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Hi, my name is Deniz Bertuna.
Basically what I have been doing out here working alongside with the oyster
restoration project:
I am interning doing biodiversity
monitoring. So Jesse Bean, the other intern, and I have been coming out at 2-week
intervals
with our quadrats. We have been laying it out over the cultch throughout the whole
site
- which goes east to west - to determine what biodiversity
has been changing. Essentially, what we do
when we lay it out: we come out with clickers, notepads,
what have you to estimate what has been changing.
So you can see here with periwinkles, on the underside there are some mussels.
We are going to have oysters,
but this one is already dead, so we call that a 'box'
- which is a different category. We have
'spat',
which is the main reason why we are out.
There are also anemones,
clams, amphipods,
and everything in between. As the season has been progressing,
we have been seeing a huge increase in the spat. Typically we are gonna have
100 oysters to 10 spat - so a 10:1 ratio.
But as [the season has] been changing, were more close to [a] 1:1 [ratio],
which is what we like to see.