HTL-PIE-Survey-2002.01 Linda Deegan

Ecosystems Center MBL 7 MBL St Woods Hole MA 02543 USA

Plum Island Ecosystems LTER Program

The Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Lab 7 MBL St Woods Hole MA 02543 USA

(508) 289 7485 pie_im@mbl.edu http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/PIE/ Robert Buchsbaum additional investigator Hap Garritt additional investigator John Logan additional investigator Heather Haas additional investigator 2004 LTER PIE Plum Island Ecosystems Massachusetts Parker River Rowley River macrofauna fish crustaceans Acceptance and utilization of PIE-LTER data requires that: The Principal Investigator be sent a notice stating reasons for acquiring any data and a description of the publication intentions. The Principal Investigator of the data set be sent a copy of the report or manuscript prior to submission and be adequately cited in any resultant publications A copy of any resultant publications should be sent to: Principal Investigator Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, MA 02543 http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/PIE/data/HTL/HTL-PIE-Survey-2004.html HTL-PR-15 -70.82429309 -70.82429309 42.75789606 42.75789606 HTL-PR-16 -70.86197714 -70.86197714 42.76081412 42.76081412 HTL-PR-17 -70.86902437 -70.86902437 42.75563788 42.75563788 HTL-PR-18 -70.8862495 -70.8862495 42.76353793 42.76353793 HTL-PR-19 -70.90359836 -70.90359836 42.75692394 42.75692394 HTL-PR-20 -70.9125256 -70.9125256 42.75262433 42.75262433 HTL-PR-21 -70.91949172 -70.91949172 42.75263608 42.75263608 HTL-PR-21.5 -70.92408462 -70.92408462 42.75236466 42.75236466 HTL-PR-22 -70.92557452 -70.92557452 42.750262 42.750262 HTL-PR-24 -70.92909587 -70.92909587 42.74972247 42.74972247 HTL-PR-6(Town Landing) -70.8365313 -70.8365313 42.76236849 42.76236849 HTL-RO-7(Rowley) -70.85434584 -70.85434584 42.72584126 42.72584126 HTL-RO-9(Rowley House) HTL-SO-1(Little Neck) -70.79174444 -70.79174444 42.70161801 42.70161801 HTL-SO-10(Offshore) -70.74185558 -70.74185558 42.70544185 42.70544185 HTL-SO-11 -70.79048883 -70.79048883 42.70516169 42.70516169 HTL-SO-12 -70.811315 -70.811315 42.72664527 42.72664527 HTL-SO-13 -70.8195799 -70.8195799 42.74708127 42.74708127 HTL-SO-14 -70.81393915 -70.81393915 42.75438286 42.75438286 HTL-SO-2(Bluff) -70.78615651 -70.78615651 42.70634998 42.70634998 HTL-SO-3(Knob) -70.79906604 -70.79906604 42.73139029 42.73139029 HTL-SO-4(Nelson Island) -70.8210343 -70.8210343 42.74691643 42.74691643 HTL-SO-5(Sub Headquarters) -70.81184907 -70.81184907 42.75594527 42.75594527 2002-04-17 2002-08-20 Data Manager

The Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Lab 7 MBL St Woods Hole MA 02543 USA

(508) 289 7485 pie_im@mbl.edu http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/PIE/ Plum Island Ecosystems LTER

The Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Lab 7 MBL St Woods Hole MA 02543 USA

(508) 289 7485 pie_im@mbl.edu http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/PIE/ EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND METHODS: Macrofauna were collected at a variety of stations throughout the Plum Island Sound Estuary. Stations 1-9 represent samples collected using a 15.2 meter length beach seine and 4.8 mm (3/16 inch) mesh. Stations 10-21 represent samples collected from a small boat with a sixteen foot shrimp trawl (5/8" net with 3/16" cod end mesh). Replicate or triplicate dates represent replicate or triplicate collections for that species at that site. Anne Giblin

The Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Lab 7 MBL St Woods Hole MA 02543 USA

(508) 289 7488 agiblin@mbl.edu Lead PI Hap Garritt

The Ecosystems Center Marine Biological Lab 7 MBL St Woods Hole MA 02543 USA

(508) 289 7485 pie_im@mbl.edu Information Manager The Plum Island Ecosystems (PIE) LTER is an integrated research, education and outreach program whose goal is to develop a predictive understanding of the long-term response of watershed and estuarine ecosystems at the land-sea interface to changes in climate, land use and sea level. The principal study site is the Plum Island Sound estuary, its coupled Parker, Rowley and Ipswich River watersheds and the adjacent coastal ocean, the Gulf of Maine. The PIE LTER focuses on how several aspects of global change influence organic matter and inorganic nutrient biogeochemistry and estuarine foodwebs. The inputs of organic matter and nutrients from land, ocean and marshes interact with the external drivers (climate, land use, river discharge, sea level) to dictate the extent and degree of nutrient and organic matter processing and determine the spatial patterns of estuarine productivity and trophic structure. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants OCE-9726921, OCE-0423565. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The Plum Island Ecosystems (PIE) LTER site, is located in northeastern Massachusetts, 42.72 N, 70.85 W. The PIE LTER lies at the interface of a thinly soiled, formerly glaciated New England land mass and the highly productive Gulf of Maine. Three watersheds comprise the estuarine drainage basin: Parker (155 km2), Rowley (26 km2) and Ipswich (404 km2). The Ipswich River watershed is highly urbanized with Boston "bedroom" communities encroaching in the headwater region while the Parker is less urbanized and retains a higher proportion of forest. -71.2198 -70.7568 42.8276 42.4965 0 100 meter uid=PIE,o=lter,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org all public read HTL-PIE-Survey-2002.dat Monthly macrofauna samplings collected in the Plum Island Estuary in 2002 HTL-PIE-Survey-2002.dat 1 column , http://ecosystems.mbl.edu/PIE/data/HTL/data/HTL-PIE-Survey-2002.dat ESTUARY ESTUARY name of estuary that collection occurred name of estuary that collection occurred SAMPLE ID SAMPLE ID sample identification, Plum Island Fish with assigned number (PF ####) sample identification, Plum Island Fish with assigned number (PF ####) SAMPLENUM SAMPLENUM sample number, matches PF # for data sorting purposes sample number, matches PF # for data sorting purposes STATION ID STATION ID site research location in the estuary site research location in the estuary REP REP replicate seine or trawl, either A,B,C,D or E replicate seine or trawl, either A,B,C,D or E DATE DATE date of collection dd-mmm-yyyy TIME TIME time (24 hour) of collection hhmm DEPTH DEPTH depth of water at collection meter real DAYTIME HIGH TIDE (Boston) DAYTIME HIGH TIDE (Boston) time (24 hour) of daytime high tide in Boston, MA hhmm SECCHI SECCHI secchi depth (meters) meter real SALINITY SALINITY salinity (ppt) partsPerThousand real TEMP TEMP water temperature (C) celsius real GEAR GEAR seine (S) or trawl (T) collection S seine T trawl LENGTH OF SEINE LENGTH OF SEINE total length of seine net (m) meter real DURATION OF TRAWL DURATION OF TRAWL length of time the trawl was deployed (minutes) mm TOTAL FISH SPECIES TOTAL FISH SPECIES total number of fish species caught number real TOTAL DECAPODS TOTAL DECAPODS total number of decapods caught number real SPECIES SPECIES Genus and species name Genus and species name CODE CODE Species code (from NMFS, Woods Hole, Donald Flescher) Species code (from NMFS, Woods Hole, Donald Flescher) TOTAL # TOTAL # total number collected number real TOTAL WEIGHT TOTAL WEIGHT total weight of total # collected (g) gram real Comments Comments comments about data comments about data ratio of two quantities as parts per thousand (1:1000)