Little Lagoon SW

Little Lagoon

Gulf Shores, Alabama, United States

Site 4 is at a pier owned by Greg Luce and near the residence in the Bon Secour Wildlife Refuge home of LLPS Board Member Chan West. There is almost no development pressure in this end of the lagoon. Water quality overall is quite good here likely due to almost no development in the BNWR. Spring and Fall Diatom blooms here can be quite heavy and the toxic Dinoflagellate Karlodinium seems to like this end of Little Lagoon.

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Dennis Hatfield

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weather: Partly Cloudy; wind_speed (mph): 5-10; wind direction: North; baro (mmHg): 762; tide: Incoming; Secchi on bottom. 30 ltr.; .05ml sample. Also noted 2 raphidophyte; 1 foram; 1 fungal spore; 3 poss unknown dino's (1 ciliate?); crypto/chlorophytes present.

10 May 11:30 by Dennis Hatfield

weather: Partly Cloudy; wind_speed (mph): 10-15; wind direction: South East; baro (mmHg): 759.46; tide: Incoming; 10 ltr.; .05ml sample. Also noted poss egg; zoo fecal pellet; 1 unknown dino; 1 raphidophyte; very small cyano chains and probable crypto and chlorophytes present.

26 Apr 11:30 by Dennis Hatfield

weather: Partly Cloudy; wind_speed (mph): 10-15; wind direction: North West; baro (mmHg): 763.78; tide: Incoming; Secchi on bottom. 20 ltr.;.05ml sample. Also noted 2 probable egg; unknown dino; 2 pine pollen; 4 merismopedia; 3 unknown zoo; 11 chlorophytes; approx. 40 clustered unknowns; 1 mesodinium rubrum.

12 Apr 11:30 by Dennis Hatfield

weather: Cloudy; wind_speed (mph): 10-15; wind direction: East; baro (mmHg): 763.52; tide: Incoming; Secchi on bottom. 20 ltr.; .05ml sample. Also noted 2 pine pollen; 1 unknown zoo; 1 tintinid; poss. crypto and chlorophytes present.

29 Mar 11:30 by Dennis Hatfield

weather: Partly Cloudy; wind_speed (mph): 5-10; wind direction: West; baro (mmHg): 766.57; tide: Incoming; Secchi on bottom. 10 ltr.; .05ml sample. Also noted 1 pine pollen; 3 nauplii; 1 (300/ltr.) surirella.

15 Mar 11:30 by Dennis Hatfield

weather: Partly Cloudy; wind_speed (mph): 5-10; wind direction: North; baro (mmHg): 766.83; tide: Incoming; Secchi on bottom. Probable bad DO reading. 10 ltr.; .05ml sample. 1 unknown dino; 1 unknown diatom.

01 Mar 11:30 by Dennis Hatfield

weather: Partly Cloudy; wind_speed (mph): 5-10; wind direction: West; baro (mmHg): 764.03; tide: Incoming; Secchi on bottom. 10 LTR.; .05ml sample. Also noted 1 medusae; possible crypto/chlorophytes and rapidophytes present.

24 Feb 11:30 by Dennis Hatfield

weather: Most Cloudy; wind_speed (mph): 10-15; wind direction: East; baro (mmHg): 760.22; tide: Incoming; Secchi on bottom. 10ltr.;.05ml sample. Also noted poss. egg. Possible crypto/chlorophytes present.

01 Feb 11:30 by Dennis Hatfield

weather: Sunny; wind_speed (mph): 0-5; wind direction: South; baro (mmHg): 759.71; tide: Incoming; Secchi on bottom. 10 ltrs. filtered; .05 ml sample. Also noted possible cilliates; and 10+ fast moving; small(5-10um) possible dinoflagellates. 4 rows counted then scan.

18 Jan 11:30 by Dennis Hatfield

weather: Sunny; wind_speed (mph): 5-10; wind direction: West; baro (mmHg): 758.7; tide: Outgoing; Secchi on bottom. Also noted 1 cilliate; 1 poss. egg; poss. crypto/chlorophytes present; 1 probable Surirella.

06 Jan 11:30 by Dennis Hatfield