Aerial and Field SAV Observations

Greetings SAV friends and colleagues!  I hope you are all having a good and productive summer.  However, unlike last year when we were all talking about how wonderfully cool June was, we just experienced the complete opposite this year – it was one heck of a June and I can’t remember one when it was [...]

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We have completed the 2009 SAV aerial survey, and with one heck of a lot of luck in the MD Coastal Bays stuff just before the nor’easter hit.
Weather remained our major obstacle during the last month and a half which necessitated a continued 24/7 assessment of weather and water conditions and a contractor ready to [...]

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September’s weather was a bit more favorable for us to fly but still far from perfect. The winds were better that what we had for several weeks, but the tides were still higher than predicted due to local winds.
We took advantage of the few good days with the right tide, wind and sun angle to [...]

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The SAV aerial survey has had a bad bout of the summer doldrums due to some really lousy weather as well as uncooperative tide conditions.  Once the tides started getting back to normal in mid-July, the weather became especially troublesome with a lot of hot and hazy atmospheric conditions.  And to top this off August [...]

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Bob Orth, VIMS
Greetings SAV friends and colleagues! I hope you are all having a good and productive summer.
The 2009 SAV annual monitoring began in late May. We were quite successful in getting excellent imagery of the SAV beds along the eastern shore bayside from just below Cape Charles up to and including Bloodsworth Island. [...]

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JAMES RIVER UPPER MAINSTEM (CB Segments JMSTF, JMSOH, APPTF, CHKOH)
(Flight lines 154A, B, 158A, B, 159A, B, 162, 163, 164; flown Aug. 18, 19; Quads 125, 126, 135, 136, 204 and 207).
SAV remains absent along the mainstem James from below the mouth of the Chickahominy River to Richmond.  However, we have again noted SAV in [...]

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Bob Orth, VIMS (quads listed in post)
Ken Moore and I made a reconnaissance of the freshwater SAV’s in Virginia’s trib on Aug. 5 using a light aircraft so we could cover much of the area. We flew as close to low tide as possible so we could see the full extent of the SAV’s
We first [...]

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Bob Orth, VIMS
Greetings SAV friends and colleagues!
The 2008 SAV annual monitoring is in full swing and we have made significant progress in acquiring the imagery for the lower and middle portions of the bay as well as the coastal bays. These surveys cover those parts of the bay dominated by eelgrass and widgeongrass. This has [...]

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Bob Orth, VIMS (Quads 172, 174, 175)
Brief report on eelgrass observations made by JJ Orth on July 1, 2008, in Chincoteague Bay.
We departed Greenbackville at approximately 1000 hrs heading north to Mills Island in MD. The survey was very qualitative and I had a limited amount of time to visit as many sites as possible. [...]

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