Notes From the Field: First cold snap

by Randall

We had to break out our neoprene waders this week for the first cold snap of the year! The picture doesn’t do it justice, since the sunshine gives a false indication of warmth. Meagan, Ryan, and I shivered our way through setting up 20 plots (out of 80!) for a new marsh experiment.

Thankfully all of the exertion of digging and sieving helped us warm up a bit.  In the process of sieving lots of mud to remove any plant roots and rhizomes, we came across a few interesting items –

1. Many small crown conchs that apparently wanted to avoid the cold, and

2. A few large and interesting (but as yet unidentified) worms that we haven’t seen before. We’ll be out digging again tomorrow and will get a picture of them this time!

Our thoughts go out to everyone dealing with far more than just cold in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.

– Randall

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