of dead menhaden that went for miles, possibly due to the menhaden industry. On June 22, the remaining 7 units were deployed taking advantage of some very calm weather. Worth noting was visual hypoxic conditions on FH-3 where not a single fish was observed and the only life seen was a single dead crab. The observations on FH-14 were similar, however some juvenile red snapper were seen upon first encountering the structure. Problems finding Bay Balls in FH-8 led to deploying the unit on Concrete instead. Also, the Dive Computer failed late on June 22 preventing retrieval of temp data for that day. Below are videos of each deployment as well as a table of the data and a link to the July 14, 2016 MGFB Report on the project.
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Date-Time

Site

Description

Depth

Temp

Video - Coords

2016June11 8:10am

FH-13

Barataria Bay

75'/88'

68°F

https://youtu.be/NU4haxyA46E

29°59.605 88°30.361

2016June11 11:48am

FH-7

Jumbo Barge

116/130

69°F

https://youtu.be/pu7-1Cakt5Y

29°36.870 88°24.593

2016June12 2pm

FH-10

CableOne Antenna

11'/13'

84°F

https://youtu.be/QU-Pmw_s7vM

30°15.889 88°38.963

2016June15 12:15pm

FH-3

Chevron Boat

39'/45'

69°F

https://youtu.be/-qXaxSnmbxs

30°09.935 88°45.002

2016June15 1:11pm

FH-14

My Wife II

30'/34'

68°F

https://youtu.be/cK3_m0VZ9xU

30°12.403 88°49.844

2016June22 7am

FH-2

St. Elmo

54'/62'

 

https://youtu.be/MH9-IYALzxc

30°04.820 88°33.278

2016June22 9am

FH-1

Ole Faithful

58'/69'

 

https://youtu.be/x8X03Nega4c

30°02.276 88°36.488

2016June22 10:30am

FH-6

Reef Balls

60'/65'

 

https://youtu.be/tbT_TfIG7UM

30°02.063 88°41.691

2016June22 11:45am

FH-12

Frank Taylor

40'/45'

 

https://youtu.be/YjNpsA7hMf4

30°02.886 88°45.0483

2016June22 12:30pm

FH-4

Ship Is Barge

27'/31'

 

https://youtu.be/MGmGxLxpqoc

30°10.142 88°54.005

2016June22 1:30pm

Cat Island

Cat Is Wreck

11'/12'

 

https://youtu.be/rJFJkYgQpR0

30°12.152 89°04.912

2016June22 2:30pm

FH-8

Concrete

11'/12'

 

https://youtu.be/FMj-ByzGwcA

30°16.074 88°57.651